INDIANAPOLIS – May 10, 2021 – Scale Computing, a market leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions, announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Marlena Fernandez, vice president of marketing, to its 2021 Power 100 list, an elite subgroup of standout individuals selected from the annual CRN® Women of the Channel list, for the second consecutive year.

The women honored on this year’s list pushed forward with comprehensive business plans, marketing initiatives and other innovative ideas to support their partners and customers, helping them through the uncertainty brought on by the global COVID-19 pandemic. CRN celebrates these exceptional women for their leadership, dedication and channel advocacy.

The CRN editorial team chose the annual Power 100 honorees based on their contributions, expertise and dedication to supporting IT channel success. The Power 100 award recognizes a select group of incredible women who have gone above and beyond — inspiring their peers through their leadership and unwavering commitment to the success of their partners, customers and the entire IT channel.

Fernandez joined the Scale Computing team in 2019 and was the first executive to be named to the CRN Women of the Channel list and the Power 100 list. Over the past year, she helped shift the company’s focus to give Scale Computing’s partners a broader solutions portfolio to share with their end customers. Fernandez was instrumental in driving the company’s commitment to growing its business with the partner community and better enabling them to successfully meet their end users’ IT infrastructure needs. She also played a critical role in expanding Scale Computing’s partner base by nearly double, growing customers and revenue by 45% in 2020.

“Marlena is a key influential member of our executive team, bringing insights from her years of results-oriented global marketing experience to help Scale Computing reach its strategic goals,” said Dave Hallmen, chief revenue officer at Scale Computing. “Her continued commitment to growing our business through our award winning Scale Computing Partner Community and strong leadership makes Marlena very deserving of this recognition for the second consecutive year. For the remainder of 2021 she will help lead our continued focus on bringing edge computing and hyperconverged solutions to large enterprises, solution providers and select industry segments.”

“CRN’s 2021 Women of the Channel list acknowledges accomplished, influential women whose dedication, hard work, and leadership accelerate channel growth,” said Blaine Raddon, CEO of The Channel Company. “We are proud to honor them for their many accomplishments and look forward to their continued contributions to the IT channel.”

The 2021 Women of the Channel and Power 100 award will be featured in CRN Magazine on May 10th and online at www.CRN.com/WOTC.

INDIANAPOLIS, April 28, 2021— Scale Computing, a market leader in edge computing, virtualization and hyperconverged solutions, today announced that Parallels® Remote Application Server (RAS) 18 is now available and optimized on Scale Computing HC3. When combined with Parallels RAS, Scale Computing HC3 enables administrators to rapidly provision and manage virtual machines (VM) along with RDSH sessions and applications centrally from the Parallels RAS Console to make Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions faster, more affordable and easier to use.

Parallels RAS automatically generates and deploys VDI desktops on demand, enabling administrators to create and deploy guest VMs on the fly and create a master virtual desktop once and rapidly clone hundreds of virtual desktops on their HC3 Cluster. They can quickly and securely deliver Windows applications and desktops, and Parallels RAS integrates with Windows Virtual Desktop to provide unified workload and resource management. Parallels RAS provides a simple, consistent user experience on any device (including smartphones and laptops), from any location.

“Parallels Remote Application Server (RAS) makes VDI solutions quick to deploy, easy to manage and affordable—improving security, centralizing management and reducing IT workloads,” said Nick Dobrovolskiy, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Support at Parallels. “The combination of Parallels RAS 18 and Scale Computing HC3 autonomous infrastructure delivers increased options, customizations and resources to IT organizations for new levels of infrastructure flexibility and employee productivity.”

Scale Computing HC3 is a hyperconverged and edge IT infrastructure platform that combines servers, storage and virtualization capabilities into a single solution to make IT infrastructure easier for organizations of every size. The platform works exceptionally well in VDI environments across all verticals and organizations requiring simple, secure and low-maintenance IT infrastructure options.

“The ability for administrators to deploy, manage and grow their VDI environments easily is more important than ever in today’s work-from-anywhere environments,” said Craig Theriac, VP Product Management at Scale Computing. “The integration of Parallels RAS 18 with Scale Computing HC3 advances the ability to provision VDI VM’s easier and faster than legacy VDI solutions at a cost-effective price point that meets our customer’s needs.”

