INDIANAPOLIS – February 24, 2021 – Scale Computing, a market leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions, today announced its HE150 won silver in TechTarget’s Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com’s annual Products of the Year Awards for 2020 in the Hyperconverged & Composable Infrastructures category. Scale Computing’s HE150 appliance is the industry’s smallest and most powerful edge computing appliance, and is part of the “best enterprise storage systems and products.”

In its announcement, SearchStorage noted that: “Scale Computing’s HE150 appliance earned silver for being, among other things, one of the first fully functional hyperconverged systems to use Intel’s small form factor, four-by-four inch Next Unit of Computing (NUC) mini-computer. About the size of an Apple TV set-top box, the HE150 doesn’t skimp on features even at such an edge-friendly size. Additional features include remote and fleet management capabilities, as well as machine learning to detect infrastructure issues.”

“We’re thrilled to be recognized in the Hyperconverged & Composable Infrastructures category. It’s a testament not only to the functionality HE150 brings to market, but to the innovation focus of our team,” said Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder of Scale Computing. “The Scale Computing HE150 appliance consolidates storage, compute, and virtualization into a single unit that can literally be held in the palm of your hand. By eliminating the need for multiple dedicated servers, customers can eliminate complexity from their infrastructure, mitigate issues faster and more efficiently, and reduce their cost structure.”

The HE150 appliance combines Scale Computing’s self-healing platform for autonomously running applications at the edge with a small, all-flash NVMe storage-based compute appliance that delivers all of the simplicity, efficiency, and enterprise-ready virtualization associated with Scale Computing’s HC3 platform.

This win comes on the heels of other recent industry recognition, including:

• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (December 2020), which recognized Scale Computing for the fourth consecutive year.
• TrustRadius Customer Satisfaction Awards, which awarded Scale Computing first place for 2021 Best Feature Set, Best Usability, and Best Customer Support.
• GigaOm Radar Report for Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Small-to-Medium Enterprises and Edge that named Scale Computing a “Leader” and “Outperformer.”
• 2020 CRN® Product of the Year, which selected Scale Computing HE150 as the Internet of Things category winner.
• CRN’s 2020 Tech Innovator Award that awarded HE150 first place for Edge Infrastructure.
• Cloud Computing Outlook, which recognized Scale Computing as a Top Edge Computing Solution Provider.

The 2020 Storage Products of the Year awards were judged by the Storage magazine and SearchStorage editorial staff, in conjunction with industry experts, analysts, and consultants. Judges selected the winners according to the following criteria: innovation, performance, ease of integration into existing environments, ease of use and manageability, functionality, and value. This is the 19th annual Storage magazine and SearchStorage Products of the Year awards. Winners were announced in the February 2021 issue of Storage magazine and online at SearchStorage.

INDIANAPOLIS – February 2, 2021 — Scale Computing, a market leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions, is introducing a video surveillance and security solution optimized to consolidate video storage, video management and analytics workloads. Scale Computing HC3 is an IT infrastructure platform with the performance, ease of use and resilience required to support surveillance, security and IoT requirements.

Building server and storage infrastructure to support critical video surveillance needs is easy with Scale Computing HC3 Software and Hyperconverged Infrastructure Appliances. HC3 automatically handles hardware failures, making the system easy to manage from day one and easy to “scale out” to expand resources when they are needed without adding additional “islands” to manage in the process. This is a great improvement from legacy video where systems adding additional legacy server based VMS / NVR monolithic systems was expensive and time consuming.

Recent protests in Minneapolis impacted three Jerry’s Foods locations and like many businesses in the region, Jerry’s Foods experienced property damage and stolen goods. As the situation unfolded, the IT team at Jerry’s Foods wanted access to each store’s video surveillance system, but needed to move quickly. Rapid, trouble-free implementation and deployment allowed the local IT team to move the small and lightweight Scale Computing HE150 servers from one location to another in less than an hour.

