Scale Computing Platform

Scale Computing Platform

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Scale Computing Platform	Score7.9 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	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…	$249 per year per core

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Scale Computing Platform

Standard: $249
per year per core
Professional: $312
per year per core
Professional Essentials: $5,600
one-time fee

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Scale Computing Platform
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	Scale Computing Platform
Considered Both Products	Scale Computing Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale is much less expensive than VMWare and much more user-friendly than Linux. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform The scale is as robust as VMware's but needs more vendor support, such as VEEAM, for backup. Scale overall costs caused us to move to the platform to reduce our overall costs from hardware and maintenance costs. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform I have found Scale Computing Platform to be a lot simpler. I don't need to have a vSphere server running. I don't have to worry about my predecessor leaving my SAN carved up into small buckets, etc. I also don't need hearing protection when I am in the server room now, so … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform I used VMware when it first came out and for several years after that but then took a break from it for years. When I came back, it was way too complicated and ultimately was too much work to learn and make useful in our environment. Scale Computing Platform was so attractive … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform These other alternatives are much more expensive and lack the ease of use that Scale Computing Platform provides. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform I'm fairly well versed in traditional VMWare installations on a variety of hardware, and even HP's first attempts at hyperconverged infrastructure. Scale Computing Platform is much easier to implement than any of those. 3 1U machines, no external storage, no SAN switch to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform We used a mixture of VMWare and stand-alone servers prior to moving to the Scale Computing Platform. After the initial investment, this has lowered our cost to maintain our server environment. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform VM management is easier and faster. Snapshot management is easier and faster. User accounts are simpler to manage (though less granular). Basic alerts are easier to setup, though VMWare has a more granular approach. Updates to the Scale Computing Platform itself is so much … Incentivized Helpful? Bob OKeefe Director of Technologies in Information Technology at City of Gardner (Government Administration, 201-500 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform We previously used Microsoft Hyper V and VMWare and, before that, a room for single-purpose servers. My satisfaction with Scale is because it is a more straightforward product to install and use; it has incredible speed and reliability. In the past, getting support from … Incentivized Helpful? Carlos Coque System Administrator in Information Technology at IBEX Payroll Services (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform We ended up choosing Scale Computing Platform 4 years ago because that had better pricing than the other players and would offer everything we elected as pre-requisite for our system to work. Today, after several years using their system with no major issues, we can say it was … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform This does everything I need with an on-prem server setup for virtual machines. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform We evaluated HP, VMware and Dell. These systems were all outside our budget (very substantially, in some cases) or required more management to deploy than Scale Computing Platform. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform Even though SCP uses parts of KVM, their approach is an engineers dream: you order, you deploy, you are productive. oVirt is also a very sophisticated product, but the learning curve for us was a bit steep Incentivized Helpful? KC Casto Sr. Network Admin in Information Technology at Stockmeier (Chemicals, 51-200 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale has all the required features for failover and system availability that any other product has at a better price point. User interface is much easier to understand and is not cluttered with things you don't need. Incentivized Helpful? Syed Fahad Hussain IT Busniess Partner_HR in Information Technology at Tapal Tea (Food & Beverages, 201-500 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale computing platform fix all our problem that's one shop solution for us. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform Under 10 nodes and less than 2 sites, I would rather sell and support Scale. It's just as fast as any other HCI and more stable then VXRail. It's easier to setup and deploy, and get VM's running, and replicating between CLUSTERS. The only reason I would not consider Scale … Incentivized Helpful? Joao Camargo System Administrator in Information Technology at Servix (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale Computing Platform provided all the functionalities we needed for our daily operations, with features that align with our processes. It has the advantage of a unified software package, without add-ons, which proved to be a financial advantage during the acquisition. It … Incentivized Helpful? Romuel Imperial Product Sales Manager in Sales at Synetcom Philippines Inc. (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform I have chosen Scale Computing Platform over the Nutanix for this reasons, #1 is the price difference between Scale Computing Platform and Nutanix. #2 is the complexity and ease of use of both solutions. In my opinion, Scale Computing Platform is way above nutanix as to the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform Overall Scale may not have the advertised name as the others but it surpasses the competition in all areas. Incentivized Helpful? Chad Mayton Network Analyst in Information Technology at Kinetik (Oil & Energy, 201-500 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform Price was outstanding, and competitive equipment wasn't an issue due to them using various brands and models. Sales reps were responsive, professional, and jumped through time hurdles with ease. Partnership with Acronis is a huge benefit, and the Carbonite license to move … Incentivized Helpful? Sara Fair Information Technology Manager in Information Technology at Williams Construction (Construction, 11-50 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform Easier to use, better performance. Incentivized Helpful? Rob Honma CTO in Information Technology at Santa Fe Christian Schools (Education Management, 201-500 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform Cheaper, better, us-based support. Easier Administration. Lacks 3rd party backup and disaster recovery (bare-metal) A lot of people just have never heard of Scale Computing Platform so it's tough to figure out what the best on-prem, cloud-based DR services to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform I have used both Hyper-V and VMWare. I continue to run a Hyper-V cluster and think it's great. More work to setup than the Scale nodes. VMWare is too expensive for education and not worth the time in my opinion. Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
	100% Would buy again 73 Answers
	Delivers good value for the price
	100% Delivers good value for the price 72 Answers
	Happy with the feature set
	100% Happy with the feature set 73 Answers
	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
	99% Lived up to sales and marketing promises 71 Answers
	Implementation went as expected
93% Implementation went as expected 67 Answers

