Company Gifting Zombie Survival Kits to End Users in North America and Europe, Middle East, and Africa through November 4th

INDIANAPOLIS – October 3, 2023 — Scale Computing, a market leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions, today announced its new campaign targeting outdated, ‘zombie-like’ infrastructure and calling on organizations to learn more about Scale Computing Platform’s (SC//Platform) future-ready solutions. Between now and November 4, 2023, end users in North America and Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) can register for the company’s free Zombie Apocalypse Essentials Kit, containing a water bottle, lantern, and powerbank.

“IT managers are increasingly dealing with unreliable, inflexible, and inefficient systems. Instead of being haunted by outdated and traditional infrastructure, we invite users to learn more about Scale Computing and our Scale Computing Platform. SC//Platform brings together simplicity and scalability, replacing existing outdated infrastructure and providing high availability for running workloads in a single, easy-to-manage platform, while leveraging our patented self-healing technology to maintain maximum uptime for all applications,” said Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder of Scale Computing.

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, dedicated to raising awareness about the importance of digital security and protecting personal data. As cyberattacks become more sophisticated, maintaining modern infrastructure with a powerful cybersecurity stance is key to keeping critical business applications and data secured. Scale Computing’s campaign aims to help businesses fortify their defenses against the three blood-thirsty ‘zombies’ that commonly haunt outdated, traditional three-tier infrastructure:

• Dreadful Downtime — an unreliable network that causes unexpected and expensive downtime for an organization
• Mangled Management — disparate technology systems, managed across multiple platforms, that make upgrades, patching, and overall management unnecessarily time- consuming
• Creeping Complexity — old and outdated systems across multiple locations that make scaling overly complicated

SC//Platform provides infrastructure that is simple, secure, scalable, and reliable. With SC//Fleet Manager, the industry’s first cloud-hosted monitoring and management tool built for hyperconverged edge computing infrastructure at scale, customers can quickly identify areas of concern using a single pane of glass, scaling from 1 to over 50,000 clusters. Zero-touch provisioning and Secure Link features allow administrators to centrally and securely monitor and manage hundreds or thousands of distributed edge infrastructure deployments, with few or no on-site IT personnel.

To learn more about how you can unleash the power of SC//Platform to make your escape from outdated zombie infrastructure and claim your Zombie Apocalypse Essentials Kit.

User Reviews Rank Scale Computing High Performer in Hyperconverged Infrastructure and Leader in Server Virtualization

INDIANAPOLIS – September 12, 2023 — Scale Computing, a market leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions, today announced it has been awarded 19 badges for its customer satisfaction and market reputation in the G2 Fall 2023 Report, including a Leader badge in the Server Virtualization and a High Performer badge in the Hyperconverged Infrastructure categories. G2 is the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace, with more than 80 million people relying on the platform’s authentic peer reviews to make software decisions.

Within G2’s Hyperconverged Infrastructure and Server Virtualization categories, Scale Computing Platform earned multiple additional badges, including High Performer, Highest User Adoption, Most Implementable, Best Relationship, Best Results, Best Usability, Easiest to Use, and Fastest Implementation.

“SC//Platform is purposefully engineered to be simple to use and manage, eliminating complexity, lowering costs, and significantly reducing management time for our customers,” said Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder of Scale Computing. “We’re exceptionally proud to receive these 19 badges based on user reviews, because it means we’re doing what we set out to do — make customer success a top priority. Being recognized by G2 means real, verified users chose Scale Computing over similar products, and that is an honor we’re proud to have achieved.”

Scale Computing Platform brings together simplicity and scalability, replacing the existing infrastructure and providing high availability for running workloads in a single, easy-to-manage platform, while leveraging patented self-healing technology to maintain maximum uptime for all applications. The zero-touch provisioning feature reduces deployment time by 90 percent or more, enabling administrators to centrally configure clusters of edge computing infrastructure prior to nodes arriving on-premises with cloud-like simplicity.

“Rankings on G2 reports are based on data provided to us by real software buyers,” said Sara Rossio, Chief Product Officer at G2. “Potential buyers know they can trust these insights when researching and selecting software because they’re rooted in vetted, verified, and authentic reviews.”

To learn more about what real users have to say about Scale Computing, visit G2’s SC//Platform review page. View the entire list of badges awarded in G2’s Fall 2023 Report on Scale Computing’s website.

Leadership and Innovation Take Center Stage

SPICEWORLD, AUSTIN – September 5, 2023 — Scale Computing, a market leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions, today announced that CEO and cofounder, Jeff Ready, and Director of Systems Engineers, Mike O’Neil, will be presenting at the 2023 SpiceWorld IT Conference in Austin, Texas, September 5th – 7th. The three-day event boasts hundreds of tech brands and thousands of attendees, providing participants a unique opportunity to gain insights, build connections, and explore the latest innovations in the field.

“SpiceWorld 2023 is an incredible platform for knowledge-sharing and networking,” said Ready. “I am thrilled to once again be part of the event and to have the opportunity to share the story behind Scale Computing and its evolution as we enter the age of the edge computing revolution. We’ve built award-winning solutions that eliminate the need for VMware, hypervisor, storage management, server management, container management, fleet management, and disaster recovery. Our journey is a testament to the power of innovation and dedication. We were just ranked #1 in multicloud software platforms and #1 in HCI in CRN’s latest annual report card—beating out brands like VMware and HPE—and we’re going to continue to push the envelope. This year’s SpiceWorld event has a stellar lineup of some of the top industry professionals, including many of our esteemed channel partners, and we can’t wait to show them what we’ve got on the horizon.”

Ready will present his talk, “Moving Beyond VMware: Trust, Innovation, and the Edge – The Personal Story Behind Scale Computing” on Tuesday, September 5th at 7:00pm CDT at the Tech Talk Theatre in the Expo Hall. On Wednesday, O’Neil will share his presentation, “IT Infrastructure – Harness the Power of the Edge,” at 2:15pm CDT in the breakout space.

Conference attendees can meet with the Scale Computing team at booth 133 during the event. On Thursday, September 7th, the company will host the Annual Scale Computing Bat Boat Tour beginning at 6:30pm CDT. Tickets are limited and will be issued on a first-come, first-served basis at the booth, where attendees can also enter to win a Millennium Falcon Lego set.

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.

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.