“Of our affected stores, one video surveillance system was running on Scale Computing and Digital Watchdog, the other was running on Digital Watchdog without Scale Computing,” Miller said. “We were impressed when we were able to quickly and easily move servers from one location to another, but our operations team was thrilled that we were up and running and watching video from a safe location within an hour. We’re constantly blown away by the simplicity and functionality of Scale Computing HC3, especially in a moment of uncertainty. It’s safe to say, I’m sleeping better at night.”

HC3 is delivered as a family of modular building block appliances with the intelligent infrastructure software included and pre-loaded. Additional HC3 nodes can be added to expand the overall HC3 cluster pool of storage and/or compute resources as needed without adding anything new to manage, so IT and security leaders can buy the resources as needed. HC3 nodes are available with a variety of resources and capabilities from high capacity magnetic storage, low latency NVMe and flash storage, a wide range of processor and RAM configurations as well as GPU.

One of the UK’s premier suppliers of plastic packaging, M&H deployed hyperconverged infrastructure and edge computing on its video surveillance system to keep premises secure and optimise scalability. “We are super satisfied with how our Blue Iris Video Management Software runs on Scale Computing’s HC3 solution. It is secure, efficient, and fast enough to handle all of our video surveillance and we have not had any issues with it. It has truly ticked all the boxes, because of this we now have the majority of our IT equipment running on Scale Computing,” said Rob Mellor, Director of IT at M&H Plastics.

VMS Software Solutions

• VMS software for Windows or Linux can be installed inside a HC3 virtual machine.
• Popular VMS software tested on HC3 includes MIlestone XProtect VMS, Genetec Security Center / Omnicast, Digital Watchdog DW Spectrum, Blue Iris, Pelco VideoXPert and many others.
• Scale Computing HC3 is Milestone Verified and listed in the Milestone Marketplace

“HC3 software is intelligent infrastructure software that runs applications reliably. As a video surveillance and security solution we offer a flexible, reliable, and secure IT platform capable of being deployed quickly, managed both locally and remotely, and has self-healing technology that reduces the overall amount of time spent on IT support and maintenance,” said Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder, Scale Computing.

The Scale Computing Video Surveillance and Security solution is available today. For more information please visit https://www.scalecomputing.com/video-and-surveillance-infrastructure-solutions

INDIANAPOLIS – January 26, 2021 – Scale Computing, a market leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions, today announced that it has been selected as a finalist in TechTarget’s Storage Magazine and SearchStorage.com’s annual Products of the Year Awards for 2020. TechTarget named Scale Computing’s HE150, the industry’s smallest and most powerful edge computing appliance. as a finalist in the Hyper-converged & Composable Infrastructures category.

In its announcement, SearchStorage noted that: “Scale Computing’s HE150 appliance brings the HCI paradigm to incredibly low-end power-efficient devices, enabling the Scale Computing hyperconvergence offering to run on devices as small as Intel’s four-by-four inch Next Unit of Computing mini-computer. Hyperconvergence is a natural model for edge computing, and the efficiency of Scale Computing’s HE150 enables IT architects to deploy the HCI model into spaces where the vendor’s competitors simply can’t go for IoT and remote manufacturing or logistics locations.”

“Technology is everywhere, and it’s increasingly important that edge computing be able to support an application-driven world,” said Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder of Scale Computing. “Because limited IT resources are available at the edge, supporting those apps requires a tricky combination of enterprise-grade application reliability, autonomous management, and self-healing. The award-winning Scale Computing HE150 delivers on all fronts.”

The HE150 appliance combines Scale Computing’s self-healing platform for autonomously running applications at the edge with a small, all-flash NVMe storage-based compute appliance that delivers all of the simplicity, efficiency, and enterprise-ready virtualization associated with Scale Computing’s HC3 platform.

This announcement comes on the heels of other recent industry recognition, including:

• Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure (December 2020). Scale Computing was recognized for the fourth consecutive year.

• 2020 CRN® Product of the Year. Scale Computing HE150 was named a winner in the Internet of Things category.

• CRN’s 2020 Tech Innovator Award. HE150 won for Edge Infrastructure.

