Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market
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Scale Computing, the market leader in hyperconverged storage, server and virtualization solutions for midsized companies, today announced an SSD-enabled entry to its HC1000 line of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions for less than $25,000, designed to meet the critical needs in the SMB market for simplicity, scalability and affordability.
The HC1150 combines virtualization with servers and high performance flash storage to provide a complete, highly available datacenter infrastructure solution at the lowest price possible. Offering the full line of features found in the HC2000 and HC4000 family clusters, the entry level HC1150 provides the most efficient use of system resources – particularly RAM – to manage storage and compute resources, allowing more resources for use in running additional virtual machines. The sub-$25,000 price point also includes a year of an industry-leading premium support at no additional cost.
“The SMB and midmarket communities are those that Scale Computing has long championed as worthy of enterprise-class features and functionality. The challenge is that those communities also require that the solution be affordable and be easy to use as well as manage,” said George Crump, President and Founder of Storage Switzerland. “Scale Computing has raised the performance bar to its offerings with the addition of SSDs to its entry-level hyperconverged appliances but it did so without stripping out functionality. Scale Computing is ready to be a leader in this space by enhancing their product family while keeping costs within reach.”
Scale Computing’s HC3 platform brings storage, servers, virtualization, and high availability together in a single, comprehensive system. With no virtualization software to license and no external storage to buy, HC3 solutions lower out-of-pocket costs and radically simplify the infrastructure needed to keep applications optimized and running. The integration of flash-enabled automated storage tiering into
Scale’s converged HC3 system adds hybrid storage including SSD and spinning disk with HyperCore Enhanced Automated Tiering (HEAT). Scale’s HEAT technology uses a combination of built-in intelligence, data access patterns, and workload priority to automatically optimize data across disparate storage tiers within the cluster.The HC1150 was not the only new addition to the HC1000 family. The new HC1100 which replaces the previous HC1000 model, provides a big increase in compute and performance. Improvements include an increase in RAM per node from 32GB to 64GB; an increase in base CPU per node from 4 cores to 6 cores; and a change from SATA to 7200 RPM, higher capacity NL-SAS drives. With the introduction of the HC1100 comes the first use of Broadwell Intel CPUs into the HC1000 family. All of the improvements in the HC1100 over the HC1000 model come with no increase in cost over the HC1000. Additionally, the HC1150 scales with all other members of the HC3 family for the ultimate in flexibility and to accommodate future growth.
“While some vendors are beginning to look to the SMB marketplace as a way to supplement languishing enterprise sales, we have long been entrenched with the small businesses, school districts and municipalities to provide them with user-friendly technology and reasonable IT infrastructure costs to ensure that they can accomplish as much as larger organizations,” said Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder of Scale Computing. “We have helped more than 1,500 customers with fully featured hyperconverged solutions that are as easy as plugging in a piece of machinery and managing a single server. Our latest HC1150 further fulfills that promise by combining virtualization with high-performance flash to provide the most complete, highly available HCI solution at the industry-best price.”
Scale Computing’s HC1150, as with its entire line of hyperconverged solutions, is currently available through the company’s channel with end user pricing starting at $24,500. For additional information or to purchase, interested parties can contact Scale Computing representatives at https://www.scalecomputing.com/scale-computing-pricing-and-quotes.
Sorry for the press release, but wanted to get this info out there. This is the system that @Aconboy was talking about in a thread last week.
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What kind of SSDs are you guys using?
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@Dashrender mlc in the new HC1150s, higher endurance SLC in the HC2150/HC4150
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@craig.theriac said in Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market:
@Dashrender mlc in the new HC1150s, higher endurance SLC in the HC2150/HC4150
Do you have a custom firmware installed on them? or are these generic off the shelf drives?
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@Dashrender standard off the shelf drives that we pool together with our software to manage as a tier to protect against failures etc
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There have been discussions here before about what drives people can/should trust to use in servers that aren't OEM sold for such use.
Can you tell us what drives and what model numbers you are using?
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@Dashrender the HC1150 is shipping with Samsung's SM863 today. As with all of the components we ship in our appliances, we are constantly looking for alternatives that can offer similar performance/endurance/price to protect customers (and our company) against supply chain issues. So a blanket "subject to change" statement is probably warranted.
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One of the little things that irritates me in advertising is "Sub-$$$$ price!" we all know it's sub-price minus one dollar lol
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@MattSpeller said in Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market:
One of the little things that irritates me in advertising is "Sub-$$$$ price!" we all know it's sub-price minus one dollar lol
I this case, It's -$500.
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@MattSpeller said in Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market:
One of the little things that irritates me in advertising is "Sub-$$$$ price!" we all know it's sub-price minus one dollar lol
The way of the world handsome. The way of the world.
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What SMB has $25,000 to drop on ONE piece of kit?
That's a hell of a "Shiny-new-device Syndrome" infection. -
Perhaps, I should be thinking of media and graphics businesses more than roller shutter and gardening tool businesses.
