PRESS RELEASE — INDIANAPOLIS, June 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Small to mid-sized companies struggle with storage complexity, data center complexity, cost, and time investments, according to the 2015 State of SMB IT Infrastructure Survey, conducted by ActualTech Media.

Nearly 600 technology professionals from organizations with fewer than 500 employees responded to the survey, conducted from March 11th to March 25th by ActualTech Media principals Scott Lowe and David Davis for sponsor Scale Computing, the leading Mid-market provider of hyperconverged solutions combining storage, servers, virtualization, and management.

Scaling the infrastructure – both servers/compute and storage – remains a challenge for 34 percent of respondents, and 24 percent cited infrastructure concerns including managing complexity, troubleshooting, and keeping infrastructure current.

The study showed wide variety in the degree to which SMBs have rolled out virtualization. There was an even split among respondents, with 50 percent reporting that half or more of their servers are virtualized, and the other 50 percent saying less than half are. ActualTech Media credits this to it being widely known that not every workload is easily virtualized, and reluctance to move their mission critical applications to such environments. 50 percent of respondents also reported that they had dedicated less than 10 TB to server virtualization.

VMware vSphere is the most popular hypervisor in place, with 46 percent, followed by Microsoft Hyper-V at 25 percent, and all others combined representing 29 percent.

“We believe that this data indicates an opportunity for SMB-focused infrastructure and hyperconvergence vendors to serve these customers and to make a significant impact when it comes to improving their operational efficiency,” said Scott Lowe, Co-founder of ActualTech Media. “This also presents an opportunity for education of this market, and helping SMB customers better understand that most of their workloads would be well supported with modern hypervisors and related tools.””We know SMBs are adopting virtualization to keep their infrastructures up to date, but questions about the current state from which they are evolving, what they are using, what challenges they have, and what they’re spending are too rarely asked of this important and diverse market segment,” said Jeff Ready, CEO of Scale Computing. “We leaped at the chance to work with ActualTech Media on this survey, which offers the most comprehensive information currently available on the needs of small to mid-sized companies.”

In addition to market studies, ActualTech Media services include custom whitepapers, webinars, videos, product reviews and more. For more information see www.actualtechmedia.com.

Scale Computing’s HC3® systems are designed to provide high availability, scalability and simplicity for SMB environments. The HC3 platform brings storage, servers, virtualization, and management together in a single, comprehensive system. With no virtualization software to license and no external storage to buy, HC3 products lower out-of-pocket costs and radically simplify the infrastructure needed to keep applications running. HC3 products make the deployment and management of a highly available and scalable infrastructure as easy to manage as a single server.

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Scale Computing integrates storage, servers, and virtualization software into an all-in-one appliance based system that is scalable, self-healing, and as easy to manage as a single server. Using industry standard components, the HC3 appliances install in under an hour, and can be expanded and upgraded with no downtime. High availability insulates the user from any disk or server failure and a unified management capability driven by the patented HyperCore Software™, efficiently integrates all functionality. The result is a data center solution that reduces operational complexity, allows a faster response to business issues, and dramatically reduces costs. For more information, call 877-SCALE-59 or visit www.scalecomputing.com.