I am currently in the process of testing one of these clusters for a client. While a full review will appear later, the short version is: crafted from pure joy. Scale has created a better (for my use cases, anyways) approach to hybrid storage than anyone else I've played with so far. I can't wait to see the results of all the testing rounds.
Scale Computing goes flashy mutant with its nodes
Hyper-converged system startup Scale Computing has added hybrid flash-disk nodes to its existing all-disk nodes, boosting performance. The existing HC1000, HC2100 and HC4100 nodes continue to be available. They are 1U boxes with a minimum three node cluster size, expandable to eight nodes and targeted at the SMB market. …
Biting the hand that feeds IT
