The new offerings are more powerful than the appliances Scale has offered before, but they aren’t looking to move upmarket, just satisfy the demand of storage-hungry SMBs and midmarket customers.
The restructured Scale program accommodates managed service providers for the first time, and also makes provision for referral partners.
The most common use case for the new single node Scale Computing configuration will be providing ROBO capabilities and disaster recovery in conjunction with traditional three node appliances.
The Information Builders partnership is the first in a strategy designed to provide Scale partners with additional software services, turning their hardware platform into an App Store of sorts.
Scale is placing its bet on the SMB space, and the latest changes to its platform bring more of the simplicity that market wants.