Availability:

Parallels® Remote Application Server (RAS) 18 optimized on Scale Computing HC3 is now available in the Americas, Asia, and Oceania. For more information about Scale Computing and Parallels RAS visit, https://www.scalecomputing.com/parallels.

INDIANAPOLIS – April 13, 2021 – Scale Computing, a market leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions, today announced ongoing momentum with customers in the manufacturing industry, as HC3 Edge and IT infrastructure solutions continue to enable manufacturers of all sizes and geographic distributions to optimize operations with self-healing, automated infrastructure for all applications on the plant floor and beyond.

“The manufacturing industry has undergone transformational changes on so many fronts this past year – from supply chain challenges, to shifting product demands, to being an increasing target of cyber-attacks,” said Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder of Scale Computing. “Plants of all sizes require easy to deploy and manage, localized compute infrastructure technology that is secure and resilient. Our HC3 Edge Computing solutions enable manufacturers to optimize their operations across the globe with self-healing, automated infrastructure that helps them grow.”

With the proper compute platform in place, manufacturing firms across all industries can deliver improved plant management, monitoring, security, productivity, and lower TCO, while keeping critical data and teams safe. Scale Computing HC3 software and appliances free IT teams from the complexity and costs of traditional IT, allowing them to focus more on furthering business needs.

Harrison Steel Castings is a world leader in the production of highly engineered carbon and low/medium alloy steel castings and operates electric arc furnaces and other precision machinery across a 650,000 square foot factory floor. Networking these machines was cost prohibitive, so staff previously resorting to using USB drives for data transfer. Implementing Scale Computing HC3 Edge solutions has helped the company address the outdated and unreliable systems previously in place that were preventing growth and slowing down business.

Shane Rogers, IT director at Harrison Steel Castings Company, noted, “Previously, our IT infrastructure was frequently running out of memory, failing to function properly and requiring frequent maintenance. With HC3, the system is so simple to operate, it runs on its own. It greatly improves reliability, reduces complexity, and gives us the ability to grow our IT infrastructure. We have a lot of big projects on the horizon, and we’re excited by how much closer they are to achieve now. We are set up for greater success knowing we can set up HC3, and it will run on its own without much oversight. This enables us to help our customers and focus on providing them with high-quality cast solutions.”

Ventura Foods, which delivers custom food solutions to foodservice, food manufacturing, and retail customers, faces the same IT challenges as many manufacturers, combined with the lower margins (and therefore budgets) that are the standard in the food industry. Overseeing 19 locations throughout the U.S. and Canada, the COVID pandemic and related limits on travel and plant access forced their lean IT team to get even more creative than before.

“In this current climate, with uncertainty around when we will be allowed to go out to a location, we needed to make deployment ‘Ikea simple’,” said Wally Wheadon, Director of IT Infrastructure at Ventura Foods. “With Scale Computing we are able to build out a device, put it back in its box, send it out, and anyone with some basic skills at the facility can put it into a rack, put the color-coded connections together, and be up and running and able to recover from one site to another.”

Wheadon continued, “My advice is that if you’re trying to simplify your environment, and also position yourself for whatever that next level of compute infrastructure may look like while still being tethered to some of your past, you have to look at Scale Computing.”

Benchmark Electronics, Inc., a global provider of engineering, design, and manufacturing services, knew that their manufacturing sites were due a refresh, and ideally also wanted to reduce spend and simplify IT operations. They aimed to have a centralized and standard IT infrastructure that would be more strategic and cost effective across their global manufacturing facilities.

By combining servers, virtualization and management into a single product, Scale Computing’s HC3 greatly simplifies maintenance and management for Benchmark, providing significant savings in staff costs and time spent on the system. The scalability of the technology makes it easy for the IT team to add nodes in different locations around the company’s operations with minimum local configuration and customization required.

