StarWind HyperConverged Appliance and Scale Computing Platform compete in the hyper-converged infrastructure market. Based on feature diversity and high availability, StarWind appears stronger, while Scale Computing focuses on simplicity and ease of management.
Features: StarWind HyperConverged Appliance includes live migration capabilities, a unified management console, and high availability, providing proactive support and efficient redundancy. Scale Computing Platform is known for its user-friendly interface, appliance-type feel without additional licenses, and seamless operation continuity during device failures.
Room for Improvement: StarWind users note the need for an intuitive GUI and enhanced proactive features in monitoring. Scale Computing users seek better replication capabilities, scalability, and more advanced backup solutions, as external enhancements may be necessary for complex scenarios.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: StarWind HyperConverged Appliance offers thorough deployment assistance on-premises and supports customers with a knowledgeable team. Scale Computing Platform provides a hybrid cloud deployment option, appealing to those favoring flexible setups, and matches StarWind with commendable customer service.
Pricing and ROI: StarWind HyperConverged Appliance offers cost-effectiveness with its upfront pricing model, delivering substantial ROI by reducing management costs in configurations with fewer nodes. Scale Computing Platform, though efficient, might incur higher node expenses when scaling; however, it remains an affordable choice aligning with its initial cost strategy for providing value.
| Product | Market Share (%) |
|---|---|
| StarWind HyperConverged Appliance | 1.1% |
| Scale Computing Platform | 1.9% |
| Other | 97.0% |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 5 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 3 |
| Large Enterprise | 1 |
| Company Size | Count |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 50 |
| Midsize Enterprise | 22 |
| Large Enterprise | 8 |
Scale Computing Platform brings together simplicity and scalability, replacing existing infrastructure to empower enterprises to run applications and process data outside centralized data centers, at the edge of their networks, closest to where data is created and utilized. With Scale Computing Fleet Manager, the industry’s first cloud-hosted monitoring and management tool built for hyperconverged edge computing infrastructure at scale, customers can quickly identify areas of concern using a single pane of glass, scaling from 1 to over 50,000 clusters. Zero-touch provisioning enables administrators to centrally monitor and manage hundreds or thousands of distributed edge infrastructure deployments with minimal or no on-site IT personnel.
Scale Computing Platform helps create affordable infrastructure that's scalable and highly available by combining servers, storage, hypervisor, and backup/DR into a single appliance. This innovation lowers costs of primary and edge infrastructure across the organization, so you can put money back into your business.
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What benefits should users look for in reviews?
For SMB, ROBO and Enterprises, who look to bring in quick deployment and operation simplicity to virtualization workloads and reduce related expenses, our solution is StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA). It unifies commodity servers, disks and flash, hypervisor of choice, StarWind Virtual SAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct or VMware Virtual SAN and associated software into a single manageable layer. The HCA supports scale-up by adding disks and flash, and scale-out by adding extra nodes.
StarWind HyperConverged Appliance consists of StarWind Virtual SAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct or VMware Virtual SAN “Ready Nodes”, targeting those, who are building their virtualization infrastructure from scratch. In case there is an existing set of servers, we offer a “software only version”, which is essentially our years proven StarWind Virtual SAN. Basically, it’s the fuel powering StarWind HCA.
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