Name: Beyond the Data Center: Understanding the Critical Role of HCI & Edge Computing
Start: 2021-03-02T16:00:00Z
End: 2021-03-02T16:00:42.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Scale Computing Platform brings simplicity, high availability and scalability together, replacing the existing infrastructure and providing high availability for running VMs in a single, easy-to-manage platform. Run your applications in a fully integrated platform. Regardless of your hardware requirements, the same innovative software and simple user interface give you the power to run infrastructure efficiently at the edge.

You might be perfectly satisfied with your VMware investment's price, management overhead, and reliability. If so, it's all good.

Or you might be wondering if there is an alternative. You might blanch at the cost of licenses, be nervous about the impact of the Broadcom acquisition, or maybe you just want something that’s less of a struggle to maintain and patch with exponentially less downtime.

If that describes you, then join our Regcast to hear Scott Mann of Scale Computing talk about what his company has to offer. The company has surveyed VMware users, and Scott will tell Tim Phillips what they revealed about the true price customers are paying to maintain legacy virtualization deployments. He’ll also share how Scale Computing’s products could be a balm for your VMware irritation. You will learn:

- The gripes of VMware users
- Scale Computing’s alternative, now and for the future
- How to make the transition

The Register: Is it time to quit VMware?

As more VMware partners and their customers find themselves at the mercy of Broadcom’s new and, in many cases, damaging policies, they’re on a desperate hunt for alternatives. The search can be overwhelming. Dozens of vendors are coming to the forefront and pitching themselves as VMware replacements.

But how do you know those companies will stick around for the long haul, and stay committed to the channel and its end users? How does their technology interoperate with those entrenched VMware stacks? How well do they support their partners? And what is their vision for cloud computing over the next decade? The last thing channel partners need is to team with a VMware replacement provider that’s only going to cause another round of upheaval and frustration.

Attend this webinar to learn why Scale Computing is different, and why the company offers a safe landing for alienated VMware partners.

Why Alienated VMware Partners Need to Know About Scale Computing

Autonomous Infrastructure Management Engine (AIME) is the orchestration and management engine that powers SC//HyperCore. In this presentation, Scale Computing will highlight the AIOps functionality, demonstrating how AIME drastically reduces the amount of effort required to deploy, secure, manage, and maintain on-premises and edge computing infrastructure.

Recorded in San Francisco as part of Edge Field Day on February 22, 2023.

Introducing Autonomous Infrastructure Management Engine (AIME)

Scale Computing has built an ecosystem of products around SC//Platform that allows IT, DevOps, and others to continue to use the tooling they have grown accustomed to when deploying SC//Platform at the edge. In this presentation, Scale Computing will demonstrate using their Red Hat-certified Ansible Collection with tools such as Avassa, IBM Edge Application Manager, Microsoft Azure, Google Anthos, and more.

Recorded in San Francisco as part of Edge Field Day on February 22, 2023.

Container Management and Orchestration with SC//Platform from Scale Computing

A new feature of SC//Fleet Manager, Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) allows IT teams and integrators to quickly, easily, and remotely stage clusters for installation, providing the shortest time from pilot to production. In this presentation, Scale Computing will provide a live demonstration of ZTP with the help of the Edge Field Day delegates, highlighting the time-savings historically associated with Day-0 tasks.
Recorded in San Francisco as part of Edge Field Day on February 22, 2023.

Introducing Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) in Scale Computing Fleet Manager

SC//Platform combines the best of cloud and data center with the unique needs of on-premises, local computing. Its expandable, fault-tolerant architecture, automated intelligence for self-healing, and remote management with cloud-like orchestration makes SC//Platform the perfect solution for edge computing deployments.  In this presentation, Scale Computing will introduce SC//Platform with a live demonstration of SC//Fleet Manager and SC//HyperCore.
Recorded in San Francisco as part of Edge Field Day on February 22, 2023.

Intro to SC//Platform: Complete Platform for Applications at the Edge

Scale Computing is a leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions. In this presentation, viewers will learn more about Scale Computing and SC//Platform, a complete platform for running applications at the distributed edge with all the software, hardware, and services needed.
Recorded in San Francisco as part of Edge Field Day on February 22, 2023.

