Case Study: Standard School District achieves high availability and 75% cost savings with Scale Computing HC3

Standard School District - Customer Case Study

Standard School District, a Bakersfield, CA public school system serving about 2,900 students across three elementary schools and one middle school, had a small IT team of three and was running VMware ESXi but lacked high availability. Concerned that a single server failure would cause downtime, the district could not virtualize more than 25% of its servers because adding SAN/NAS and upgraded VMware licensing would have been too complex and costly for their limited budget and staff.

They deployed Scale Computing’s HC3 hyper‑converged platform, which combines compute and storage in a single clustered system with built‑in automatic high availability and simplified VM provisioning. HC3 eliminated the need for SAN/NAS, cut quoted costs by about 75%, reduced rack space from 24U to 4U, sped VM deployments, and lets the district scale simply by adding nodes—delivering higher availability, lower complexity, and significant savings in cost, power and management time.

Standard School District

Jefferson Davis

Technology and Information Systems