• Cloud Computing Outlook Top Edge Computing Solution Provider of 2020.

• TrustRadius Customer Satisfaction Awards. Scale Computing took first place for 2021 Best Feature Set, Best Usability, and Best Customer Support.

• GigaOm Radar Report for Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Small-to-Medium Enterprises and Edge: Scale Computing was named a “Leader” and “Outperformer.”

The Storage Magazine 2020 Products of the Year Awards recognizes winners in five categories: Backup and DR Hardware/Software/Services, Cloud Storage, Disk and Disk Subsystems, Hyper-converged and Composable Infrastructures, and Storage System and Application Software. All enterprise storage products were judged based on technological innovation, performance, ease of integration, ease of use and manageability, functionality and value. Winners will be announced in February on SearchStorage.com and will also be published in the February issue of Storage Magazine.

INDIANAPOLIS – January 20, 2021 – Scale Computing, a market leader in edge computing, virtualization and hyperconverged solutions, today announced that GigaOm has named the company both a “leader” and “outperformer” in its most recent report, “GigaOm Radar for Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Small-to-Medium Enterprises and Edge.” The report takes a comprehensive view of how well Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions serve small to medium enterprises (SME), edge, and Remote office/branch office (ROBO) market segments. The report can be downloaded here.

The Radar report recognizes that Scale Computing offers a complete end-to-end solution based on its own virtualization stack, which is designed for small, medium, and large distributed enterprises with a particular focus on edge use cases. Scale Computing offers a self-healing platform for autonomously running applications at the edge, with a small, all-flash, NVMe storage-based compute appliance that delivers all of the simplicity, efficiency, and enterprise-ready virtualization associated with Scale Computing’s HC3 platform. Built specifically for sites that need highly available infrastructure, the HE150 can be deployed almost anywhere, without requiring a rack or server closet. While taking up only the space needed to stack three smartphones, it provides a fully functional, integrated platform for running applications that includes high availability clustering, rolling upgrades, and integrated data protection.

“The edge requires a combination of enterprise-grade application reliability, autonomous management, and self healing due to the limited IT resources available at the edge, and a form factor that makes sense for the environment. This is a tricky combination, but Scale Computing has delivered,” said Enrico Signoretti, Research Analyst, GigaOm.

“We are honored to be named both a “Leader” and an “Outperformer” in the first GigaOm Radar for Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Small-to-Medium Enterprises and Edge. As technology pushes its way into every part of business, the need for edge computing to support an application-driven world is expanding. The Scale Computing platform runs applications at maximum uptime where, due to a combination of location and lack of IT resources, it was previously not feasible. Its use cases include retail, grocery, educational facilities, local government offices, medical offices, ocean going vessels, and manufacturing shop floors – the possibilities are endless,” said Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder, Scale Computing.

This news follows exciting award wins and industry recognition for the company, including:

• TechTarget’s Storage Magazine & SearchStorage.com selected Scale Computing as a finalist for its annual Products of the Year Awards for 2020 for the HE150 in Hyper-converged & Composable Infrastructure.
• TrustRadius recognized Scale Computing with a 2021 Best Feature Set Award, a 2021 Best of Customer Support Award, and a 2021 Best Usability Award. This trifecta of awards highlights the few companies with outstanding feature sets that have gone above and beyond to delight their users. The company ranked first in all three categories.
• The HE150, powered by Scale Computing’s HC3 Edge software platform, is a winner of the CRN 2020 Product of the Year Awards in the Internet of Things category.
• Gartner Inc. included Scale Computing in the December 2020 Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software. Scale Computing has been recognized in all editions of this Magic Quadrant since Gartner introduced it. Scale Computing has also been highly rated and reviewed by customers on Gartner Peer Insights.
• Listed in Inc’s 1000 Largest and Most Inspiring Private Companies.
• Winner in both the Edge Computing category, newly added this year, and the Converged/ HyperConverged Infrastructure category, of the 2020 CRN Annual Report Card (ARC) Awards. This is the second consecutive year Scale Computing has been recognized as a CRN ARC Award winner.

