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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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$8,800
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HC1250
$10,200
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HC1250D
$16,300
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- 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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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
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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
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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
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I'm the only one who supports it however it's such a great solution that anyone with basic computer knowledge could do it.
December 01, 2020
Scale Review
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We are a small 2 man IT shop, and we take care of all of our Scale Computing hardware.
December 01, 2020
Scale Computing HC3 - Scales up to meet your needs.
1
General knowledge of servers and virtualization. The ease of use is amazing. Scale allows me to spin up new servers or backup systems on the fly. Very excellent to have when doing security updates etc.
November 30, 2020
HC3 works for me!
1
Understanding of virtualization.
November 30, 2020
Scale Computing - Why we ditched VMware and Went to HC3
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Basic network and server administration.
November 27, 2020
Perfect system for us, peace of mind with performance.
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I am experienced with Xen, XCP-NG, VMware, KVM and Hyper-V. Honestly, a basic understanding of what a VM is would be all that is required to manage a Scale system. If you have installed a desktop or server OS, managed any basic networking, etc you will should only need to browser the Scale interface to learn it.
November 27, 2020
Scale is wonderful, not only as a virtualization platform but for increased DR capabilities as well.
5
Basic knowledge of Hypervisor terminology, other than that its fairly intuitive
November 25, 2020
Scale HC3 review
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I am the lone in-house support person. Although I have extensive IT experience, very little expertise is needed to maintain the servers.
November 25, 2020
High-powered hyperconverged environment without the high cost!
2
The Scale Computing HC3 is extremely easy to use. It requires some networking knowledge and virtualization knowledge but the functionality and setup is extremely easy to learn. No need to worry if you get stuck since support is only a phone call away.
November 25, 2020
Scale: Smart, Simple, Effective, Reliable, and so much more...
2
Any server/network admin with a general understanding of server builds in a VM environment will quickly understand operations in Scale Computing.
Support is a remote service delivered by Scale, including, via IBM in our case, the Lenovo hardware support. Therefore there is no "support" needed per-se, rather there are occasional admin activities to carry out and that is just another activity our IT outsourcer provides on an adhoc basis.
There is no full time admin on it as it does not require it
There is no full time admin on it as it does not require it
November 24, 2020
Scale HC3 - Perfect for the small to medium size business
1
Technical background with familiarity in virtualization and different hypervisor experience is definitely needed to understand the technologies.
November 24, 2020
Scale Computing HC3: the best VM platform
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Just me, but that has been enough. I touch the HC3 so little that I hate describe myself as the Scale HC3 Admin, but there ya go :).
October 23, 2020
Medium Size School Using Scale Computing HC3
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I am a one man IT department, and as such have to be a jack of all trades. As such I can go from desktop support, to network management, to server administration all in a matter of minutes. Scale Computing allows for this transition seamlessly with their easy to use UI.
February 11, 2020
Scale Computing - Magnificent
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Mainly people from IT support Scale. Scale is easy to learn and understand.The level of support need is low because of the ease of use and the limited amount of time needed to maintain Scale. Moreover, it is very easy to teach new people on how to manage Scale products.
March 29, 2019
HC3 - Truly a breath of fresh air.
2
These analysts, with no formal system administrator training or experience, simply shadowed the implementer and asked questions as needed. Since go-live, they have been able to manage the environment with no additional support.
March 29, 2019
Hidden Gem For Education CTOs
The two of the three support technicians have a basic understanding of virtual environments and a standard level of troubleshooting. Scale has made the interface and operation user-friendly and simple that I could easily show non technical users with limited technical ability.
March 22, 2019
Weighing the Competition
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An understanding of how a Hyper-visor functions and then general IT/AD knowledge.
March 13, 2019
SCALE is Pretty Darn Awsome
3
Anyone with any basic computer understanding could run a scale HC3, although someone with higher knowledge can that that platform , and
run with it, , that in turn would allow a site to have a very scalable ,and upgradeable and stable platform, and that is totally piece of mind
March 08, 2019
Scale Computing HC3 saved our IT Infrastructure
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A tech person that knows the basic of creating images of operating system, assigning parameters such as CPU count, Memory and Storage. The Scale Computing interface is very easy to understand, and certainly no certification is required to manage and maintain this infrastructure.
February 20, 2019
Damn good option - I am sold for sure.
2
Both our Systems Administrator and CTO support as needed. We are an SMB that currently has only the SysAdmin doing support for the entire organization. As the SysAdmin, I have been able to walk our CFO through a few support tasks while I was out of the office. It is an incredibly easy platform to support and the only 2 times that I required support from the Scale team, our issues were resolved very quickly.
February 02, 2018
I love our Scale
2
IT - Virtual system experience helps, but I wouldn't say its necessary.
January 23, 2018
Simply Amazing, the Node Cluster that can't be beat!
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I support the Scale Computing HC3 cluster myself. In my absence one of the programmers will step in if needed. To this day, no one has had the need to modify the HC3 cluster, but only install updates. Everything else is happening automatically which was set up by the Scale Support team on initial set up. Periodically I login and run a snapshot to ensure everything is working perfectly. I have a background in Programming, Networking, Hardware design and support. I use none of those skills to manage or support this cluster.
January 19, 2018
Scale helped consolidate our network needs into one solution
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We are a department of only 2 people servicing 120+ users in 4 locations. Scale has reduced our need for additional employees due to being an all in one solution for us.
2
With ongoing support with Scale, you don't need much of an IT department for the cluster itself. The cluster adds almost zero load to our internal department, and in point of clarity, actually took load off from our previous VM solutions. The Scale solution is so simple to manage, you forget you are running a virtualized cluster. Just a super simple interface which gives you all the tools you need.