Case Study: Chaitons LLP achieves 18-month ROI and simplified, high-performance infrastructure with Scale Computing HC3

Chaitons - Customer Case Study

Chaitons LLP is an 80‑person Toronto law firm that had grown a complex infrastructure—seven host servers, SAN storage and 56 VMware virtual machines—to run critical systems like Exchange and document management. Growing databases and the need for disaster recovery forced an upgrade from VMware 4.1 to 5.5, but third‑party recommendations to update SAN firmware and a lapsed maintenance contract (a $24,000 reinstatement) exposed escalating costs and operational complexity, prompting the firm to seek a simpler, hyperconverged solution.

Chaitons implemented Scale Computing’s HC3 (HC4100 with 42 TB and 300 GB RAM), which consolidated storage, servers and virtualization into a single system with no external SAN or separate virtualization licensing. Installation took under an hour with live VM migrations and no downtime, reducing 45U of rack equipment to 3U, cutting power and cooling needs, and delivering near‑instant search performance. The firm retained about half its capacity for growth, simplified IT management for a two‑person team, reduced reliance on third parties, and achieved payback in roughly 18 months.

Chaitons

Dominique Chung

IT Director