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Scale Computing Platform

Overview

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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10 out of 10
December 07, 2023
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We utilize the Scale Computing Platform as a central element of our IT infrastructure. SCP provides us with a highly scalable and …
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Pricing

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HE151

$3,300

On Premise
per node

HE501

$6,800

On Premise
per node

HC1300

$11,900

On Premise
per node

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.scalecomputing.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $3,300 per node
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Product Details

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

Scale Computing Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of Scale Computing Fleet Management Dashboard - 
At-a-glance summary of the health of the fleet upon login.Screenshot of Cluster Details -
Details of a particular cluster, including health, fleet manager connectivity, nodes, and VMsScreenshot of Scale Computing Fleet Manager -
Manages an organization’s fleet of Clusters.Screenshot of Hypercore UI -
Simple Web Interface for Local Management of the Cluster and its Workloads

Scale Computing Platform Videos

SC//Platform Success Story - Detroit Symphony Orchestra
SC//Platform Success Story - American Foundry Group
SC//Platform Success Story - Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township

Scale Computing Platform Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Unix
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesGlobally
Supported LanguagesEnglish

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

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)20%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)70%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)10%
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Reviews and Ratings

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David Roden | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our environment is 100% virtualized and entirely on Scale Computing. This includes Main file servers; Active Directory domain controllers, SQL servers; speech processing systems; print servers; security management servers; e-discovery hosts; RDS server farms; legal application servers. Our experience is that, no matter what we ask Scale to do, it does it very well. We P2V moved our primary file server on to the Scale cluster with zero issues.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We likely have the typical setup of most small to medium sized businesses. We have Domain Controllers, SQL Database Servers, Microsoft Exchange, File and Print Servers our ERP system and other business specific application servers, so far everything we have thrown at it just works, no complaints here!
Zackary Sutton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I am running my RDP server, FTP server, Email server, file server, and several web servers off of my HC3 infrastructure. The great thing is, if one of the server physically goes down, my users don't see anything happen. The virtual servers will move to a server with available resources.
Ryan Janzen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We previously were running Great Plains in Hyper-V on a DC also running as a Terminal Server (not best practices). To move away from that model we moved our Great Plains VM over to the HC3 on its own VM and was able to assign the appropriate resources, actively monitor and provide real-time redundancy in the event of hardware failure.
November 24, 2020

Happy HC3 Customer

Collin Coe | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Being able to quickly scale up virtualized solutions has and continues to be critical to our daily operations. Coupling that with the automatic backups of VMs to a paired cluster and we have seen a dramatic improvement in our RTO and RPO deliverables to the organization.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We run all of our production DBs, case management, document management, Exchange, and most other primary systems on Scale. Performance has never been an issue. We have a 4 node cluster in production and a 3 node cluster in DR. Auto load balancing works well.
November 24, 2020

Dumped Xen for Scale

Kelly Mumm | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We run our entire server environment on Scale. When we first bought the system we were running Active Directory, SQL server, ADFS, file servers, document management servers and a host of other in house applications. A few months after the purchase, we decided to purchase a business analytics server that required a 64 GB database. One quick call to Scale and we added more memory to the cluster and had the new server running in less than a week.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company monitors life safety equipment so every second counts HC3 keeps our database cluster both reliable and performant with minimal configuration.
November 03, 2020

Scale Computing Rocks!

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We run our Windows Forest Domain Controller, Access Control System Server (doors) and Building Controls Server (Heat and HVAC). My experience is that they run rock solid. I have set up test servers and played with Disaster Recovery just to test and it was excellent. I was able to recover in minutes with essentially no data loss.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The following are among our critical applications:<br>- ERP systems<br>- Email<br>- Terminal services<br><br>One expressed apprehension was how the SQL Server VM would perform but this was easily addressed with increasing the heat factor and true to it, SQL Server performed much faster compared to when it was housed in a physical box and being virtual, I have lesser worry about it going down on us.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our Citrix environment is noticeably faster. Our users noticed this the first day the system went live. Our file shares are indexed faster, which was also a noticeable change by our users. During a power outage, I was more comfortable with this system coming back up than I was with previous systems.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We actually do not have not have business critical systems running on Scale. Since we already had an HP Simplivity environment, we chose to move most of our non-critical systems to Scale because of the better price point and ease of use.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our business is insurance and our insureds and agents depend on our system being available. We have been able to keep our system available with very few interruptions in the HC3 system. The last interruption that I can remember was a planned firmware upgrade done during off-hours.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our Scale Computing HC3 is running our windows environment which includes; Domain Controllers, File servers, Printer Servers, and a few other services. So far it has handled our needs flawlessly. We do not use any on prem applications so I do not have experience with that side of it. I would imagine it would handle applications fine though.
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