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What is Scale Computing Platform?
Scale Computing offers edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions for customers around the globe. Scale Computing HyperCore software promises to eliminate traditional virtualization software, disaster recovery software, servers, and shared storage, replacing these with a fully integrated, highly available system…
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HE151
$3,300
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HE501
$6,800
On Premise
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HC1300
$11,900
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What is Scale Computing Platform?
Scale Computing offers edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions for customers around the globe. Scale Computing HyperCore software promises to eliminate traditional virtualization software, disaster recovery software, servers, and shared storage, replacing these with a fully integrated, highly available system for running applications. The vendor says that, using patented HyperCore™ technology, the SC//HyperCore self-healing platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and corrects problems in the infrastructure in real-time, enabling applications to achieve maximum uptime even when local IT resources and staff are scarce. The vendor says ease-of-use, high availability, and TCO are key differentiators. The product works for distributed enterprises, global retailers, and SMBs alike.
According to the vendor, its key features and benefits include:
- Install in less than an hour
- Deploy new VMs in minutes
- Built-in Browser-based Management
- Software-defined, hybrid storage system with automated tiering
- Fully integrated, cluster-wide resource utilization and alerts
- Single vendor support experience, no disparate systems to integrate
- Integrated all-in-one appliance
- Scale-out Architecture
- Mix and match new nodes
- Incremental resources improve performance of existing workloads
- Fast and easy to expand, no downtime required
- No additional licensing required
- Start small and grow as your business grows
- No forklift upgrades
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| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Unix |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | Globally |
| Supported Languages | English |
Scale Computing Platform Downloadables
- SC//Platform is a platform for running applications at the edge, with all of the software, hardware, and services needed. Regardless of the user's hardware requirements, the same innovative software, SC//HyperCore, and SC//Fleet Manager help to run infrastructure efficiently at scale
- Scale Computing HyperCore saves resources because its software, servers, and storage are in a fully integrated platform that power infrastructure regardless of the hardware configuration.
- Scale Computing Fleet Manager is a cloud-hosted monitoring and management tool built for hyperconverged edge computing infrastructure at scale. It can be used to monitor and manage an entire fleet of clusters running Scale Computing HyperCore. For IT Managers with multiple clusters, maintenance time can be reduced.
- This document describes the technology, concepts and operating theory behind the Scale Computing HyperCore OS that powers it, including the SCRIBE (Scale Computing Reliable Independent Block Engine) storage layer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Scale Computing Platform starts at $3300.
VMware vCenter, VMware ESXi, and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure are common alternatives for Scale Computing Platform.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.
The most common users of Scale Computing Platform are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
Scale Computing Platform Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
|---|---|
| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 20% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 70% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 10% |
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To be honest hyper-converged infrastructure products dramatically show improvement from start up. Providing a single pane of glass management is important in any of these HCI products. I like any/all of the HCI products I've worked with thus far.
Dell, vMware, Nutanix,
April 29, 2021
Scale Computing -> Best Value
Each system I evaluated has its own strengths and weaknesses. I ended up choosing Scale because of the features and the price. I feel Scale has the best value for the money. I also like to support smaller businesses and I feel that you often get better customer support, which is what I have experienced in this situation as well.
December 18, 2020
Scale HC3 Review
I saw Scale at a vendor show. I realized how perfect of a fit it was (and affordability) that we didn't shop around.
December 11, 2020
Scale is a great solution with second to none support
- Nutanix and VMware ESXi
Scale replaced a VMWare solution. We compared Scale against a new VMWare solution as well as against a Nutanix hyper-converged solution. After looking at the costs, features, support, and hardware, Scale was the easy choice for our business. It fit every need we had and after 6 months of having it in place, I have no regrets with our decision.
Our previous infrastructure was either IBM servers or custom built servers as hypervisors that weren't clustered. It meant downtime. TCO is about the same, but the improved uptime is dramatic.
December 01, 2020
Scale Review
Price and easy of use - Scale won hands down for me.
December 01, 2020
Scale Computing HC3 is a Business Must-Have!
I looked at Nutanix as a comparable solution but they are only software provider while Scale provides and supports the hardware too. Honestly from what I have experienced there isn't a company offering exactly what Scale Computing offers so there isn't anyone else really competing with it. Some are close but not yet.
December 01, 2020
Scale Computing HC3 - Scales up to meet your needs.
We evaluated several Hyper-converged systems before deciding on Scale Computing HC3, including Cisco and EMC. Scale Computing offered more "bank for the buck". Good hardware, an easy to use interface, and no annual licensing costs, all at a reasonable price point. It was the best fit for our organization. I would recommend anyone to take a look what they have to offer.
