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Scale Computing Named Winner of CRN’s Annual Report Card (ARC) Award for the Fifth Consecutive Year

Solution Providers Rank Scale Computing Number One Channel Provider of Converged/Hyperconverged Infrastructure and Multicloud Software Platforms

INDIANAPOLIS – August 21, 2023 — Scale Computing, a market leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named the company as a winner in both the Converged/Hyperconverged Infrastructure and the Multicloud Software Platforms categories of the 2023 CRN Annual Report Card (ARC) Awards. This is the fifth consecutive year Scale Computing has been recognized as a CRN ARC Award winner, and the company once again swept all subcategories within each category of their win, including Product Innovation, Support, Partnership, and Managed & Cloud Services.

Winners will be featured throughout The Channel Company’s XChange 2023 conference, taking place this week in Nashville, TN. Scale Computing’s Kyle Fenske and Mike O’Neil will be at the conference to present their talk, “A New Way to Virtualize.” Attendees can meet with the Scale Computing team at booth number 901.

Powered by groundbreaking products, services, and partner programs, CRN’s ARC Awards recognize the industry’s top technology vendors. Through a survey of 3,300 solution providers across North America, 68 technology vendor partners were ranked across subcategories and recognized for their efforts to design channel-friendly product offerings, build strong partner programs, and develop long-term successful relationships with them. As a 38-year-old tradition with a reputation as one of the most prestigious honors in the IT industry, the awards honor best-in-class vendors committed to growing the IT channel through technology innovation and partner relations.

“We are deeply honored to be a repeat recipient of CRN’s ARC Award, which truly echoes the sentiments of our valued partners,” remarked Jeff Ready, Scale Computing CEO and co-founder. “To secure the top position in both Converged/Hyperconverged Infrastructure and Multicloud Software Platforms underscores our unwavering commitment to excellence, and to the success of our partners and customers. Scale Computing is a channel-first company with over 2,200 partners globally, and we invest heavily in making our partner community successful. From the beginning, our mission has been to redefine the vendor-partner relationship, setting new standards in customer and partner satisfaction. Our fifth-year win and sweep across all subcategories, surpassing our competitors once more, exemplifies our dedication to fulfilling that very pledge.”

The ARC Award win comes on the heels of other major channel award recognitions for Scale Computing, including CRN Tech Innovator, Top 100 Executives, Channel Chief, Women of the Channel, and a 5-star rating for the 2023 CRN Partner Program Guide. The award-winning Scale Computing Platform (SC//Platform) brings together simplicity and scalability, replacing existing infrastructure and providing high availability for running workloads in a single, easy-to-manage solution. SC//Platform eliminates complexity, lowers costs, reduces management time, and maximizes uptime, delivering faster time to value than competing solutions and enabling organizations to run applications in a unified environment that scales from 1 to 50,000 servers. Over the past year, the Scale Computing Partner Community has continued to grow its global partner base and has expanded its offerings with the launch of SC//Fleet Manager and introduction of the Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) and Secure Link features.

“It’s an honor to recognize these vendors that regularly deliver industry-leading products and services to further successful channel partner relationships,” said Blaine Raddon, CEO, The Channel Company. “In addition to showcasing our winners, CRN’s Annual Report Card Awards give vendors useful input and insight into how they stand with partners that can be implemented into their channel strategies going forward. We are excited to offer our congratulations to all the award recipients in person at XChange 2023 in August.”

Coverage of the CRN 2023 ARC results can be found online at www.CRN.com/ARC and will be featured in the October 2023 issue of CRN Magazine.

About Version 2 Digital

Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.

Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.

About Scale Computing 
Scale Computing is a leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions. Scale Computing HC3 software eliminates the need for traditional virtualization software, disaster recovery software, servers, and shared storage, replacing these with a fully integrated, highly available system for running applications. Using patented HyperCore™ technology, the HC3 self-healing platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and corrects infrastructure problems in real-time, enabling applications to achieve maximum uptime. When ease-of-use, high availability, and TCO matter, Scale Computing HC3 is the ideal infrastructure platform. Read what our customers have to say on Gartner Peer Insights, Spiceworks, TechValidate and TrustRadius.

