Scale’s HC3 updates Goodwill systems, promises remote management

Scale, in a separate announcement, said it has entered into an original equipment manufacturer partnership with Acronis International GmbH. More on this deal below.

In a remarkable display of information technology thriftiness, Goodwill Central Coast has served 20 locations in three counties just south of Silicon Valley – Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, and Monterey – with an IT staff of just three people.

The staff were wrestling with an aging infrastructure that could not have made their work any easier. Its legacy virtualization system needed physical reboots every 60 days, for example.

The organization, which like all Goodwill chapters raises funds through iconic resale stores, is now using Scale’s HC3 edge self-healing platform to simplify management of its file system (24 file servers) and databases.

Goodwill officials said the move shaved 15 percent on the initial information technology department budget. As part of the purchase, their point-of-sale system has been upgraded to take advantage of the HC3 deployment. Migrating the file servers to HC3 took as little as 20 minutes per server, according to the officials.

The HC3 system is capable of streamlined management of remote servers, although it is unclear if Goodwill will be taking advantage of that feature in the near future.

The Scale partnership with Acronis will bring the latter company’s data backup product to Scale’s HC3 product line. The deal gives HC3 systems archiving, enhanced data production, disaster recovery and threat mitigation.

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