A Toronto law firm replaced seven VMware hosts and a SAN with one hyperconverged system and recovered the cost in 18 months.
The situation
Chaitons ran VMware on seven host servers with SAN storage, at a maintenance cost in the six figures every year.
What they did
The firm moved to a Scale Computing hyperconverged system.
The result
Rack space dropped from 45U to 3U, power draw fell, the move paid for itself in 18 months, and nearly half the capacity and memory is still free for growth.
Why it matters
Professional firms need uptime and confidentiality without a data centre team. Less hardware means less to fail, patch and pay for.
Source: Scale Computing. This organization is a Scale Computing customer, not a Connex client.