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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
On Premise
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- Setup fee optional
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Starting price (does not include set up fee)
- $3,300 per node
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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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SC//Platform Success Story - Detroit Symphony Orchestra
SC//Platform Success Story - American Foundry Group
SC//Platform Success Story - Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township
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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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January 29, 2018
Scale Review
- No real positive or negative impact
- No real positive or negative impact
- No real positive or negative impact
January 26, 2018
Scale HC3 is the Best
- Saved us a ton on hardware
- Saved us a ton on licenses
- Saved us a ton on support and consultant fees
January 25, 2018
Scale Rules
- It has saved us a lot of money on RAID cabinets that we had before we purchased Scale. Our return on investment was less then 3 years.
January 24, 2018
Scale is worth a look!
- Upon initial installation we were able to migrate 10 physical servers into the cluster of three. This had the immediate benefit of a reduced electrical and thermal load in the data center.
January 23, 2018
Simply Amazing, the Node Cluster that can't be beat!
- We have ended up saving money due to less hardware purchases from the capacity given to us during the initial purchase of Scale Computing.
- We went from 6 servers and 2 NAS down to a 4 Node Cluster with a single NAS for off site replication. This has dropped our Power capacity by 1/4 saving us costs with our Data Center
- We are able to mange the Cluster from a single portal. This has cut our management time in half and allowed us to work on other items and less worrying about our Node Cluster.
January 23, 2018
Scale Computing HC3 Review
- When considering providing the ability to provide redundancy and fail over protection, nothing comes close to Scale for overall price. As a comparison, we considered getting two physical servers as opposed to this Scale system. We found that, in order to provide the computing power needed, each server would be in the area of $15k each, before operating systems. Additionally, each server would need to handle multiple services and applications that can cause problems when run on the same machine.
- We have immediately felt the positive impact this system has provided as we lost the outgoing server sooner than anticipated. I was able to immediately regain control of the domain, finalize the move and retire the old system with little impact to the end-user.
January 22, 2018
My Weigh In on Scale Computing
- It has had nothing but positive impact. We love being able to have a centralized hub for to run business-critical services and applications.
- Updates have served us well, with new features to equip or cluster with.
January 22, 2018
A worthy investment
- Flexibility of systems allows us to justify the cost.
- Small footprint, 1U of rack space for a multitude of functions.
- Scale has reduced our overall costs of running systems on VMware by at least $30,000.
January 19, 2018
Time to Replace VMware ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V with Scale HC3
- A pending iSCSI Storage array hardware refresh cycle and VMware maintenance update can provide enough funds to replace all of that with a new Scale HC3 Cluster that also drastically reduces on-going support and maintenance costs. The ROI is under one year.
- Your IT staffing costs will decrease as will your outside IT support costs for running virtualized clusters with shared storage.
- Most businesses never actually get around to deploying multi-site replication because it's too expensive and far too hard to do and maintain. Scale HC3 makes all that easy and automatic.
January 19, 2018
Scale helped consolidate our network needs into one solution
- We were able to reduce our maintenance costs by 50% with the scale solution by eliminating the need for a separate SAN, DR, and virtual server solution.
- We are saving money by not having to upgrade/replace outdated San, DR and server hardware
- IT maintenance time has been greatly reduced with an all-in-one solid solution
January 17, 2018
Net Admin
- Troubleshooting times have decreased.
- Support issues have decreased due to only have to call one vendor.
- Availability of our VM's has increased
- Space in our server room as increase and temperatures have decreased which is really important to us.
January 16, 2018
Good for simple deployments.
- No change.
January 15, 2018
Scale Support Nightmare
- It is performing better than our old physical servers
- Not sure what to expect in case of failure, knowing Scale support capabilities
- Can't add any more servers as Sales under sold the hardware and now not giving quotes to upgrade RAM. Pushing to buy complete new node.
January 15, 2018
Scale Computing - A+ on cost and function.
- 1st, We didn't have to purchase additional VMWare software which saved us about 40% up front. Also no ongoing maintenance costs for that add-on layer of software.
- We spend much less time in our Scale management software than we did in VMWare managing resources and server issues so our internal support time is cut drastically. I would say we spend at least 50% less time maintaining our virtual environment than we did in the past.
- A fully functional Disaster Recovery plan was affordable using Scale. This gives us the relief knowing that we are protected from a disaster and it is more cost-effective. To replicate the environment we have now with other hardware and VMWare licensing for both our main computer room and disaster recovery site would have almost doubled our project costs.
January 15, 2018
Scale - what others are weighed against!
- Best ROI of any infrastructure software that I have encountered. We were looking at upgrading servers and the various virtual licenses and found the Scale solution a much better solution.
January 15, 2018
Scale Computing HC3 Review
- Reduced management cost
January 15, 2018
Scale HC3 Review
- Able to have a much denser virtual environment
January 12, 2018
Scale
- Positive so far on saving money
- Support costs are reasonable
- Initial sizing was way off so had to buy more before we expected to
January 11, 2018
Solid option for SMBs who don't want to spend their time administering virtual environments.
- Scale was a much more cost-effective option than other hyperconverged solutions we looked, or when compared to the cost of refreshing our previous environment of HP servers and a SAN. And that is before you look at the cost savings of not having to pay for a recurring VMWare license!
January 11, 2018
Scale Computing HC3
- Server licensing is simpler and more cost effective.
- Costs are reduced in regards to hardware failure, etc. due to support contracts.
- Support services very cost effective.
January 10, 2018
Scale saved me from a VMware upgrade nightmare!
- Prevented expensive VMware upgrade
- My boss loves no monthly fees
- Cost so much less - I used the money for network upgrades too
January 10, 2018
Review of our Scale HC3 system
- To be honest - It's still a bit early to accurately tell our ROI -- But so far, we are happy.
January 10, 2018
Scale delivers manageability and power savings
- Power Savings, really quickly we noticed we have to air condition less. Our UPS is also able to add additional run time to Scale when compared to the 9 servers we had previously, now just 3 nodes.
- Less time looking at hardware issues.
- Quick resolution of any issues that have cropped up (not many)
January 10, 2018
Scale HC3 - It's for me.
- Improved UPtime
- Allows us to focus on other issues since this is not a time-consuming or difficult task