New Survey Reveals Organizations Are Not Maximizing Their IT Infrastructure Investment Due to Complexity and Unreliability of Current Virtualization Software

Scale Computing Delivers a Simple, Secure, Reliable Alternative to Legacy Virtualization Provider

INDIANAPOLIS – August 16, 2023 – Scale Computing, the market leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions, today announced results of a recent survey with Spiceworks Ziff Davis around virtualization. Commissioned by Scale Computing to better understand the changing attitudes towards a major player in the virtualization space, the survey found that many users are unhappy with their current virtualization provider.

Today’s businesses rely on virtualization to drive efficiency for edge and distributed computing. With IT infrastructure costs on the rise, IT leaders and managers need to find the best and most reliable solution for their organization. The survey, conducted by Ziff Davis in May 2023 among 350 VMware users across a variety of job levels, company sizes, and industries in the US and the UK, showed that nearly half of surveyed customers found the value of VMware for the money below expectations. The number of respondents reporting poor value reflected a significant increase from the 2021 survey, which found approximately one-third of customers were dissatisfied with VMware meeting their expectations. The results revealed that users currently spend 16.8 hours a week on average managing and patching VMware solutions — up from 12.3 hours in 2021 — and that VMware organizations suffered from an average 34 hours of downtime in 2023, five hours more than just two years prior.

“More than half of business applications today are virtualized. Organizations need to maximize the potential of their IT infrastructure without worrying about increasing costs and the complexities of modern virtualization solutions. They also need to have confidence in their provider,” said Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder, Scale Computing. “On investor conference calls, VMware has stated that only 600 of their largest accounts will be prioritized. We know from the survey that nearly 40% of VMware users are concerned with the company’s acquisition. Scale Computing continues to be a leader in both the edge computing and virtualization space because of our innovative and reliable solutions, and we understand how important it is in the current climate to reduce costs and save time. A typical Scale Computing customer sees a reduction in ongoing management costs between 60 and 80 percent. Our hyperconverged approach provides the simple, secure, and affordable virtualization users need.”

Scale Computing Platform (SC//Platform) delivers faster time to value in the data center, in the distributed enterprise, and at the edge. Bringing simplicity, high availability, and scalability together, it replaces the existing infrastructure for running virtual machines with a single easy-to-manage, fully-integrated platform that allows organizations to run applications regardless of any hardware requirements.

Scale Computing is currently offering a no-cost migration service to new customers. To learn more about making the change to Scale Computing’s virtualization solutions, visit scalecomputing.com/vmware-alternative.


About Version 2 Digital

Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.

Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.

About Scale Computing 
Scale Computing is a leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions. Scale Computing HC3 software eliminates the need for traditional virtualization software, disaster recovery software, servers, and shared storage, replacing these with a fully integrated, highly available system for running applications. Using patented HyperCore™ technology, the HC3 self-healing platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and corrects infrastructure problems in real-time, enabling applications to achieve maximum uptime. When ease-of-use, high availability, and TCO matter, Scale Computing HC3 is the ideal infrastructure platform. Read what our customers have to say on Gartner Peer Insights, Spiceworks, TechValidate and TrustRadius.

Scale Computing’s Jeff Ready, Scott Mann Recognized on CRN’s 2023 Top 100 Executives List

INDIANAPOLIS – July 31, 2023 – Scale Computing, the market leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder, and Scott Mann, global channel chief, to its exclusive 2023 Top 100 Executives list.

CRN’s Top 100 Executives list acknowledges the tech visionaries who are setting the pace for the rest of the IT industry. The list honors executives impacting the IT channel across four subcategories: the 25 Most Influential Executives, Top 25 Channel Sales Leaders, Top 25 Innovators, and Top 25 Disruptors. Ready was named to the Top 25 Innovators subcategory, while Mann was named to the Top 25 Channel Sales Leaders subcategory.

Despite the past year’s challenging global economic environment, Ready led Scale Computing to increased sales and profitability, driven by its edge computing software platform, original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and channel partnerships, and the launch of SC//Fleet Manager with Zero-Touch Provisioning and Secure Link, the first cloud-hosted monitoring and management tool built for hyperconverged edge computing infrastructure at scale. Over the past year, Mann led the global channel team and continuously worked to improve the Scale Computing MSP program, while increasing revenue and average selling price (ASP) per partner.

“Innovation infiltrates everything we do at Scale Computing, from our highly reliable, scalable, and easy-to-manage solutions to our partner and customer relationships. We constantly seek to leverage that innovation to solve customer problems,” said Ready. “Scale Computing continues to be a leader in the emerging edge computing space and we’re very proud of the innovations we’ve made in the technology, products, and partnerships that help us work with enterprises of all sizes, all around the world, today.”

