Scale Computing Platform vs. StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)

Scale Computing Platform

350 Reviews and Ratings

StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)

65 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
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
StarWind HCA	Score9 out of 10	N/A	The StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) is a hyper-converged infrastructure solution designed to reduce application downtime on a reasonable budget.	N/A

Pricing

Scale Computing Platform

StarWind HCA

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

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Pricing Offerings
Scale Computing Platform	StarWind HCA
Free Trial
Yes	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No

Optional

No setup fee

Pricing shown in U.S. Dollar. Pricing for other regions available on request.

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Scale Computing Platform	StarWind HCA
Considered Both Products	Scale Computing 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?	StarWind Verified User Chose StarWind HCA Scale seemed like a good solution also. The problem from my side was how different the end result would be from our current environment. Scale uses it's own proprietary hypervisor, so no VMware. This would save on licenses but would require a new set of skills and possibly a … Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Chapman Information Technology Director in Information Technology at Tryon International Equestrian Center (Hospitality, 201-500 employees) Chose StarWind HCA We looked at Scale Computing as another option that was more expensive. There may have been a couple more bells and whistles but for our organization and pricepoint, Starwind fit the bill. With Scale your needed three nodes and with StarWind only 2. Also, StarWind offered … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind HCA Scale was a proprietary SAN software/hardware and outrageously high priced. The StarWind HyperConverged Appliance was just Dell servers with VMWare ESXi Hypervisor installed running two Windows Servers virtual machines where the StarWind SAN software is installed on. The only … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose StarWind HCA StarWind HyperConverged Appliance was the only option that offered the performance, reliability, and high availability that we were looking for. It's also the solution that is tailored for small organizations and removes a lot of the complexities and extra components needed to … Incentivized Helpful? Brendan McEnnerney Information Technology Manager in Information Technology at Tryon International Equestrian Center (Entertainment, 51-200 employees) Chose StarWind HCA I've never used a Scale appliance, but I've researched them and talked to their sales team and engineers. I decided to go with StarWind vs Scale largely because of price, but I also wanted to use Hyper-V and didn't really want to go with a proprietary hypervisor, which is what … Incentivized Helpful? Brent Day IT Manager in Information Technology at VIP Technology Solutions Group (Information Technology & Services, 11-50 employees) Chose StarWind HCA We chose Starwind over Nutanix and Scale because of price and hypervisor. Both Nutanix and Scale use a customer hypervisor and we wanted to use a hypervisor we were already well versed in. Starwind won over Simplivity because of cost and support. During our talks with HP we … Incentivized Helpful? Ben Poole Divisional IT Director in Information Technology at The Salvation Army (Religious Institutions, 10,001+ employees) Chose StarWind HCA At the time of our purchase, we chose StarWind over Scale for the performance and affordability it offered over Scale's HC3 platform. From Sales to Service we had a very comfortable feeling from all teams at StarWind. We liked Scale's offerings, but StarWind for us was a … Incentivized Helpful? Ho-Ching Yung IT Director/Senior Software Developer in Information Technology at Hillis-Carnes Engineering (Civil Engineering, 201-500 employees) Chose StarWind HCA We really like Scale HC3, but it's over our budget. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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User Ratings
	Scale Computing Platform	StarWind HCA
Likelihood to Recommend	9.9 (244 ratings)	8.4 (61 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.4 (22 ratings)	8.2 (4 ratings)
Usability	7.5 (40 ratings)	7.3 (3 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (1 ratings)	9.7 (53 ratings)
Performance	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (245 ratings)	9.5 (54 ratings)
In-Person Training	1.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.1 (2 ratings)	7.3 (2 ratings)
Configurability	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	9.1 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)