Scale Computing, the leading provider of hyperconverged
solutions, announced the successful implementation of their patented
HyperCore Software HC3 platform to help integrate and simplify the IT
infrastructures of the Canadian Museum of History and the Canadian War Museum in the provinces of Quebec and Ontario respectively. The museums, a Canadian Crown
corporation and part of the network of National Museums, were suffering
from overly complex and disparate IT environments that caused work
stoppage and slowdowns.
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."