Honest Plainly Worded HC3 vs Cisco review, based on multiple years of experience.
August 11, 2017

Honest Plainly Worded HC3 vs Cisco review, based on multiple years of experience.

Yancy Lancaster | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review

Overall Satisfaction with Scale Computing HC3

We use Scale for not only our own infrastructure but our customers and in our data center. Scale provides the perfect 'pay as you grow' approach with IT for our clients. We also use it to support our clients in the data center as a quick off-site restore platform when disaster strikes.
  • The true pioneers of hyper-convergence. If you are evaluating H/C, or are planning on deploying H/C, explore all the solutions out there, and you will find that Scale is the only one that is doing H/C at the base level, the way it should be. Products like Cisco's and others are add ons or afterthoughts and are not much different or just re-worded UCS models.
  • The "Pay as you Grow" model afforded by Scale is the future of IT. Why would you EVER buy significantly more computing resources than you need for the very short term? Scale gives you the ability to tighten your capacity planning to meet the fiduciary responsibility modern IT demands.
  • They push third party migration software, that is nearly 100% useless. In the 5 different cases we have tried to use it, we have needed significant tech support and they have not been able to even get the program to work outside of a lab environment. This is not a reflection on Scale other than they push this expensive software that they KNOW 100% doesn't work.
  • We have experienced significant failure rate from the single node, noncluster servers. One device we have had to replace 2 times (we are on the 3rd one) in a month.
They can't get the third party software they recommend to ever work.
Solid Works Vault. Efolder.
  • I would never provide you with this information, however, believe me when I say it's significant.
1/5th the cost. Significantly more efficient. Significantly easier to "Scale" properly to the environment. operating costs are in the range of 1/10th the cost.
  • Pay as you grow model.
  • Digital Cloud Transformation of existing IT departments.