“We have standardized on Scale Computing at our remote sites because those clusters are easy to manage and deploy,” said Stacy Black, Director of Infrastructure & Operations at Benchmark Electronics, Inc. “We have reduced our spend and saved a great deal of time not having to train staff on legacy virtualization, as well as not having to spend time managing multiple vendors.”

INDIANAPOLIS – March 17, 2021 – Scale Computing, a market leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions, today announced continued momentum within the transportation industry, thanks to Scale Computing’s HC3, which allows transportation organizations — whether they are over-the-road, rail, marine, or air — to optimize operations with self-healing, automated infrastructure for all applications.

“The transportation industry has a lot of moving parts, from new CO2 emission rules to a fast-growing number of cyber-attacks. Transportation vehicles, vessels, and crew are vulnerable and require onboard computer infrastructure technology that is simple, secure, and resilient,” said Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder of Scale Computing. “Our HC3 Edge Computing solutions optimize transportation operations with self-healing, automated infrastructure, ensuring application availability, simplified management and secure applications on all fleets, whether it is air, marine, over-the-road, or rail transportation.”

With the proper platform in place, transportation entities, regardless of sector, can deliver improved fleet management, monitoring, contactless-delivery technology, increased productivity, and lower TCO, while keeping critical data and crew safe. Scale Computing HC3 is highly available, keeping critical applications and data always on and available, and provides the simplicity and scalability needed to meet the IT infrastructure demands of transportation.

Boughey Distribution Ltd was searching for the right solution to replace aging hardware and execute an infrastructure refresh. By selecting HC3, Boughey Distribution was able to decrease the time spent recovering from a hardware failure running a critical workload from 1-8 hours to less than 10 minutes, an 83-percent to 97-percent reduction in recovery time.

“Having a single point of contact is huge as most issues can and have been resolved with a 10 minute phone call. With my last providers I had to play phone tennis where one would pass me to the other. Cost is another bonus because the combined total was cheaper than the upgrade to another VMware and server provider,” said Paul Brough, Network Administrator, Boughey Distribution Ltd.

Challenger Motor Freight, Inc. was searching for the right solution to replace aging hardware and execute an infrastructure refresh to support growth and new business initiatives. By selecting HC3, Challenger was able to decrease the time spent recovering from a hardware failure running a critical workload from 1-8 hours to less than 10 minutes, an 83-percent to 97-percent reduction in recovery time.

“We are now able to just use the system. We can deploy VMs in seconds, which makes test/dev so much easier. High availability and replication come out of the box. We do not have to worry about patches for switch, san, server, and hypervisor. When needed, Scale Computing support is the best support I have received from any vendor ever in my 25 years of experience,” noted Scott Benninger, IT Manager, Challenger Motor Freight, Inc.

As the mass transit agency that provides bus transportation within State College, Pennsylvania, and the surrounding areas, as well as Pennsylvania State University, Centre Area Transportation Authority (CATA) requires highly-available IT infrastructure to deliver uninterrupted service to its customers. By implementing HC3, CATA was able to improve its disaster recovery, reduced its IT complexity with a single vendor to support its infrastructure, and reduced IT operating costs.

Donny Lynch, IT specialist at Centre Area Transportation Authority, states, “Scale Computing HC3 handles our server needs across the organization for our ERP systems, SQL servers, and remote access. Their technology has been critical in consolidating older legacy server hardware and server OS into one easy-to-manage-and-monitor system.”

Empire Airlines in Hayden, Idaho, flies 50 aircraft for FedEx, as well as passenger and cargo aircraft for Hawaiian Airlines. In addition to its air carriers, Empire Airlines has a maintenance repair overhaul facility in Idaho.

According to Melanie Ellingson, director of IT at Empire Airlines, the company was looking to upgrade its legacy IT infrastructure with a virtualization solution. Ease of use was a priority for Ellingson, who said she wanted a simple solution that did not require additional training or specialized personnel to maintain the IT infrastructure. After researching competitors, Ellingson selected Scale Computing, stating, “With Scale Computing, you plug it in, turn it on, and you’re running. That’s all there is to it.”

Scale Computing is currently offering transportation organizations a free trial for Scale Computing HC3 Edge. Learn more.