A School District's Review of the Scale HC3 Platform
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Scale Computing Platform
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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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Pricing
View all pricingHC1200
$8,800
On Premise
Per Node
HC1250
$10,200
On Premise
Per Node
HC1250D
$16,300
On Premise
Per Node
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
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Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting / Integration Services
Product Demos
HC3 Success Story - Detroit Symphony Orchestra
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HC3 Success Story - American Foundry Group
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HC3 Success Story - MSD of Wayne Township
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Product Details
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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, 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
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 Integrations
- Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud
- Parallels Remote Application Server
- Leostream
- Cloud Unity - Google
Scale Computing Platform Competitors
Scale Computing Platform Technical Details
| 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
VMware vCenter Server, VMware ESXi, and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure are common alternatives for Scale Computing Platform.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.6.
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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December 11, 2020
Scale is a great solution with second to none support
1
I am the only one using it as I'm the only IT person at the company.
December 01, 2020
Scale Review
500
We run our accounting, scanning, phone, door security, domain, and file servers on Scale Computing HC3.
December 01, 2020
Scale Computing HC3 - Scales up to meet your needs.
1
I.T. Manager. We have a one person IT department which manages all systems including HC3/servers, email, software and telephones. The reliability of the HC3 system and its ease of use allows me to focus on other things.
November 30, 2020
HC3 works for me!
32
Our file server is accessed by every user from accounting, billing, operations and IT.
November 30, 2020
Scale Computing - Why we ditched VMware and Went to HC3
Usage includes basic departments share, remote desktop servers, SQL servers, and other services for our small Private College.
November 27, 2020
Perfect system for us, peace of mind with performance.
1
Director of Technology/Network Engineer.
November 27, 2020
Scale is wonderful, not only as a virtualization platform but for increased DR capabilities as well.
November 25, 2020
Scale HC3 review
42
All of our internal users (roughly 40) are accessing the Scale cluster, but it is myself and our MSP that do the support on the cluster.
November 25, 2020
High-powered hyperconverged environment without the high cost!
100
The Scale Computing HC3 is utilized by all areas of our company including Accounting, Customer Service, Scheduling, Production, Photography, Shipping, and IT.
November 25, 2020
Scale: Smart, Simple, Effective, Reliable, and so much more...
125
Professional staff, administrative, clerical.
2000
Various as the Scale systems host generic VDI access specifically but these range in use from range planning, digital operations and others, including offshore IT support
November 24, 2020
Scale HC3 - Perfect for the small to medium size business
1
It is just me as I am the only person in the IT department in my organization.
November 24, 2020
Scale Computing HC3: the best VM platform
2
The 2 IT Admins use the Scale administrative console, hundreds of employees use the virtual machines themselves either by virtue of the data sets created by services that run on one of the HC3 VM's or as a physical user of a specific VM.
October 23, 2020
Medium Size School Using Scale Computing HC3
1000
Our Scale Computing nodes are used across the whole school. They host all of our data and servers, including file, domain, print, and VDI. Every business function is represented from students, to teachers, to office staff, as well as IT.
February 11, 2020
Scale Computing - Magnificent
4
IT, Controlling
March 29, 2019
HC3 - Truly a breath of fresh air.
150
HC3 supports a 4-site industrial / process control system; there are two analysts responsible for the health of the SCADA environment, with about 150 total system users.
March 29, 2019
Hidden Gem For Education CTOs
23
Three are support technicians. The remainder are my Microsoft certification students who I teach not only Microsoft client/server and networking, but VM benefits using the H3 as well. Students create VMs, design and implement disaster recovery plans, and utilize VMs as test environments.
March 22, 2019
Weighing the Competition
10
2 are our IT Staff, 8 are from our medical staff, and 3 are from our admin offices. All of which are signing into an RDS Server that's deployed on HC3.
March 13, 2019
SCALE is Pretty Darn Awsome
3
System Support ,
we are responsible for configuration and support of all ,IT products within our facility,
Servers, desktops and peripherals.
Including , software , and automation
March 08, 2019
Scale Computing HC3 saved our IT Infrastructure
85
We run the entire organizations computer and storage needs on the Scale Computing solution. Ranging from massive document management system and a multitude of sql databases. Document searches need to be fast and the Scale Solution addressed this issue and then some. When it comes to the reliability and availability of data and applications, we now have peace of mind knowing we have full redundancy in production and from a business continuity perspective.
February 20, 2019
Damn good option - I am sold for sure.
120
We have servers across all lines of our business on the HC3 platform. Accounting, Web Servers, File Servers, SQL, Exchange, etc. The vast majority of the users are unaware of them even being virtual, but they absolutely love the reboot time anytime maintenance is required.
February 02, 2018
I love our Scale
The whole business in one way or another.
January 23, 2018
Simply Amazing, the Node Cluster that can't be beat!
3
Myself, Director of Technology and 2 programmers use our Scale Cluster Admin portal on a daily basis while we have over 300,000 users access our web application hosted on the Scale Cluster. I monitor and update our VMs including clean ups, and backups using the Scale tools provided. Our programmers log into the VMs to install updated copies of the Web Applications they build to support our staff and clients. Along with our custom Web Applications, we host our Exchange 2016 Server and Active Directory which is the entire back bone of our Service team members communication.
January 19, 2018
Scale helped consolidate our network needs into one solution
120
All of our departments use Scale Computing. Out file servers, print servers, accounting server, etc are all utilizing Scale services.
70
The servers are used by Account, HR, Sales, Operations, Engineering, & Maintenance.