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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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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 |
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- 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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March 08, 2019
Scale Computing HC3 saved our IT Infrastructure
- 18 month ROI, need I say more?
- Less time managing server infrastructure allows the IT team to focus on other projects.
- Increased battery backup time means "no" worry and/or stress whenever there is a power storm.
- As mentioned, ROI was great: an immediate cashflow savings of over $50,000 versus a hardware refresh, plus the benefits of capitalizing it over time.
- No license fees like other hypervisor vendors means we have saved a lot of money since go-live, which we could "bank" toward adding additional nodes should we need additional compute or storage.
March 02, 2019
Don't be afraid to Scale your virtual environment
- The choice of a Scale system was a positive impact on the Bank's business objectives. A higher capacity and greater performance Scale system was 58% less than a three host plus storage array traditional virtual environment. And the Scale system included a secondary cluster for replication and offsite disaster recovery.
- Management and monitoring of the Scale stack from the single dashboard resulted in a 70% reduction in staff's time devoted to the previous virtual environment management and monitoring.
- Zero percent hardware downtime equals 100% uptime for production and functionality.
February 27, 2019
HC3 - A fantastic solution for all your needs.
- Scale Computing HC3 has given us confidence in a system that just works.
February 22, 2019
HC3: Flexibility AND Performance
- The platform saved us 40% at deployment vs. traditional alternative and was a substantially smaller investment that alternative hyper-convergence solutions with similar performance specifications.
- We have been able to reduce head-count by one with the HC3 platform in place.
- We have been able to eliminate the annual licensing cost associated with VMware which added to the ROI of HC3.
February 21, 2019
HC3 - A Clear Choice For Our City
- Ease of budgeting
February 20, 2019
Damn good option - I am sold for sure.
- Time savings is the #1 thing for me. If I get an alert in the middle of the night about some issue, I can remote in and be confident in restarting the VM and it coming up in a timely fashion. With physical I always worry that something in POST will prevent boot and then I have an hour drive at 2am to press a key on the keyboard.
- Being able to spin up a new server when some new project starts is great. Now I do not have to spend time configuring a new physical server, then wait for assembly and shipping, then install, then updates and config. As long as I am keeping my templates up to date properly, I can get the new machine up in under an hour.
- If I had continued with physical machines when we decided to go virtual, I would easily be at our initial investment costs by now. Plus you add the cost of space, electric and cooling....not to mention being able to spin up more VM's as needed....and I would be well over twice the initial costs.
February 20, 2019
Scale Computing HC3 - First Time User Review
- So far the primary ROI has been in electricity usage. The sheer number of physical servers we were able to power down after moved to the cluster has reduced our monthly power bill by approximately 20%.
- Being able to remotely manage the cluster has been a huge perk. Some days where I would typically work from home have been squashed by the need to come to the office to physically restart a single-host server. This has not been an issue since the switch to Scale.
February 19, 2019
Make it easy on yourself.
- Maintenance time/costs. Scale has reduced maintenance costs to almost nothing with live upgrades, and is as simple as the click of a button. Resiliency in issues with external hardware (networking, ...) have made all of our services available with no downtime since the install.
- Flexibility and scalability. The ability for us to create virtual environments to quickly develop and run projects at basically no costs in a matter of minutes. The high degree of configuration for virtual devices has enabled us to completely set-up test environments mirroring our live environment in minutes to test the impact of changes.
- Resiliency. Doubling everything is a big break on trying to come up with resilient solutions and maintaining a live environment around the clock.
February 19, 2019
Scale for redundancy
- Scale has allowed us to free up rack space.
- Storage is awesome and redundancy is always a plus.
February 19, 2019
Scale will scale with us.
- Less FTE required on IT
- Efficiency increase
- Scaling flexibility
February 19, 2019
Scale HC3 in K-12
- Lowered cost of management.
- Lowered cost of infrastructure.
October 05, 2018
Best HCI solution? Look no farther than Scale Computing
- Highly competitive price point per node compared to other competitors
- No need to purchase additional VMWARE, Hyper-V licenses allowing us to allocate additional $$ towards other projects
- Cost savings on annual maintenance contracts based the competitive pricing of the HC3 nodes.
September 24, 2018
Scale Computing HC3, the right fit for SMB
- We have saved a tremendous amount on maintenance cost, previously paying for maintenance on our servers, SAN and virtualization OS. The maintenance cost for HC3 covers all three categories and is less than what we were paying before.
September 24, 2018
The small business best asset - Scale
- We were in dire need of new infrastructure and were looking at spending quite a bit on hardware. We were introduced to Scale through a vendor and after one meeting I realized I could achieve our goals at a fraction of the cost.
September 24, 2018
More Scale Please
- We're saving $15k per year alone in just hardware support costs
- We're saving even more by no longer needing VMWare.
- Upgrading Scale takes a lot less man hours than upgrading VMWare.
April 04, 2018
Scale out performs
- ROI is huge given the lack of licensing costs and ease of use
February 05, 2018
Three year review of Scale's HC3
- The system has reduced downtime significantly, saving the client thousands of dollars in lost productivity.
- The reduction of power usage, although not a high dollar amount monthly, does add up to several thousand dollars over a three year period.
February 02, 2018
Scale HC3 3 Node first time purchaser review
- We were running a single server setup and adding this 3 node cluster in a second location has established a beginning to allow us to have a location and soon a co-location.
- Being a small shop - taking out the need for a storage device has potentially saved us from forklift upgrades in the future since all scale nodes are supposed to be forward and backward compatible.
- Moving from a VMWare environment to a Scale node was a simple process and did not require any costly software to move from one VM type to another.
February 02, 2018
HC3 how to make your life easier.
- Scale has already paid for itself after two years with our savings from licensing and hardware refresh that we would have had to invest.
February 02, 2018
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- We lowered the total cost of ownership by switching from an ESX cluster with separate ESX host, Switches, and SAN.
January 30, 2018
Honest review of Scale Computing's HC3x
- I went through a pricing exercise and compared similar solutions (VMWare & Hyper-V). Scale Computing's solution came in around 25% cheaper than the nearest alternative.
- We've been using the same cluster for five years now and have no plans on switching platforms.
- The lack of maintenance we have to perform on the platform certainly saves us time and money.
January 30, 2018
Scale HC3 is the way to go.
- No longer have to worry about buying server hardware. I'm just seconds or minutes away from spinning up a new server.
- Saves time.
- Creates less stress
January 30, 2018
Scale Computing HC3 - You won't Be Sorry
- Our HC3 system has completely freed us from the daily requirements of basically babysitting our previous VM system. Where I had to check in daily to see what service or function was having a problem in our previous system I do not even have to log in to the HC3 unless it's to use the console functionality to access a vm that needs attention. When it was brand new I would log in daily at first but after finding everything purring along the same day after day I do not bother any more. :)
- There was always the worry of a server or storage device dying with our previous system. We also had to watch our different updates so we didn't update ourselves out of support because of our hardware falling off of the HCLs. With our HC3 we have no worry at all. If any component of a node(memory, storage, motherboard, nics, power supply, etc) dies, the system carries on using the other nodes with no downtime. Then we just need to unplug the bad node and plug in the replacement and the system goes back to normal. (We have not had to do this so I have no realtime experience with just how painless this would be but I would be surprised if it was any harder than installing it in the rack, connecting the cables, and pushing the power button.)
- We have found HC3 to be very robust, and very cost effective, especially relative to more traditional storage and virtualization products