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@nadnerB said in Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market:
Perhaps, I should be thinking of media and graphics businesses more than roller shutter and gardening tool businesses.
You should be thinking gardening tool business.
The main reason to use SSDs is for database IOPS. SMBs seem to have some kind of aversion to outsourcing stuff to other providers so they hobble along on 7200RPM SATA drives because "Oh I don't need that". So when the WORX Aerocart takes off and people are buying them off your site left and right, you can't keep up because the database is getting choked by requests.
If you hosted your shit with us, you would be getting nothing but SSDs. But since SMBs love to keep shit inhouse, this is a great option and dirt cheap for what it is. Off the shelf, non-custom SSDs makes for a fast deployment and future proofing. So when those Samsung 950Pro's come down in price and in SAS interfaces, you got yourself a monster database system with just the minimum of swapping the disks around.
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@PSX_Defector said in Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market:
@nadnerB said in Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market:
Perhaps, I should be thinking of media and graphics businesses more than roller shutter and gardening tool businesses.
You should be thinking gardening tool business.
The main reason to use SSDs is for database IOPS. SMBs seem to have some kind of aversion to outsourcing stuff to other providers so they hobble along on 7200RPM SATA drives because "Oh I don't need that". So when the WORX Aerocart takes off and people are buying them off your site left and right, you can't keep up because the database is getting choked by requests.
If you hosted your shit with us, you would be getting nothing but SSDs. But since SMBs love to keep shit inhouse, this is a great option and dirt cheap for what it is. Off the shelf, non-custom SSDs makes for a fast deployment and future proofing. So when those Samsung 950Pro's come down in price and in SAS interfaces, you got yourself a monster database system with just the minimum of swapping the disks around.
Do you really need SAS interface? Does it provide that much more xyz over the SATA interface?
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@nadnerB said in Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market:
What SMB has $25,000 to drop on ONE piece of kit?
That's a hell of a "Shiny-new-device Syndrome" infection.It's one whole kit... not just pieces.
@scale can correct me, but the $25k pricetag includes 3 x Scale nodes, right? -
@dafyre said in Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market:
@nadnerB said in Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market:
What SMB has $25,000 to drop on ONE piece of kit?
That's a hell of a "Shiny-new-device Syndrome" infection.It's one whole kit... not just pieces.
@scale can correct me, but the $25k pricetag includes 3 x Scale nodes, right?It's a drop in computer side of the HA setup. Of course you need power/cooling, etc.. but it's a cheap start for what it is.
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@nadnerB said in Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market:
What SMB has $25,000 to drop on ONE piece of kit?
That's a hell of a "Shiny-new-device Syndrome" infection.Believe it or not... tons of the SMB customers that I deal with not only have $25K to drop, but often are happy to blow $50K extra on improperly specced solutions! So someone who, for example, should only be spending around $25K might blow $75K because they didn't take time to think through their needs and/or went to a vendor sales person for design engineering and they over sell them by that much. I find it just as common that SMBs have so much money burning holes in their pockets that they will through $25K away without thinking as those that struggle to come up with $25K. And honestly, if you can't spend $25K without too much thought, you probably should not have any internal IT person since having IT staff with nothing to manage is pretty silly.
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@PSX_Defector said in Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market:
@nadnerB said in Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market:
Perhaps, I should be thinking of media and graphics businesses more than roller shutter and gardening tool businesses.
You should be thinking gardening tool business.
The main reason to use SSDs is for database IOPS. SMBs seem to have some kind of aversion to outsourcing stuff to other providers so they hobble along on 7200RPM SATA drives because "Oh I don't need that". So when the WORX Aerocart takes off and people are buying them off your site left and right, you can't keep up because the database is getting choked by requests.
If you hosted your shit with us, you would be getting nothing but SSDs. But since SMBs love to keep shit inhouse, this is a great option and dirt cheap for what it is. Off the shelf, non-custom SSDs makes for a fast deployment and future proofing. So when those Samsung 950Pro's come down in price and in SAS interfaces, you got yourself a monster database system with just the minimum of swapping the disks around.
You can mix with SATA units, too. So if you are big enough to need, say, four nodes you could do two SSD and two SATA and have databases on the SSD and other things, like DCs and web servers and file servers on SATA.
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@dafyre said in Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market:
@nadnerB said in Scale Computing Brings First Fully Featured Sub-$25,000 Flash Solution to SMB Market:
What SMB has $25,000 to drop on ONE piece of kit?
That's a hell of a "Shiny-new-device Syndrome" infection.It's one whole kit... not just pieces.
@scale can correct me, but the $25k pricetag includes 3 x Scale nodes, right?That's correct... that's the price tage of an ENTIRE cluster. It's basically the same price as the previous entry level cluster but this has the latest updates. So you are getting more power (faster CPUs, faster storage) for the same price as before. The old one didn't offer SSDs. So less than $25K for a very powerful, easy to use, HA cluster.
