Case Study: Weston Homes Plc achieves simple, cost-effective virtualisation with Scale Computing

Weston Homes Plc - Customer Case Study

Weston Homes Plc, an Essex-based property developer with about 200 employees and a small IT team, was nearing the end of a five-year server refresh and needed to consolidate and virtualise its infrastructure. With the economic downturn tightening budgets and concerns about putting data in the cloud, the company found traditional do-it-yourself virtualisation (VMware plus NetApp) too complex and expensive—shared storage alone was estimated at £40–50k—and lacked the in-house expertise to support it.

Weston deployed Scale Computing’s HC³ hyperconverged solution, which combines servers, storage and virtualization in a single, easy-to-manage system. The move gave them a fully virtualised, highly available environment with far lower cost and operational complexity, enabling the IT team to focus on applications rather than infrastructure and delivering improved end-user productivity and efficiency.

Weston Homes Plc

John Sibley

IT Manager