Items Tagged: Scale+Computing
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YouTube Video: Smarter Storage as the Foundation of IT Agility - Scale Computing
Smarter Storage as the Foundation of IT Agility
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zQMSFxdSDw
- Premiered: 11/03/11 at OnDemand
- Speaker(s): Jeff Boles
- Sponsor(s): Scale Computing
Scale Computing Announces Launch of Mz Scale-Out Storage Nodes
New line of 10GbE storage nodes deliver increased performance for SMEs scale-out storage needs INDIANAPOLIS, Nov 09, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Scale Computing, a developer and manufacturer of intelligent, scale-out storage solutions tailored to the virtualization and archiving needs of the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME), today announced the availability of Mz models of scale-out storage nodes. Designed for increased performance, the Mz models of scale-out storage nodes feature 10GbE network connectivity.
- Premiered: 11/09/11
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: MarketWatch.com
Solving Storage Growth Challenges: Avoid Storage That Undercuts Consolidation
Join Jeff Boles, Senior Analyst with Taneja Group, and Jason Collier, CTO of Scale Computing, for a discussion on solving data growth challenges. In this presentation attendees will learn which storage architectures deliver on scalability and address both capacity and performance, and how to avoid those that undercut consolidation efforts due to an inability to scale simply and affordably.
During this online-only event, you will hear actual case studies where storage deployments lowered capital expenditures, and increased operational savings by using storage with simple management and simple scalability. Jason and Jeff will discuss these cases and the critical features that most small to medium-sized enterprises will need in a storage solution to accomplish consolidation, virtualization and availability goals.
- Premiered: 11/21/11 at OnDemand
- Location: Online: Please Register
- Speaker(s): Jeff Boles
- Sponsor(s): Scale Computing & Ziff Davis Enterprise
Scale-Out, DR and Data Protection for Small to Medium Virtualization Users
Together, Scale Computing and Veeam bring small to medium businesses a highly scalable and well protected virtual infrastructure storage solution.
- Premiered: 03/14/12
- Author: Jeff Byrne
Scale Computing HC3: Ending complexity with a hyper-converged, virtual infrastructure
Consolidation and enhanced management enabled by virtualization has revolutionized the practice of IT around the world over the past few years. By abstracting compute from the underlying hardware systems, and enabling oversubscription of physical systems by many virtual workloads, IT has been able to pack more systems into the data center than ever before. Moreover, for the first time in seemingly decades, IT has also taken a serious leap ahead in management as this same virtual infrastructure has wrapped the virtualized workload with better capabilities than ever before – tools like increased visibility, fast provisioning, enhanced cloning, and better data protection. The net result has been a serious increase in overall IT efficiency.
But not all is love and roses with the virtual infrastructure. In the face of serious benefits and consequent rampant adoption, virtualization continues to advance, and bring about more capability. All too often, an increase in capability has come at the cost of introducing considerable complexity. Virtualization now promises to do everything from serving up compute instances, to providing network infrastructure and network security, to enabling private clouds. Complex it can be.
For certain, much of this complexity exists between the individual physical infrastructures that IT must touch, and the simultaneous duplication that virtualization often brings into the picture. Virtual and physical networks must now be integrated, the relationship between virtual and physical servers must be tracked, and the administrator can barely answer with certainty whether key storage functions, like snapshots, should be managed on physical storage systems or in the virtual infrastructure.
With challenges surrounding increasing virtual complexity driving their vision of a better way to do IT, Scale Computing, long a provider of scale-out storage for the SMB, recently introduced a new line of technology – a product labeled HC3, or Hyper Convergence 3. HC3 is an integration of scale-out storage and scale-out virtualized compute within a single building block architecture that couples all of the elements of a virtual data center together inside one single system. The promised result is a system that is simple to use, and does away with the management and complexity overhead associated with virtualization in the data center. By virtualizing and intermingling all compute and storage inside a system that is already designed for scale-out, HC3 does away with the need to manage virtual networks, assemble complex clusters, provision and manage storage, and a bevy of day to day administrative tasks. Provisioning additional resources – any resource – becomes one-click-easy, and adding more physical resources as the business grows is reduced to a simple 2-minute exercise.
While this sounds compelling on the surface, Taneja Group recently turned our Technology Validation service – our hands-on lab service – to the task of evaluating whether Scale Computing’s HC3 could deliver on these promises in the real world. For this task, we put several HC3 clusters through the paces to see how they deployed, how they held up under use, and what specialized features they delivered that might go beyond the features found in traditional integrations of separate compute and storage systems.
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Scale Computing weighs in with converged storage, compute, VM cluster
SAN FRANCISCO -- Scale Computing today unveiled the HC3, a scale-out converged storage system combining compute, server virtualization and capacity in one box.
- Premiered: 08/27/12
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: TechTarget: SearchVirtualStorage.com
Scale Computing Launches HC3: Servers, Storage and Virtualization Seamlessly Integrated Into...
Scale Computing Launches HC3: Servers, Storage and Virtualization Seamlessly Integrated Into a Single Cluster for Applications Scale Computing, the leading provider of seamlessly integrated IT infrastructure for small to medium-sized organizations, today announced at VMworld 2012 the availability of HC3 - the easiest, most affordable virtualization system for midsize companies. With no virtualization software to license and no external storage to buy, HC3 lowers out of pocket costs by as much as 75 percent and radically simplifies the infrastructure needed to keep applications running. HC3 makes the deployment and management of a highly available and scalable infrastructure as easy to manage as a single server.