Scale Computing believes that it is the top choice over its competitors for many customers due to the simplicity, efficiency and innovation of Scale Computing HC3. Specifically:

• Simplicity – Scale Computing customers rave about how simple it is to implement and deploy HC3. The simplicity of the self-healing platform, driven by automation and machine intelligence, allows Scale Computing customers to focus on other strategic projects rather than infrastructure maintenance.
• Efficiency – 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.
• Innovation – Using patented HyperCore™ technology, the HC3 self-healing platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and corrects problems in the infrastructure in real-time, enabling applications to achieve maximum uptime even when local IT resources and staff are scarce. This innovation makes HC3 simple for IT teams to manage and administer.
• Value – HC3 makes IT infrastructure reliable, manageable and affordable by giving organizations more system uptime while requiring significantly less maintenance and administration than legacy alternatives.

The GigaOm Radar Report for Hyperconverged Infrastructure: Small-to-Medium Enterprises and Edge can be downloaded here.

Indianapolis – January 6, 2020 – Scale Computing, a market leader in edge computing, virtualization and hyperconverged solutions, announced today that TrustRadius has recognized the company with a 2021 Best Feature Set Award, a 2021 Best of Customer Support Award, and a 2021 Best Usability Award. This trifecta of awards highlights the few companies with outstanding feature sets that have gone above and beyond to delight their users. The company ranked first in all three categories.

To win the Best Customer Support Award, each nominated organization had to receive 10 TrustRadius reviews in the past year that featured specific mention of their product’s customer support. Winners also had to rank in the top three positions of their category in terms of what percentage of positive responses they earned this year. The feature award looks specifically at three feature sets, is limited to three winners per award, and winners are ranked 1-3. Additional vetting via textual review analysis was also performed by the TrustRadius research team. The same process was followed with the Best Feature Set Award and the Best Usability Award.

“We are excited to announce our first-ever “Best of” Award winners,” said TrustRadius CEO Vinay Bhagat. “Let’s face it: Not all products are created equal, and neither are all technology buyers. That’s why at TrustRadius we’re always looking for new ways to help buyers make great decisions. By highlighting products that have first-class feature sets, we can help more buyers navigate to products that will meet their unique needs.”

“When you win awards based on customer feedback it is the most gratifying because customer success is Scale Computing’s top priority. We engineer our IT infrastructure platform to be simple to manage and maintain while leveraging our patented self-healing technology to maintain maximum uptime for applications. This innovation is appreciated by customers at organizations of all sizes, in every vertical, and we are proud our customers have recognized us in TrustRadius,” said Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder, Scale Computing.

This news follows exciting recent award wins for the company including:

• Scale Computing is well positioned in the Gartner Magic Quadrant/Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software
• The HE150, powered by Scale Computing’s HC3 Edge software platform, is a winner in the CRN 2020 Product of the Year Awards in the Internet of Things category
• Cloud Computing Outlook has recognized Scale Computing as a Top Edge Computing Solution Provider
• Scale Computing is listed in Inc’s 1000 Largest and Most Inspiring Private Companies
• Winner in both the Edge Computing category, newly added this year, and the Converged/ HyperConverged Infrastructure category, of the 2020 CRN Annual Report Card (ARC) Awards. This is the second consecutive year Scale Computing has been recognized as a CRN ARC Award winner.

Scale Computing believes that it is the top choice over its competitors for many customers due to the simplicity, efficiency and innovation of Scale Computing HC3. Specifically:

• Simplicity – Scale Computing customers rave about how simple it is to implement and deploy HC3. The simplicity of the self-healing platform, driven by automation and machine intelligence, allows Scale Computing customers to focus on other strategic projects rather than infrastructure maintenance.
• Efficiency – 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.
• Innovation – Using patented HyperCore™ technology, the HC3 self-healing platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and corrects problems in the infrastructure in real-time, enabling applications to achieve maximum uptime even when local IT resources and staff are scarce. This innovation makes HC3 simple for IT teams to manage and administer.