Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure vs. Scale Computing Platform

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

170 Reviews and Ratings

Scale Computing Platform

350 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure	Score8.3 out of 10	N/A	Nutanix in San Jose, California offers their software-defined Enterprise Cloud as a hyper-converged infrastructure solution. The Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure solution combines the Nutanix Acropolis virtualization solution, Nutanix AHV hypervisor (though Acropolis works with other hypervisors), Prism cluster manager, Nutanix Calm and Nutanix Flow server management, and is available on the Nutanix NX series of server hardware appliances, as well as third-party OEM appliances.	N/A
Scale Computing Platform	Score7.9 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	Scale Computing offers edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions for customers around the globe. Scale Computing HyperCore software promises to eliminate traditional virtualization software, disaster recovery software, servers, and shared storage, replacing these with a fully integrated, highly available system for running applications. The vendor says that, using patented HyperCore™ technology, the SC//HyperCore self-healing platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and…	$249 per year per core

Pricing

Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

Scale Computing Platform

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Standard: $249
per year per core
Professional: $312
per year per core
Professional Essentials: $5,600
one-time fee

Pricing Offerings
Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure	Scale Computing Platform
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure	Scale Computing Platform
Considered Both Products	Nutanix No answer on this topic	Scale Computing Carlos Coque System Administrator in Information Technology at IBEX Payroll Services (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform We ended up choosing Scale Computing Platform 4 years ago because that had better pricing than the other players and would offer everything we elected as pre-requisite for our system to work. Today, after several years using their system with no major issues, we can say it was … Incentivized Helpful? Syed Fahad Hussain IT Busniess Partner_HR in Information Technology at Tapal Tea (Food & Beverages, 201-500 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale computing platform fix all our problem that's one shop solution for us. Incentivized Helpful? Joao Camargo System Administrator in Information Technology at Servix (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale Computing Platform provided all the functionalities we needed for our daily operations, with features that align with our processes. It has the advantage of a unified software package, without add-ons, which proved to be a financial advantage during the acquisition. It … Incentivized Helpful? Romuel Imperial Product Sales Manager in Sales at Synetcom Philippines Inc. (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform I have chosen Scale Computing Platform over the Nutanix for this reasons, #1 is the price difference between Scale Computing Platform and Nutanix. #2 is the complexity and ease of use of both solutions. In my opinion, Scale Computing Platform is way above nutanix as to the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform At the end of the day, and in the environment we are in, Scale just fits the bill, both price-wise and functionality-wise. Upgrading our VM environment was always a week-long process, now, it is a twenty-minute process, implementing, converting VMs, and rolling everything over … Incentivized Helpful? Judy L. Berglund Solutions Architect - Infrastructure Solutions Group in Engineering at Lenovo (Architecture & Planning, 10,001+ employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform To be honest hyper-converged infrastructure products dramatically show improvement from start up. Providing a single pane of glass management is important in any of these HCI products. I like any/all of the HCI products I've worked with thus far. Incentivized Helpful? Ryan Mattson IT Director in Information Technology at Uintah County (Government Administration, 201-500 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform We purchased about 3 years ago. At the time the pricing of these other options was massively higher than Scale HC3. Most of the other options have steep learning curves. Nutanix like HC3 runs on a KVM architecture making it similar but other than a few bells and whistles I … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale Computing HC3 was not only cheaper than every solution that we looked at. It also had the easiest interface to learn and the least amount of hardware. We eliminated any and all setup/implementation costs as we were able to set up the cluster ourselves. All of the other … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale offered an all in one solution, with its own hypervisor. Having a single pain of glass for storage and computing makes it way easier to support. As a one man IT dept I was looking for as simple, yet robust as possible option. Scale fit that need, as well as came in under … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform When it was time to refresh our old previous virtual environment, we looked at traditional server/storage, server/san, as well as other HCI competitors. We evaluated many solutions, but decided on Scale Computing for its simplicity to manage, use and setup, cost, but most of … Incentivized Helpful? Rodd Ahrenstorff Director of Operations, Partner