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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
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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
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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 |
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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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August 11, 2017
ScaleComputing... The mother of all VMs!
- Increased our overall service up-time significantly
- Allowing IT to act quickly when needing to make any changes to our production servers
- Having the piece of mind that we can recover from a disaster situation from our remote DR (a feature we never had prior to moving to HC3)
June 26, 2017
HC3, a small business hyper-converged solution.
- Unfortunately, I was not working here when our HC3 system was purchased and installed. I did however assist in the migration of servers. I don't have hard numbers, but I know that support costs have dropped significantly, because the hardware that we are running on reliable, and predictable.
- Our previous server was a stand alone box, and we had to have an online backup solution. Now, our entire cluster is synchronized to an identical offsite cluster, and we don't have to pay for the monthly costs for the backup.
- Scale frees me up from looking after my infrastructure so that I can engage in revenue generating activities. Pretty hard to argue with that as a net result. I cost $100k/year. I used to have to put at least 40% of my time into keeping the lights on. So right off the bat Scale frees up nearly $40k/year for us, and that's before I factor in things like not having to buy shared storage, or other headline savings.
- The only negative impact Scale has for us is that unlike previous solutions, we aren't provided with spares of consumables (read: hard drives) to keep on the shelf for when something dies. The time between drive failure and the new drive arriving in the post is a bit nerve wracking.
- The biggest thing for us was the time savings in management. There are only two IT personnel onsite and as you can image, running 30-40 servers and the users is a time consuming process. Scale takes literally all the management of hardware and servers away. The system alerts us if there are any issues and we just keep working on the business drivers rather than taking care of hardware and cluster management.
June 20, 2017
How we benefited from our Scale HC3 cluster
- System downtime outside of scheduled updates has gone away. We were struggling with our old system as the age of the system caught up we were experiencing more and more down time. Even once age is equivalent on this system I have a comfort level that if we have a node go down the fail over is so smooth that users will not be affected by the outage.
- We were so happy with the HC3 system and the benefits that it brought that we updated one of our other systems to another scale unit. The remote management and console support has allowed us to keep our lean staffing and still have up time numbers to be proud of.
June 20, 2017
Love Scale Computing. Great company.
- Positive: Scale has increased productivity by reducing the exposure to hardware related downtime.
June 19, 2017
I scale'd up will you - best decision I made.
- Our server uptime has increased tenfold
- RTO and RPO windows have decreased dramatically
- We leveraged the Scale infrastructure to obtain SOC 1 certification
- Reduced power consumption in the server room
- Reduce heat generated in server room by installing scale and removing legacy server infrastructure
- Reduced cost on server OS licenses
June 19, 2017
Scale Computing HC3 is a no brainer
- Less hardware to manage
- Lower energy cost
- Less time to deployment
June 19, 2017
Ease of Use!
- Our Scale has reaped tangible benefits simply by providing on the fly server functionality at the drop of a hat. And anyone can learn it.
June 19, 2017
Scale vs. VMware (Scale Wins)
- Scale has allowed us to grow our product without the fear of every growing VMware licensing and server fees.
June 12, 2017
My life with Scale Computing.
- I haven't had any real problems or changesd in my system in the pass 2 years.
June 12, 2017
Scale Rocks
- Less hardware server overhead to maintain.
- Great support for less downtime.
June 12, 2017
Scale HC3 - The value in hyper-converged computing
- Purchasing a Scale Cluster, instead of one off server from Dell, has allowed us to rapidly expand our server base without managing or maintaining a mixture of hardware models. This took a substantial up-front investment but over the life-cycle of the cluster is expected to result in reduced cost.
June 12, 2017
Tired of VMWare - Scale up to a better solution!
- VMWare Licensing in itself along with NOT using VEEAM has provided huge savings to our bottom line
- With our hyperconverged, node-based solution, we don't see a need to examine hardware or hypervisors at any time in the foreseeable future. Nor do we find ourselves worrying about imminent hardware deterioration. These are massive weights off the server administrator's mind.
- Our Senior Sys Analyst has the objective of "leaving this place in such good shape that you could run it all by yourself." HC3 has been a measurable and significant step toward that end.
June 08, 2017
My Scale Computing HC3 Review
- Moving to a new location and to a new network was easy and required less setup and configuration.
- The management of all the Carepacks, licensing and service agreements for all of the servers we use to have has been eliminated.
June 07, 2017
Hardware that is reliable
- Everything has been positive so far with Scale. Our up-time has been the best it's ever been. Out ROI on that alone makes the purchase worth it.
June 07, 2017
Tipping the Scale in hyper-convergence for SMB
- Scale Computing has allowed us to reduce the number of physical servers in the data center, and made maintaining the servers and applications easier and worry free.
June 07, 2017
Scale Computing HC3 Review
- The Scale HC3 cluster has moved us into a high-availability server setup that keeps our servers/apps online. It's hard to quantify this in terms of dollars, but having all of our apps up and running is invaluable to the company.
- As mentioned in the Pros, we implemented Scale builtin Snapshot/Replication feature to send server snapshots to 2 off-site DR nodes every night. If a catastrophe were to happen at our main site, we could be up and running with all of our servers within minutes to hours at our DR site. Not days/weeks via the old disk/tape restore method. Not having our servers up and running for a week or more could stress the business to the breaking point. Same as the bullet point above, this feature is invaluable to the company.
- Reduction of power and heat. I didn't calculate the savings, but we reduced our physical server footprint from around 20 to 4. This saves on power, both on the draw by the servers and by less running of the air conditioning units.
June 07, 2017
Scale - Vision - Implementation - Stable - GREAT!
- The sense of having a backup ready and able to restore.
- The opportunity to have off-site replication or to a node off property for off-site backups.
- The ability to create and manage in a stable and easy to use GUI/entire System.
June 06, 2017
Scale Computing helped this SMB grow
- The ROI was met in year two solely off the savings of getting us off VMware and allowing us to add more VMs to both locations.
- One negative so far is the lack of backup ability for KVM VMs. No VM backup - only at an agent level.
June 06, 2017
Dead Simple to use and Amazing support
- We were previously spending 3k a month hosting these services with a local MSP. After Scale that bill went down to zero. We recovered our investment in less then a year.
- Previously when adding a new server or VM we had to pay additional monthly rate for every VM or service. With Scale we can spin up a new VM at anytime without any additional monthly cost.
- Because it is easy to use and configure we spend very minimal hours managing or babysitting the cluster this saves on labor costs for all IT staff.
June 06, 2017
Scale up
- We have had absolutely no downtime in the 2 years that we have been running Scale
- When a new App is required, we have been able to spin up a new VM within minutes of identifiying the need.