Scale Computing Introduces Scribe Architecture for Cloud Services

Scale
Computing, Inc. announced its technology and architecture for
expanding hyperconvergence to a distributed software-defined
environment.

The foundation of this architecture is
SCRIBE, based on a scalable direct-access object store designed to
handle distributed, dynamic private and public cloud environments.

SCRIBE is currently in beta with customers.

At the heart of SCRIBE is an object
store, which is neither a traditional storage array nor a virtual
storage appliance. It creates a storage layer with direct access to
the hypervisor.  As such, the complexity of storage protocols,
file systems, and the overhead of VSAs are eliminated. This creates
storage objects that are made available to the hypervisor and
applications.

It also functions as a storage
hypervisor, enabling legacy third-party storage to be pooled with the
object store, providing investment protection of the customers’
existing storage. This sets the path for customers to move from
legacy into the vision of HC3’s software-defined environment. 

"SCRIBE will be critical for
the future of our IT infrastructure.  Cost, performance and
expandability are of the utmost importance in our business. 
SCRIBE will meet and exceed all of these as we grow as a business,"
said Eli Stillings, Summerwinds
Resorts Services LLC.

"Protocols, file systems and
VSAs represent the old way of thinking," said Jeff Ready,
CEO, Scale Computing. "They are at the core of other attempts
to create next-generation storage, but these are the very obstacles
that prevent the true implementation of a software-defined
environment.  SCRIBE eliminates these, and instead, makes
storage directly available to applications, with performance,
redundancy, and locality parameters set on a per-object basis. SCRIBE
abstracts all of the complexity of both the storage and the
infrastructure overall, delivering a platform that eliminates the
complexity of traditional VMware environments and simplifies IT for
our customers."

Since the launch of HC3 a year ago the
company has been accelerating growth of its hyperconverged platform,
designed for virtualization.  This resulted in 65%
quarter-over-quarter growth of its HC3 business.