Scale Computing Platform

We use Scale Computing Platform to host our production servers in a virtual environment. The ability to scale out our VMs according to our business needs is a great help. We are a Small-to-Medium Business and the ability to be "hands off" with our hosting platform has been a great help.

• Positive: Having our hardware, software, and support costs under one umbrella makes it easy to track renewals and compare year-to-year costs.
• Positive: 5-year terms on software/support allows us to essentially depreciate costs over a longer period.
• Negative: In order to upscale our cluster, we cannot add individual components to our nodes like with other competitors. The cost of adding a node just to get additional storage or memory can be painful.

VMware ESXi, Hyper-V and XenServer

Remote Desktop Manager, Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, FortiClient

As the Automation Professional for a large pasta manufacturer, I use the SCALE computing platform to host all of the plant's automation servers. As a 24/7-363 operation, these systems are critical for our day-to-day operations. We have been using the SCALE computing system for five years and have found it to be reliable, easy to operate, and manageable. In the rare case when I've had to call for technical support, the service has been prompt and professional. I would highly recommend SCALE Computing and their products!

• Easy to create VM's save time and money on development.
• VM's can be spun up quickly and dynamically without the need to upgrade hardware.

FactoryTalk by Rockwell Automation

Scale Platform allowed us to migrate several of our aging bare metal systems to a virtualized environment that allowed us greater redundancy, lower operating costs, and easier management. Despite being a small company, we had many initiatives that required in-house systems for development and production. Additionally, a reluctance to move our services to the cloud prompted us to run the services we needed (email, file services, database services) on systems we personally maintained. The use of Scale provided a more efficient and cost-effective solution for managing the individual group of on-premise systems.

• Lower power costs.
• Simplified management = more hours spent innovating.
• Responsiveness to client and staff computer resource requirements.
• Fully integrated backups for easy and fast recovery.

VMware ESXi and CentOS Linux

Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft IIS

Scale Computing cluster used for production environment along with DR node for backup offsite. We didn't have one before and this replicates well.

• All positive
• Easier to use than non-converged

Dell VxRail, HPE SimpliVity and Cisco Compute Hyperconverged with Nutanix

Scale Computing Platform has replaced our previous environment which was a mixture of physical servers and a different, more complicated virtual environment. The previous environment was harder to use, and used quite a bit more energy, which once caused a power surge that forcefully powered down everything. Since switching to Scale Computing Platform, the environment is easy to use and manage, we have lower electricity costs, and any issues that have occurred were handled quickly and easily by support. We recently replaced our Scale Computing Platform cluster with a newer version, and the process was seamless.

VMware vSphere

MSP360 Managed Backup, Bitdefender GravityZone