Philippe Lemieux, IT director for the museums said, “We looked for a player in the hyper-converged space that could provide a hypervisor, disaster recovery, replication, cloning and everything. At the end of the day that didn’t leave many players – Scale Computing’s HC3 platform offered the right combination of capabilities to align our infrastructure as well as help us plan, grow and integrate.”
Currently Lemieux says that 85% of museums’ critical systems are on the HC3 platform including the following:
• Financial
• Human Resources
• Box office/Ticketing
• Museum shops
• Facility Rentals
• Donor programs
The museum’s IT environment included Dell Fiber SANs, Hitachi SANs, HP Switches, physical servers and more – infrastructure diversity of equipment, which presented multiple points of failure.
Lemieux and his team looked at many companies to help transform the museum’s in-congruent datacenter. Lemieux also wanted one solution to provide replication, snapshotting, user friendliness and the ability to clone the VM and test environment in a single solution.
The HC3 platform fit in with the museums’ needs, offering storage, servers, virtualization and management together in a comprehensive system -- without the virtualization software licenses or external storage to purchase. As a result, the HC3 lowers out-of-pocket costs and radically simplifies the infrastructure needed to keep applications running.
Lemieux said migrating to Scale Computing’s HC3 was a flawless process and challenges were easily rectified. “We wanted less complexity,” said Lemieux. “We wanted a solution that was dead simple and Scale Computing lived up to the promises of hyperconvergence.”
