Scale Computing Named 2024 DCD>Awards Edge Data Center Project of the Year Winner
INDIANAPOLIS – December 19, 2024 – Scale Computing, the market leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions, today announced that Data Center Dynamics (DCD) has honored its deployment with Royal Farms—an established convenience store and fuel chain with more than 300 U.S. locations—with the 2024 Edge Data Center Project of the Year award.
The DCD>Awards recognize exceptional innovation, leadership, and results within the data center industry. This award category recognizes projects that can demonstrate a unique and strategic approach as to how a successful Edge deployment is designed, set up and operated, and show how this creates new and exciting opportunities for delivering on IT and business objectives. This year’s distinction spotlights the successful partnership between Scale Computing and Royal Farms, showcasing how a forward-looking edge computing strategy can transform operational efficiency, reduce complexity, and deliver a superior customer experience.
Royal Farms sought a modern, resilient, and cost-effective edge infrastructure solution to streamline IT operations across its distributed locations. By deploying the Scale Computing Platform (SC//Platform) at the store level, the company dramatically simplified its infrastructure, shortening installation times by 90% and decreasing management overhead and licensing costs by 75%. The result was a self-healing, automated environment that ensures reliable performance and high availability for critical applications, ultimately improving daily operations and enabling continuous innovation at the edge.
“We’re honored that Data Center Dynamics has recognized our work with the 2024 Edge Data Center Project of the Year award,” said Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder, Scale Computing. “This award highlights how advanced edge computing solutions can redefine distributed IT environments, enabling organizations to improve performance, reduce complexity, and ultimately deliver a better experience to their customers.”
By continuing to deliver agile, high-performance solutions that simplify deployment and maintenance across distributed environments, Scale Computing helps organizations like Royal Farms gain unprecedented control over their IT environments. As enterprises increasingly embrace the edge to meet customer demands and drive competitive advantages, Scale Computing remains committed to delivering solutions that enable seamless, reliable, and cost-effective operations no matter where data and applications reside.
The DCD>Awards recognizes the most outstanding projects, people and teams across 17 categories. An independent panel of judges reviewed hundreds of entries submitted. Winners were announced December 11th at the 18th annual awards ceremony at Grosvenor House in London, and broadcast live worldwide.
To learn more about Scale Computing’s edge computing solutions and its award-winning work with Royal Farms, watch the video case study and explore additional insights at: https://www.scalecomputing.com/resources/why-royal-farms-chose-scale-computing.
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.
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