Scale Computing Continued Momentum Within Public Sector

Scale Computing, Inc. continues to deliver scalable edge computing and IT infrastructure to government sector.

The company’s HC3 Edge and IT infrastructure solutions continue to enable municipal institutions of all sizes to optimize operations with self-healing, automated infrastructure for all applications while protecting sensitive government data.

“In today’s world, IT management is tasked more than ever with simplifying infrastructure and delivering solutions to employees and citizens that mitigate risks in a whole new way. IT departments need to ensure that hardware and software are reliable, remotely accessible, and protected vs. cyberthreats,” said Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder. “Scale Computing meets the complicated IT infrastructure demands of state and local gove,ents. Our agile, reliable platforms can replace traditional IT infrastructure across any agency, any department, or any system, while driving out the high costs of downtime and system administration.“

The company brings municipal institutions, including governments, government agencies, and other public institutions, into a new era of computing by revamping IT operations with a solution that simplifies management, protects sensitive government data, and helps deliver smart, digital services.

Kitselas First Nation is a self-funded and self-governing nation, and one of the 14 Tsimshian tribes in British Columbia. After experiencing a flood, it needed new servers and a modern solution for simplicity, scalability, availability and DR. With only one person on the IT staff, they were also in need of powerful systems capable of running workloads with efficiency and speed, as well as an affordable solution capable of maximizing uptime.

Kitselas First Nation selected Scale Computing’s HC3 platform which provides them with simplified, affordable IT infrastructure with improved performance. Since this implementation, it saved resources and 15% of time spent managing infrastructure, leading to an increase in time spent working on other projects. The solution also provides the customer with DR and the ability to manage IT infrastructure without the need for local IT staff.

Don Agnew, IT support and asset management officer, Kitselas First Nation, says: “We have an on-site backup and a Google Cloud Platform in Quebec. If another disaster strikes, the hardware component fails or the entire HC3 appliance breaks down, we’re covered. The Scale Computing HC3 cluster is highly available and keeps our systems running with no downtime. HC3 won’t let us down.“

The Summit County Board of Elections in Ohio is responsible for securely managing the records of 370,000 registered voters and over one million citizen records. As Ohio’s fourth most populous county, its entire network infrastructure is managed by a team of 2 full-time IT professionals. With an aging server infrastructure and a heavily scrutinized presidential election fast approaching in 2020, this IT duo needed to modernize their systems, comply with strict new security directives, and do so in an expedited time-frame.

After selecting Scale Computing’s HC3 solution, the Summit County Board of Elections was able to consolidate 7 servers to a cluster of 3 HC3 notes in less than 7 months, implement sautomated snapshots of servers that are backed up to a remote cluster providing system redundancy, simplify management and operations so their two-person IT team could focus on operational priorities, and comply with new state and Federal security directives.

As Kevin Moreland, network & systems administrator, Summit County Board of Elections says: “Every decision we make comes down to, ‘can you make it through a presidential election’? We knew we needed something that was intelligent, scalable, had built-in redundancy, and was cost-effective. Scale has delivered on all of these and more. We went from an environment where we had about seven physical servers to a three node cluster. From that three node cluster, then we can spin up as many virtual servers as warranted by demand – this not only simplified our operational workload but it also dramatically shrunk our eco-footprint.“

Chris Iseral, CIO of Madison County, KY, was challenged with upgrading old infrastructure in an affordable way. Its infrastructure includes 700 users in 26 different facilities across the country, accounting for 23 different departments or agencies. Iseral’ challenges included multiple vendors and an expensive, complicated, and aging infrastructure. Madison County, Kentucky partnered with Scale Computing to deliver high quality, responsive, and budget friendly infrastructure that simplifies management, protects sensitive government data, and helps deliver smart, digital services anywhere, anytime.

As Iseral says: “We wanted something highly available, redundant, scalable, affordable, and easy-to-use. We’re happier than we’ve ever been. Scale Computing has been an awesome product.“

More about Scale Computing’s solutions for state and local government