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User Ratings
	Scale Computing Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	9.9 (244 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.4 (22 ratings)
Usability	7.5 (40 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (1 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (245 ratings)
In-Person Training	1.0 (1 ratings)
Online Training	9.1 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (2 ratings)
Configurability	9.1 (1 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Scale Computing Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	Scale Computing Scale is best suited to environments that do not have excessive external or proprietary peripherals. Integrating with tape drive backups or robot tape libraries can be problematic. The most effective use of Scale systems is for companies running multiple instances of the same operating system. The hypervisor's code/file-sharing nature does an excellent job managing new instances while keeping the increase in storage to a minimum. Verified User Read full review
Pros	Scale Computing Simplicity - I do not have to create storage buckets or micromanage anything. Efficiency - Lower power use since moving to a hyperconverged environment. Scalability - Adding additional hardware is easy, and increasing things like the amount of RAM or number of cores is easy. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Cons	Scale Computing Dedicated Lights-Out Solution for low-end systems Ability to replace smaller storage drives with larger ones, rather than requiring the addition of an entire node for storage increases Different UI views for VMs: ability to minimize certain groups and have that persist through log-ins Seth Wheeler Systems Administrator I Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Scale Computing Since I have had no issues with downtime; easier management of my cluster and the ability to lower the number of devices in my Infrastructure, I will gladly renew my support contract with Scale Computing HC3 and upgrade my equipment with them when it comes time for it. Incentivized Brian Dunk Director of Technology Read full review
Usability	Scale Computing Everything you need to do is point-and-click easy. If you are the kind of admin who wants to edit every config file and endlessly customize your environment, then Scale may not be for you. On the other hand, if you just want it to work really well, and do what they told you it will do, then Scale is the ideal system. Incentivized David Roden Director Of Technology Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Scale Computing Never had an outage or an error. Once a hard drive failed, but Scale kept on working flawlessly without interruption. Incentivized Mark Simmons Director Of Technology Read full review
Performance	Scale Computing Performance has been just as outstanding as reliability. I have never experienced delays in any aspect of usage. Incentivized Mark Simmons Director Of Technology Read full review
Support Rating	Scale Computing They are very knowledgeable about their own products and hardware addressing my concerns or issues very quickly and on the first contact. Calls concerning VMware migrations and Acronis backup took a little more time for more complicated issues, but the Scale Computing Platform techs were diligent to stay on top of issues until they were resolved. Most of my issues have been with the initial setup/migration. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
In-Person Training	Scale Computing I did not do in-person training. Incentivized Mark Simmons Director Of Technology Read full review
Online Training	Scale Computing Because Scale is so simple, the training is just as quick and easy. Incentivized Mark Simmons Director Of Technology Read full review
Implementation Rating	Scale Computing The implementation was very easy. We had Scale support on standby and they were ready and eager to help if needed. The process went so fast the employees in the organization did not even know it was done. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Scale Computing We previously used Microsoft Hyper V and VMWare and, before that, a room for single-purpose servers. My satisfaction with Scale is because it is a more straightforward product to install and use; it has incredible speed and reliability. In the past, getting support from Microsoft was labor intensive, and with VMWare, there was a language accent barrier. Incentivized Bob OKeefe Director of Technologies Read full review
Scalability	Scale Computing HC3 is one of the best products I have purchased for our district. It is unbelievably reliable to the point that they shoot themselves in the foot on support contracts. Incentivized Mark Simmons Director Of Technology Read full review
Return on Investment	Scale Computing With the high cost of the leading competitor the savings starts day one and saves every year after. Scale can be administered by a tier one technician so cost of labor is reduced. If there is a problem like a cyber attack, the savings kick in with the least amount of downtime. Incentivized Verified User Read full review
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