The annual Top 100 Executives list honors the passionate and hard-working technology executives who are supporting, growing, and redefining the IT channel. The executives named to the list have demonstrated their commitment to the channel and proved themselves as exemplary leaders through their innovative channel-focused strategies and initiatives.

“We’ve had tremendous success in the Scale Computing Partner Community over the past year with SC//Fleet Manager and it’s exciting to see how our end customers find more value and success with both our technology and their valued advisors in the channel partner community. I’m thrilled to be named on CRN’s 2023 Top 100 Executives list and look forward to continuing to lead and grow Scale Computing’s channel efforts worldwide,” said Mann.

“It is the bold and decisive who continue to dominate our annual list in the technology world.” said Blaine Raddon, CEO of The Channel Company. “Those featured on our CRN 2023 Top 100 Executives list demonstrate perpetual commitment to business growth, partner success, and IT innovation and aren’t afraid to push boundaries – even in a time of economic uncertainty.”

The Top 100 Executives list will be featured in the August 2023 issue of CRN Magazine and online at www.CRN.com/Top100. For more information on Scale Computing’s Partner Community, please visit https://www.scalecomputing.com/partners.

About Version 2 Digital

Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.

Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.

About Scale Computing 
Scale Computing is a leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions. Scale Computing HC3 software eliminates the need for traditional virtualization software, disaster recovery software, servers, and shared storage, replacing these with a fully integrated, highly available system for running applications. Using patented HyperCore™ technology, the HC3 self-healing platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and corrects infrastructure problems in real-time, enabling applications to achieve maximum uptime. When ease-of-use, high availability, and TCO matter, Scale Computing HC3 is the ideal infrastructure platform. Read what our customers have to say on Gartner Peer Insights, Spiceworks, TechValidate and TrustRadius.

Scale Computing Named a Winner for CRN’s 2023 Tech Innovator Award

Industry-First Cloud-Based Fleet Management Solution, Scale Computing Fleet Manager, Wins in Edge Computing/Internet of Things Category

INDIANAPOLIS – July 17, 2023 – Scale Computing, the market leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has chosen Scale Computing a winner for the 2023 CRN Tech Innovator Awards. The company is being recognized for its Scale Computing Fleet Manager (SC//Fleet Manager) in the Edge Computing/Internet of Things category.

Available as part of the award-winning Scale Computing Platform, SC//Fleet Manager is the industry-first cloud-based fleet management solution with both zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) and Secure Link features. The solution allows users to see and manage their entire fleet at once from an intuitive cloud-based console. ZTP provides cloud-like simplicity for administrators, allowing them to centrally configure clusters in SC//Fleet Manager prior to nodes arriving on-premises, decreasing the installation time by 90% or more. Secure Link enables cloud-like simplicity for administrators, allowing them to access the HyperCore UI for in-depth cluster management with the click of a button, without needing expensive or complex remote access solutions. Edge deployments are just a click away on any browser, on any device, anywhere.

“We pride ourselves on continuing to deliver innovative, intelligent, and simple edge computing solutions that enable customers to successfully and reliably deploy applications at the edge. SC//Fleet Manager consolidates real-time conditions for a fleet of clusters, including storage and compute resources, allowing MSPs and IT leaders to quickly identify areas of concern using a single pane of glass, for over 50,000 clusters,” said Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder of Scale Computing. “Scale Computing is thrilled to be honored by CRN and remains committed to providing our partners and customers with solutions that bring simplicity and scalability together, replacing existing infrastructure and providing high availability for running workloads, regardless of any hardware requirements. We’re excited to be named a CRN Tech Innovator again this year.”

This annual award showcases innovative vendors in the IT channel across 37 different technology categories, in key areas ranging from cloud to storage to networking to security. To determine the 2023 winners, a panel of CRN editors reviewed hundreds of vendor entries—including solution provider testimonials—using multiple criteria, including key capabilities, uniqueness, technological ingenuity, and ability to address customer and partner needs.

“CRN’s annual Tech Innovator Awards acknowledge technology vendors committed to new and updated products that are creating the biggest opportunities for the solution providers and strategic service providers working on the front lines with customers.” said Blaine Raddon, CEO of The Channel Company. “Congratulations to each one of this year’s CRN Tech Innovator Award winners. We are proud to recognize these best-in-class vendors that are driving transformation and innovation in the IT space.”

