Canadian MSP Pinnacle Office Solutions Deploys Scale Computing HC3

Scale Computing announced that Pinnacle Office Solutions Ltd. has deployed DR as a Service offerings based on its HC3 virtualization platform to expand its portfolio of total business solutions to SMBs throughout Atlantic Canada.

Founded in 1999 as an office equipment supplier, Pinnacle has grown into a multi-divisional company that provides professional services, support, and resources to meet its customers’ needs. Its networks division provides an array of IT services to deploy and maintain office equipment and business solutions – from simple computing devices to complex IT infrastructures.  Looking for a solution that it could add to help capture additional and larger customers, Pinnacle partnered with Scale to offer DRaaS solutions.

“Scale’s HC3 platform fulfilled the need for us,” said Dion Caines, network manager, Pinnacle. “We never had a solution that we could offer in an all-in-one package.  It was kind of ‘pull a vendor here, pull a vendor there’ or ‘choose a different vendor here’ and then hopefully itall works out.  But with Scale, it’s jst, you buy one solution and you’re done.  Compare that to other vendors – the HPs or EMCs – similar solutions would cost a lot more and they are a lot more complex.“

HC3 platform brings storage, servers, virtualization and management together in a single system. With no virtualization software to license and no external storage to buy, HC3 products lower out-of-pocket costs and simplify the infrastructure needed to keep applications running. They make the deployment and management of a highly available and scalable infrastructure as easy to manage as a single server.

Pinnacle can set up per VM continuous replication between an HC3 cluster at a customer site and one at its main office, including failover and failback, to provide reliable DRaaS. HyperCore makes use of its space efficient snapshot technology to replicate data from a customer’s site to Pinnacle’s data center, tracking and sending only changed blocks.

“By seamlessly integrating all of the components needed for a DR infrastructure into a single platform, we are able to provide to partners a simple-to-deploy and cost-effective method of adding DRaaS to their service portfolios,” said Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder, Scale Computing. “We are pleased to have the opportunity to work with Pinnacle to make DRaaS a possibility for their customers who may otherwise feel like DR is too expensive or too difficult to implement. We will continue to support their efforts as they roll out their service to small and midsized organizations throughout their region.“