November 30, 2020
HC3 works for me!
I had quotes from Dell and HP at the time and I think the smaller business market was not on their radar. Scale hit the underserved mid-size market at the right time. I have not used any other virtualization system at this time.
November 30, 2020
Scale HC3 Review
Our EqualLogic solution was getting close to retirement so we needed to migrate anyway. Setup was far easier with Scale than setting up the EqualLogic environment.
November 30, 2020
Scale Computing - Why we ditched VMware and Went to HC3
- VMware
VMware works. But it is not pretty and the licensing is awful. We often had to sit around waiting for VMware's clunky interface to load before we could do anything and it would only work on Windows. VMware's licensing was ok (not great, but ok) at 3 nodes. However, it massively spiked after 3 due to our educational pricing. This is ultimately what made us decide to go to Scale Computing and we have not once regretted it. We are currently sitting on 6 nodes and planning to add 2 more. How much have we had to add on for licensing for additional nodes? Nothing.
November 30, 2020
Scale HC3 - a great hyper-converged solution for SMB
We migrated from a VMware environment - Scale HC3 is a much simpler, easier to use, and cost-effective solution for a company of our size.
November 28, 2020
Scale tips the scale accross the board
Scale is light years ahead in usability, setup and management. Sales people had me a quote while on the call, other suppliers took up to 3 months.
November 27, 2020
HC3 will change your server world!
- Citrix Hypervisor (formerly XenServer)
HC3 blows XenServer out of the water. The backup process is so much easier, the interface is much easier to follow, and Scale has a built-in portal in the background to remote in and help with issues.
November 25, 2020
Scale HC3 review
Price was a huge factor. Of the products we looked at the Scale HC3 package was considerably cheaper, but had processing, storage and virtualization we needed. I spoke to other companies in our line of business that own the Scale servers and all were so happy they moved over to Scale.
November 25, 2020
Hyperconvergence made simple!
To put it simply, Scale HC3 does most of what the big guys do at a much lower cost. Their deduplication may not be as strong as some competitors, but there are diminishing returns with it as the costs go way up with the other solutions. With Scale, I found I could buy double the hardware and get far more performance and storage instead of chasing fractionally better deduplication numbers. During their demos, Scale made everything sound so simple compared to our previous infrastructure. I didn't fully believe them; however, they've lived up to their promises so far. Evaluating against a non-hyperconverged solution was an easy choice for us.
November 25, 2020
High-powered hyperconverged environment without the high cost!
Scale Computing HC3 runs as well or better than our previous VMWare environment at a much less overall cost.
November 25, 2020
Scale: Smart, Simple, Effective, Reliable, and so much more...
- Nutanix Acropolis and StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)
Nutanix could not compete on price. Not even close. It is a much more complex environment to configure and manage. While this probably means it has a few additional features, we did not encounter any that were relevant to us. It's lone advantage was onsite hardware support. Starwind turned out to be the most expensive solution we considered. It relies heavily on underlying Microsoft technologies (such as clustering) which we saw as a potential point of failure that Starwind did not control.
We had looked at hyperconverged systems from Nutanix, HPE (Simplivity) and NetApp - all wanted a very high premium on top of which there were still additional licenses.
Their individual high costs meant they were never viable despite some attractive feature sets.
Their individual high costs meant they were never viable despite some attractive feature sets.
When it was time to refresh our old previous virtual environment, we looked at traditional server/storage, server/san, as well as other HCI competitors. We evaluated many solutions, but decided on Scale Computing for its simplicity to manage, use and setup, cost, but most of all it's functionality, like its ability to recover data in the event of a disaster. We hope to be using this solution for years to come!
November 24, 2020
Great solution!
Currently, we are just using the HC3 solution and have not looked at anything else.
November 24, 2020
The scalability of Scale HC3
I have not used any other products by Scale Computing. I would venture to guess that any product that they create would be world class in quality and customer service, just like their HC3 platform. I would recommend HC3 to any of my colleagues or others in the industry looking for a hyperconverged infrastructure solution.
November 24, 2020
Scale HC3 - Perfect for the small to medium size business
Easier to manage, console is easy to use, backups and moving vms between hosts is a breeze
November 24, 2020
Happy HC3 Customer
- VMware ESXi and Hyper-V
The price to performance for Scale Computing HC3 is something that made the final decision for our organization easy. While Scale may lack some of the advanced features of VMware, as a shop that had used VMware for over 7 years, I can confidently say that in my time with the organization the capabilities of Scale Computing HC3 have more than kept pace with what we used daily in other solutions.