From Scale Computing, HC1250DFG and HC5250DFG HC3 Infrastructure Appliances

Scale Computing, Inc. has introduced HC3 infrastructure appliances that deliver the processing power of Nvidia GPUs.

For power-users on virtual desktops or computing-intensive applications for design or analytics, the HC1250DFG and HC5250DFG appliances engage performance GPUs to provide increased speed and processing efficiency. The company is a technology provider delivering performance applications from the data center to the edge on the same software platform and interface.

As remote work becomes a long term reality, organizations continue to execute on getting systems in place to support all remote users, whether they leverage applications in the cloud or work with high performance applications that require dedicated GPU and high frame buffer requirements for remote users hosted on premises. These HC3 hyperconverged appliances are designed to enhance support for performance-intensive use cases such as high density VDI deployments, 3D imaging/modeling, analytics, AI, and GIS. With flexible deployment options from one appliance to clusters of multiple appliances, these appliances provide a highly-available, high-performance, hyperconverged virtualization platform.

The HC3 infrastructure appliances delivering the processing power from Nvidia GPUs join other recently introduced HCI appliances designed to meet the needs for performance computing for both the enterprise and the SMB and from the core data center to the edge.

• HC3250DF stands out from other HCI solutions designed for performance computing with its ease of use, and brings a high amount of speed, density, throughput, and power to enable VDI for many more users per node while keeping future growth in focus. Unlike more complex infrastructure solutions that try to emulate classic SAN storage infrastructure, the HC3250DF is easier to deploy, manage, scale out, and its NVMe storage architecture requires no manual configuration and consumes less system RAM, resulting in more RAM being available to VMs and their applications.

• HE150 appliance is a small, all-flash, NVMe storage-based compute appliance that delivers the simplicity and enterprise-ready virtualization associated with HC3 platform. Built for sites that need highly available infrastructure, it can be deployed almost anywhere, without requiring a rack or server closet. Taking the space needed to stack 3 smartphones, it also includes HA clustering, rolling upgrades and integrated data protection.

“Enterprise and SMB customers have a need for performance-intensive use cases, both in their data centers and at the edge,” commented Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder. “Scale Computing customers now don’t have to choose different platforms to manage their data center and edge computing needs, either for on site or remote workers The HC3 platform is able to handle any application needs necessary.“

All the firm’s HC3 appliances feature intelligent automation for self-healing and HA to keep clusters running through component and appliance failures, as well as integrated DR capabilities to protect data and workloads to remote sites for fast failover and recovery. These capabilities enable applications to achieve maximum uptime even when local IT resources and staff are scarce, making the HC1250DFG and HC5250DFG appliances application platforms for core data center to edge computing use cases for retail, industrial, transportation, manufacturing, finance, healthcare, education, remote office/back office, and mobile platforms.

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