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HC3 Case Study

Medium Enterprise Government Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise government company is based on a January 2019 survey of HC3 customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“It just simplified things, especially for initial setup and growth.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select HC3:

Solved the following operational challenges after deploying HC3:
- Enabled virtualization without complexity
- Reduced time spent managing Infrastructure
- Improved availability of critical workloads
- Improved scalability of Infrastructure
- Improved disaster recovery
Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:
- For Infrastructure Refresh (replacing aging hardware)

Use Case

Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
- Hypervisor – VMware
- Dell Servers / SAN
- EMC
- Nutanix
- Simplivity
- VMware VSAN
- VxRail
Has 2 IT personnel responsible for infrastructure.
Runs 75-99 Virtual Machines on HC3.

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with HC3:

Rated the following HC3 capabilities in terms of how they differentiated from the competition:
- Scalability: very differentiated
- Ease of implementation: very differentiated
- Ease of use: very differentiated
Sees the following as the biggest benefits of Scale Computing HC3:
- Ease of use
- Reliability
Reduced the time their IT staff spends managing infrastructure by 10-24% after deploying HC3.

HC3 Customer Testimonial

Ease of use, allowing less time spent on training for a new product, and more time to do our other job duties!

— Erik Sheldon, System Administrator, KSBJ Educational Foundation

Scale Computing Platform Customer Research

What are your top drivers for purchasing Scale Computing Platform?

Infrastructure Refresh – replacing aging hardware	85%
Support business growth expectations or new business initiatives	46%
Reduce Operational Costs	43%
Support higher uptime SLAs for critical workloads	26%
Hypervisor Licensing Renewal	20%
Meet increasing RPO and RTO SLAs	8%

HC3 Case Study

Kensington School

Introduction

This case study of Kensington School is based on an April 2017 survey of HC3 customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Less time spent managing the VM infrastructure.”

Challenges

Realized the following operational challenges by deploying HC3:
- Enabled virtualization without complexity
- Reduced time spent managing Infrastructure
- Improved availability of critical workloads
- Improved scalability of Infrastructure
- Improved disaster recovery
- Solved single vendor support of Infrastructure
- Reduced IT operating costs
Purchased their HC3 system for the following reasons:
- Infrastructure Refresh (replacing aging hardware)
- Hypervisor Licensing Renewal
- Reduce operational costs

Use Case

Purchased HC3 over the following vendors:
- Hypervisor – VMware
- Hypervisor – Microsoft Hyper-V
- Nutanix
Has 2 IT personnel responsible for infrastructure.
Runs 10-24 Virtual Machines on HC3.

Results

Rated the following HC3 capabilities in terms of how differentiated they from the competition:
- Single vendor support: extremely differentiated
- Scalability: extremely differentiated
- Reliability: very differentiated
- Ease of implementation: extremely differentiated
- Ease of use: extremely differentiated
Sees the following as the biggest benefits of Scale Computing HC3:
- Ease of use
- Single vendor support
Reduced the time their IT staff spends managing infrastructure by 10-24% after deploying HC3.

HC3 Customer Testimonial

So far I am very impressed with everything, including the support.

— Jenny Newcomb, IT Director, Alliedstaffing.com

Operational Challenges Solved By Scale Computing Platform

What types of operational challenges did deploying SC//Platorm solve for your organization?

Enabled virtualization without complexity	81%
Reduced time spent managing Infrastructure	65%
Improved availability of critical workloads	44%
Improved scalability of Infrastructure	66%
Improved disaster recovery	58%
Single vendor support of Infrastructure	40%
Reduced IT operating costs	41%
Other	5%

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Medium Enterprise Government Company

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

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Company Profile

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Kensington School

Introduction

Challenges

Use Case

Results

Company Profile

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Operational Challenges Solved By Scale Computing Platform

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