An Ontario conservation authority chose Scale over a VMware option to run its watershed sensor network, and finished early and under budget.
The situation
Credit Valley Conservation collects data from 40 watershed sensors to track the health of the Credit River watershed, and needed infrastructure to process and share it.
What they did
In 2022 it deployed a four-node Scale Computing HyperCore cluster, choosing it over a VMware-based option for capability against cost and no virtualization licensing fees.
The result
The team built it in eight months instead of the 18 it had planned, came in under budget, and fit the hardware into about a third of a rack.
Why it matters
Conservation authorities and municipalities face the same pressure: more data, fixed budgets. This is what lower licensing and a smaller footprint look like in Ontario.
Source: Scale Computing. This organization is a Scale Computing customer, not a Connex client.