Scale
Computing has partnered with APC by Schneider Electric to deliver a Micro Data
Center in a Box solution.
By
utilizing Schneider Electric's award-winning Micro Data Center portfolio of
infrastructure solutions, the Micro Data Center in a Box is able to deliver a
fast, cost effective and resilient solution for channel partners, MSPs and end
users while meeting the distinct challenges of big data and IoT faced by many
businesses today.
The joint platform is built on a highly
simplified but extremely effective and adaptable infrastructure. Micro Data
Center in a Box offers a range of shared automated virtualization, compute,
storage and power management resources. Under the terms of the agreement, Scale
Computing supplies its HC3 HyperCore software while APC delivers a
self-contained and secure enclosure. This solution allows organizations to
simply and efficiently deliver a complete and highly energy efficient IT
solution that is pre-tested, optimized and able to be rapidly deployed. This
allows for a reliable and robust environment to leverage the best of on-premise
and multi-cloud infrastructures.
The Micro Data Center in a Box requires minimal
IT expertise and no additional infrastructure software. Instead, it is a highly
available, self-managing platform for running applications at the edge. The
added pay as you grow flexibility enables organizations to start small and grow
their IT as and when needed. In addition, it has built-in redundancy to provide
business continuity, even in remote edge locations. The solution is
pre-packaged and ships ready to be deployed, providing a quick, turn-key and
simple IT infrastructure, optimized to immediately support edge computing
needs.
Organizations from numerous vertical sectors
are realizing the huge benefits of embedding compute and storage capacity to
the edge, closer to where the data is being generated. Retailers, utility
companies, hospitals, universities and logistics businesses are among the many
seeing the result of addressing the demand for highly distributed capacity in
this way. According to 451
Research, Micro Data
Centers on the edge of the network are growing in popularity with a compound
annual growth rate of 42% over the last three years.
Jeff Ready, CEO of Scale Computing, commented:
"One of the biggest challenges faced by businesses today is how to simplify
edge IT environments, where resources and staffing are often quite different.
Deploying our Micro Data Center in a Box gives organizations the flexibility to
quickly scale capacity and computing power at the edge, while eliminating the
complexity of managing separate hypervisors, backup software, and disaster
recovery software. This fully integrated solution saves time, money and resources,
which will be a game changer for these edge and remote environments, and for
those channel partners and MSPs who serve them across the world."
Scale Computing customer, Benchmark
Electronics, is looking to deploy Scale Computing and APC Micro Data Center in
a Box solutions across its distributed enterprise. Stacy Black, corporate
director of global IT infrastructure and operations at Benchmark Electronics
said: "The cost-effective solution will greatly simplify physical
infrastructure deployment in our edge environments. The plug and play devices
are easy for staff at any location, regardless of their technical capabilities,
to get up and running quickly without having to know how to install, deploy and
maintain the infrastructure. The Micro Data Center in a Box will also ensure
uniform configuration and installation across company's edge locations."
John
Knorr, VP, global IT channel alliance from Schneider Electric, concluded: "Our
joint Micro Data Center in a Box solution is a great example of the capabilities
and technologies we are able to deliver customers in edge environments. When we
partner with organizations like Scale Computing, combining our Micro Data
Center solutions with Scale's HC3 HyperCore software, we deliver on our mission
to provide our customers "Certainty in a Connected World."