Case Study: Midwest Acoust-A-Fiber achieves improved uptime and simplified, lower-cost virtualization with Scale Computing HC3

Midwest Acoust-A-Fiber - Customer Case Study

Midwest Acoust-A-Fiber, a 165-employee manufacturer of fiber-engineered composites and a tier-one/tier-two supplier to major automakers, was struggling with aging, failure-prone servers and a two-person IT team. They needed an affordable, turnkey virtualization solution to improve uptime and reliability, but traditional proposals (servers plus SAN/NAS and VMware) proved too costly and complex for their limited budget and staff.

They implemented Scale Computing’s HC3, an integrated server/storage/virtualization appliance that removed SAN/iSCSI complexity and reduced administrative skill requirements. The HC3 cut costs, greatly simplified VM deployment (saving hours per VM), improved infrastructure reliability, and freed the IT team to complete projects like Windows server upgrades without outside assistance.

Midwest Acoust-A-Fiber

Daniel Penrod

Manager Systems Administrator