Case Study: Cascade Lumber and Manufacturing achieves simplified, cost-effective virtualization with Scale Computing HC3

Cascade Lumber and Manufacturing - Customer Case Study

Cascade Lumber and Manufacturing, a 250-employee Midwest wood and cold-formed steel components maker with a single IT administrator, struggled with a complex Citrix XenServer environment that required multiple hosts, iSCSI SANs, clustering and licensing to achieve the reliability they needed. Growing the environment was costly and difficult to manage, and the company needed a scalable, cost-effective way to consolidate infrastructure that could be administered remotely.

They adopted Scale Computing’s HC3 hyperconverged appliance, which combines servers, storage and virtualization into a single, scale-out system. HC3 removed the need for separate hypervisor licenses and external SANs, simplified management (remotely via a web browser), delivered built‑in high availability and faster scaling, and reduced management time by roughly 20%, all at a fraction of the prior solution’s cost.

Cascade Lumber and Manufacturing

Joel Althoff

Cascade Lumber