- Premiered: 08/30/12
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Scale Computing
HyperConvergence: Next Generation Virtualization
Over the past decade the data center has been transformed by the emergence and mainstream adoption of virtualization. Today, the data center is a far different creature than any architect would have imagined prior to the year 2000.
- Premiered: 10/18/12
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: InfoStor.com
Scale Computing Closes $12 Million in Funding; Reports Record Q3 Results
Scale Computing, the leading provider of seamlessly integrated IT infrastructure for small to medium-sized organizations, today announced it has closed $12 million in Series D funding, led by Heron Capital Venture Fund. Reservoir Venture Partners also contributed to this round as a new investor to Scale, joining existing investors who also contributed to Series D, including: Allos Ventures, CID Equity Capital, Spring Mill Venture Fund, Northgate Capital, Benchmark Capital Partners and Scale Venture Partners. Funding will be used to further accelerate the growth of HC3 (Scale’s new ‘datacenter-in-a-box’ product), continued product development and the launch of a new partner program later this year.
- Premiered: 10/23/12
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Scale Computing Press
iSCSI storage system innovation coming from SMB products
A lot of the innovation in iSCSI storage systems is coming from midrange iSCSI vendors. We list some key points to help you determine if iSCSI is a fit for your organization.
- Premiered: 12/11/12
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: TechTarget: SearchStorage.com
Converged Infrastructure, or 'Where Did All the Silos Go?'
Once upon a time as IT shops grew and matured, infrastructure subgroups would form to focus on complex domain-specific technologies. Servers, storage and networking all required deep subject matter expertise and a single-minded focus to keep up with the varying intricacies of implementation, operations and management.
- Premiered: 03/20/13
- Author: Mike Matchett
- Published: Virtualization Review
VM-aware, hyper-converged storage to make room for more hypervisors
So far the "VM" in VM-aware storage stands more for VMware than for virtual machine. Most vendors in this market develop their systems for VMware vSphere, the dominant hypervisor on the market.
- Premiered: 03/29/13
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: TechTarget: Search Virtual Storage
Goodbye LUN technology, you served us well
The era of LUNs and volumes, as we have known them for decades in the data storage industry, is quietly coming to an end. And if you ask me, it's for all the right reasons, even if storage administrators may feel threatened by the change.
- Premiered: 10/25/13
- Author: Arun Taneja
- Published: Tech Target: Search Storage
A Sneak Attack on Big Data Center Makers
Nutanix is among a small group of companies, including SimpliVity and Scale Computing, that in the past two years have lured smaller businesses away from traditional data centers with promises of big savings.
- Premiered: 12/05/13
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Bloomberg Businessweek
Nutanix completes phase two of dedupe plan for hyper-converged storage
Nutanix Inc. rolled out version 4.0 of its hyper-converged storage operating system today, adding data deduplication for data on hard disk drives and centralized management of multiple clusters and snapshots.
- Premiered: 04/15/14
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Tech Target: Search Virtual Storage
Hyperconvergence tackles storage and server strain
The simplicity of all-in-one data center offerings makes hyperconvergence popular with smaller businesses. After spending more than a decade selling IT shops on the benefits of separate server and storage environments, IT infrastructure vendors are starting to take a different tack, bundling servers and storage -- and in some cases, networking -- into Lego-like modules. The big plus is, they scale for capacity and performance, and they're managed as a single system.
- Premiered: 05/20/14
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Tech Target: Search Data Center
Hyper-converged infrastructure starts to offer greater choice
A hyper-converged infrastructure tightly integrates storage, compute, networking and server virtualization resources in the same box, and now products are starting to offer more points of differentiation. Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst at Taneja Group in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, surveyed the hyper-converged product landscape in this podcast interview. He explained the distinction between hyper-converged and converged systems, updated the list of products that meet his definition of hyper-convergence, discussed the latest choices users will find for hypervisors and hardware, and offered his predictions on the direction hyper-converged storage products could take.
- Premiered: 06/02/14
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Tech Target: Search Virtual Storage
Podcast: Hyper-converged infrastructure starts to offer greater choice
A hyper-converged infrastructure tightly integrates storage, compute, networking and server virtualization resources in the same box, and now products are starting to offer more points of differentiation.
Arun Taneja, founder and consulting analyst at Taneja Group in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, surveyed the hyper-converged product landscape in this podcast interview. He explained the distinction between hyper-converged and converged systems, updated the list of products that meet his definition of hyper-convergence, discussed the latest choices users will find for hypervisors and hardware, and offered his predictions on the direction hyper-converged storage products could take.
- Premiered: 06/02/14
- Location: OnDemand
- Speaker(s): Arun Taneja
- Sponsor(s): TechTarget
In the Cloud Era, The Era of Convergence Is Upon Us
The era of IT infrastructure convergence is upon us. Every major vendor has some type of offering under this category. Startups and smaller players are also "talking" convergence. But what exactly is convergence and why are all the vendors so interested in getting included in this category? We will explain below the history of convergence, what it is, what it is not, what benefits accrue from such systems, who the players are, and who is leading the pack in true convergence.
- Premiered: 06/10/14
- Author: Arun Taneja
- Published: Virtualization Review
Ready or not, converged infrastructure systems are here
Converged infrastructures assemble components from multiple IT domains into one integrated system by combining virtualization, storage, networking and compute. A management framework is also included that allows orchestration of the entire infrastructure so that each constituent technology doesn't have to be managed separately. But from that set of basic parameters, the individual flavors vary significantly, and those different flavors are well worth a closer look.
- Premiered: 07/08/14
- Author: Taneja Group
- Published: Tech Target: Search Virtual Storage