in Information Technology at KT Connections, Inc (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform VMware has significantly more complexity. Nutanix no longer addressed the SMB market very well or edge-computing. Incentivized Helpful? Anthony Martin System Administrator in Information Technology at Continental Stock Transfer & Trust (Financial Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform There are several feasible products in the hyper-converged marketplace (aside from Scale HC3) that review well, and are capable, effective products. However, upon analyzing you will find that just about all of these products/solutions are catering primarily to large … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform Ease of use and TOC. We needed to go with something simple as our environment is not complex. The members of the IT team are lower level from a technical standpoint and can easily administer the system. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform More flexible and willingness to meet customer requirements vs other companies. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale has basically the same features that Nutanix offers but was more geared towards small to medium size business. Scale was the only vender that offered an evaluation tool to see exactly how much power we needed in each node to begin our transition. Based on that they gave … Incentivized Helpful? Zac Patterson I.T Tech in Information Technology at City of Havre de Grace (Government Administration, 51-200 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform I believe there are many pros and cons to each of the stated products but I feel when looking at Scale compared to those products Scale was an easy choice based on its performance, its user-friendly dashboard, their customer service and lastly the price. I felt as if you … Incentivized Helpful? Durgesh Kalya Senior IT, I&C Systems Coordinator in Information Technology at JX Nippon Chemical Texas Inc (JXNCTI) (Chemicals, 51-200 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform The vendors that I mentioned offer solutions very close to Scale Computing however, we found out that their solutions had many pieces and a lot of overhead. The overall ability to consolidate different pieces such as Backup-replication, Storage, Virtualization Software, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Scale Computing Platform As a long-time HPE shop, we did look at Simplivity (even knowing that HPE's lackadaisical support was likely to poison Simplivity post-acquisition), but we were very underwhelmed by the demonstrator's lack of expertise in the product, and some basic limitations surrounding the … Incentivized Helpful? Bronn Salmon IT Director in Information Technology at Sunshine Community Health Center (Hospital & Health Care, 51-200 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform If I felt they were better I would have purchased them instead. Incentivized Helpful? Chris Selby Director - Infrastructure & Cybersecurity in Information Technology at Echo Energy (Oil & Energy, 51-200 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform We have built out several test environments and have demoed all of these products and we were not able to build out or purchase an environment that performed as well or had the features as Scale HC3 for the same investment. Incentivized Helpful? Tracy Burton Network Administrator in Information Technology at Insight Lighting (Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 51-200 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale replaced a VMWare solution. We compared Scale against a new VMWare solution as well as against a Nutanix hyper-converged solution. After looking at the costs, features, support, and hardware, Scale was the easy choice for our business. It fit every need we had and after 6 … Incentivized Helpful? David Roden Director Of Technology in Information Technology at Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann, LLP (Law Practice, 51-200 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform Nutanix could not compete on price. Not even close. It is a much more complex environment to configure and manage. While this probably means it has a few additional features, we did not encounter any that were relevant to us. It's lone advantage was onsite hardware support. … Incentivized Helpful? Jerry Gerlach Information Technology Director in Information Technology at City of Biddeford, Maine (Government Administration, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Scale Computing Platform Scale was less expensive and delivered all of our needs. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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User Ratings
	Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure	Scale Computing Platform
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (75 ratings)	9.9 (244 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	8.2 (6 ratings)	9.4 (22 ratings)
Usability	8.6 (7 ratings)	7.5 (40 ratings)
Availability	8.6 (2 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Performance	8.5 (51 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Support Rating	9.7 (54 ratings)	9.1 (245 ratings)
In-Person Training	8.6 (2 ratings)	1.0 (1 ratings)
Online Training	9.1 (3 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (2 ratings)	9.1 (2 ratings)
Configurability	8.6 (2 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Ease of integration	5.2 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (2 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	5.2 (2 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	5.2 (2 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)