The Tech Innovator Awards will be featured in the August issue of CRN and can be viewed online at crn.com/techinnovators. For more information on SC//Fleet Manager, visit scalecomputing.com/sc-fleet-manager.

About Version 2 Digital

Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.

Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.

About Scale Computing 
Scale Computing is a leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions. Scale Computing HC3 software eliminates the need for traditional virtualization software, disaster recovery software, servers, and shared storage, replacing these with a fully integrated, highly available system for running applications. Using patented HyperCore™ technology, the HC3 self-healing platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and corrects infrastructure problems in real-time, enabling applications to achieve maximum uptime. When ease-of-use, high availability, and TCO matter, Scale Computing HC3 is the ideal infrastructure platform. Read what our customers have to say on Gartner Peer Insights, Spiceworks, TechValidate and TrustRadius.

Edge In Depth: 5 Key Edge Computing Topologies

If you’ve spent any time in the networking trenches, you’ve no doubt spent many hours puzzling over an assortment of network topology charts. These visual representations of a network tell an important story of how the various components in a network are connected to each other and how data is transferred between its constituent nodes.

These topologies are more than just fancy diagrams – they essentially serve as a living blueprint that describes how a network functions and data is routed. Choosing the right topology will go a long way towards improving the performance and efficiency of your network, as well as help to rationalize how certain resources should be allocated and can provide a roadmap that’s essential for troubleshooting when network connectivity issues arise.

Over the past few decades, a wide variety of network topologies have been established, each of which caters to a specific environment or use case. However, as the network continues its inexorable march towards the edge – where connectivity can be intermittent and skilled resources are scarce – we will likely see a number of new topologies arise that take these constraints into consideration.

As Alan R. Earls, author of The Gorilla Guide to: Enabling IT at the Edge, notes in his explanation of the most likely edge topologies: “While the never-ending evolution of information technologies makes it hard to predict exactly what topologies will emerge or seem most appealing in the future, there are currently several strong contenders for edge computing.” These five edge topologies include:

1. Regional Data Center Edge: CDN, Telecom DC, Colocation.

This might be a service provider configuration with multiple tenants and, in comparison with other edge computing scenarios, is typically a very large-scale operation that differs from a traditional data center only in its relationship to an even larger central data center and in usually having a narrower focus.

2. Local Data Center Edge: Small Data Center, Micro Data Center.

This type of edge computing is likely general-service-oriented, perhaps for a remote office or branch office and is characterized by low or no staffing.

3. Gateway Edge: Intelligent Local/Field Gateway

This typically comprises a small cell or access point, such as a video management software (VMS) surveillance system and offers zero touch provisioning (ZTP) and configuration management.

4. Device Edge: Embedded Computing Devices and Traditional PLCs.

This type of edge, typically a single machine or work cell, has only enough intelligence to assist with a specific operation and provide some de- gree of reporting.

5. Compute Edge: Edge Server/Storage Outside of a Data Center.

Examples of this type of true edge computing potentially have the ability to include specialized services, such as video analytics-based applications and likely include ZTP.

It’s important to note that these topologies aren’t rigid. There are gray areas and some edge implementations can actually include multiple topologies. However, in most instances, one is clearly predominant.

To learn more about what future edge topologies might look like, download Scale Computing’s free ebook: “The Gorilla Guide to: Enabling IT at the Edge”

About Version 2 Digital

Version 2 Digital is one of the most dynamic IT companies in Asia. The company distributes a wide range of IT products across various areas including cyber security, cloud, data protection, end points, infrastructures, system monitoring, storage, networking, business productivity and communication products.

Through an extensive network of channels, point of sales, resellers, and partnership companies, Version 2 offers quality products and services which are highly acclaimed in the market. Its customers cover a wide spectrum which include Global 1000 enterprises, regional listed companies, different vertical industries, public utilities, Government, a vast number of successful SMEs, and consumers in various Asian cities.

About Scale Computing 
Scale Computing is a leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions. Scale Computing HC3 software eliminates the need for traditional virtualization software, disaster recovery software, servers, and shared storage, replacing these with a fully integrated, highly available system for running applications. Using patented HyperCore™ technology, the HC3 self-healing platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and corrects infrastructure problems in real-time, enabling applications to achieve maximum uptime. When ease-of-use, high availability, and TCO matter, Scale Computing HC3 is the ideal infrastructure platform. Read what our customers have to say on Gartner Peer Insights, Spiceworks, TechValidate and TrustRadius.