Scale Computing
A long time ago, back in 2006, Scale’s engineers built a super computer called Super Bruce. Super Bruce was a stateless computer that stood 8.5 feet tall and was packed with hundreds of processors…
Super Bruce needed data storage. Their research revealed that a few TBs of storage cost more than Super Bruce cost to build. Additionally, existing market solutions in their price range couldn’t scale like Super Bruce (SB). SB used an advanced parallel file system called GPFS by IBM that was found only in the world’s most complex supercomputing installations. They could scale processing power easily (hence the 8.5 feet of Intel chips), but couldn’t find an affordable solution to linearly grow storage.
They called some customers from their previous companies (Radiate, Corvigo, Tumbleweed). They all gave them the same answer: it couldn’t be found because affordable, clustered, scale-out storage didn’t exist for the midmarket. Their customers went on to add that if they could make midmarket storage solutions less costly, more convenient to manage, and with added control over scalability, they’d buy them.
So Scale Computing did.
Super Bruce transformed into their first Storage Nodes as the engineers wrote the code for their patent-pending Intelligent Clustered Storage (ICS) architecture.
Using IBM’s GPFS as its core, ICS was molded into the architecture their customers demanded:
- Flexible. Mix and match multiple node densities on a single system.
- Scalable. Scale into the petabytes, one terabyte at a time.
- Unified. Multi-protocol functionalities combine file and block level services into one device to save power and management costs.
- Easy-to-Use. No more three-day training sessions and 100 calls to support. Plug it in, set it up in less than an hour, and forget it exists.
- Affordable. Low entry price that’s up to 70 percent less than other comparable storage solutions. Scaling is less expensive as the minimum expansion purchase requirement is only 1TB, not 5 TBs or more like other solutions. Buy what you need, when you need it.
We know you’ll like Scale Computing’s storage.