CASE STUDY
Spanning three counties in Southern California , Goodwill Central Coast serves Monterey , Santa Cruz and San Luis Obispo . Goodwill Central Coast ' s mission is to provide employment for individuals who face barriers to employment , such as homelessness , military service , single parenting , incarceration , addiction and job displacement .
To fund its mission , Goodwill Central Coast is also a retail organization , which provides job training and funds programs to assist individuals in reclaiming their financial and personal independence .
With 18 locations to service , Goodwill Central Coast was in need of a virtual hyperconverged infrastructure solution capable of managing the region ' s file systems at the Edge and databases out of a central database in Salinas .
Without the resources available to provide on-site services for each location , Goodwill Central Coast wanted an Edge Computing solution that required little or no management for its remote regional servers .
Scale Computing HC3 – Introduction , selection and implementation
Before turning to Scale Computing , Goodwill Central Coast was using an outdated legacy virtualization system that required physical reboots every other month .
The IT staff at Goodwill Central Coast began exploring solutions to upgrade from their cumbersome legacy solutions in 2018 .
The non-profit was looking to save management time by replacing its IT infrastructure with a virtual server system capable of simply and efficiently managing remote servers .
Kevin Waddy , IT Director , Goodwill Central Coast , was also interested in looking for a hyperconverged system for its ability to migrate from physical servers to virtual .
Waddy said : “ An obvious solution was to go ahead and upgrade the existing solution which would have meant new servers , new switches and a new SAND device but that was going to be an expensive option and I had started to lose faith in the operating system for clustering – I didn ' t have faith in the stability of it .
“ I started to look at hyperconverged systems and systems that were more integrated .”
Waddy was deliberating between two solutions but ultimately selected Scale Computing for its affordability , dependability and simplicity .
HC3 was deployed and implemented quickly on 24 virtual servers across 18 locations in the region , providing the non-profit with a solution that required less management and support , resulting in increased uptime .
Waddy said : “ It was a very smooth , quick transition . During the implementation , we had very personal contact and very motivated support . The implementation team seemed like they had a really high stake in my success and they were successful with that .”
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