Who is Scale Computing?

Reduce costs and data complexity with your current IT team through automation.

Organizations are constantly battling with the demands of growth and doing more with less. In fact, according to Enterprise Strategy Group, 53% of survey respondents said their IT environment is more complex or significantly more complex than it was two years ago. Something has to give for organizations to achieve their business KPIs. By reducing cost and complexity leveraging your existing team may be the answer. Leveraging automation to achieve tasks may overcome the IT skill gap issues as well as accelerate the use of cloud adoption.  In this webinar, we will cover these topics and more such as:

•Managing IT skill gap issues on-prem and using zero touch provisioning

•Exploring how AIops within the Hypercore framework can provide observability, auto-provisioning and prevent future failure

•Accelerate cloud adoption of any resources outside the primary data center

IT Teams Need a Break: Automating Edge

You’re constantly evaluating new technologies to accelerate your organization's success and the benefits they could bring. In tech decisions, you are often forced to respond reactively. Emergency arises. Solution assessed. Solution implemented.

Instead of looking in, take a look at where business is done - at the edge. Edge computing captures and facilitates all of that and moves the business world forward at a never-before-seen pace.

The ever-expanding expectations of our digital world demand that more applications run outside the cloud or data center, close to where they are used by people, devices, and IoT technologies. But managing the sprawl of complex infrastructure to run applications locally in geographically distributed locations is an escalating burden on IT departments. If you need to run applications outside the data center and cloud but with cloud-like simplicity and performance or want to know how automation can help, join this session to learn how running applications at the edge is easier than you think.

Mitch Etchason, Product Manager at Scale Computing, discusses optimizing IT infrastructure at the edge to help you think about where you are today, and where you could be tomorrow.

Expanding to the Edge: Next-Generation IT Infrastructure

Organizations need application portability for flexible development and deployment strategies that can keep up with today’s increasingly unpredictable environments, from natural disasters to rapid ransomware attacks. Organizations that have adopted cloud-native strategies often have an easier time moving applications compared to traditional applications. However, increasing data complexity can still strain network and infrastructure capabilities, causing some organizations to also turn to edge computing in order to ease bandwidth and latency issues.

Any data management strategy needs to be carefully planned by skilled workers, yet many organizations don’t have the expertise available to manually manage cloud and edge locations. Limited IT staff, increasing data latency, data compliance regulations, and budgeting can all delay transformation. For professionals looking to reduce strain on IT teams, join host Paul Nashawaty and guests from Scale Computing and Intel as they discuss cloud and edge solutions to achieve application portability as well as:

- How to reduce costs and data complexity with your current IT team through automation
- How to utilize edge computing to address common data management concerns and needs
- Learn how Intel and Scale Computing deliver a unified infrastructure platform to run applications and process data on-premises

Organizations can avoid traditional data center pitfalls such as bandwidth limitations and
network disruptions through cloud migration and edge computing. However, ongoing data
center growth can lead to latency and increasing costs as organizations move away from
core data centers to alternative, smaller locations. As organizations process increasing
amounts of data, they not only need to consider data storage solutions but secure their IT
infrastructure against ongoing storage growth.

While organizations can scale and manage data storage through cloud and edge computing,
there are other infrastructure challenges organizations must address, from limited IT staff to
securing decentralized data. Join senior ESG analyst Paul Nashawaty and Craig Theriac,
VP of Product Management at Scale Computing as they discuss data storage and
management through the adoption of edge and cloud infrastructure, as well as:

- How organizations are utilizing their hybrid cloud application delivery systems
- Addressing low latency as well as potential connectivity and outages in infrastructure
- How Scale computing can streamline the hybrid cloud adoption process from the
data center to edge to cloud

The Future of Data Management: Edge, Cloud, and More

Edge Computing Expo Keynote speaker, Jeff Ready presents on how IT leaders in all industries are using edge computing to meet their business needs. Which kind of infrastructure platform is needed to be successful? And how to reduce management costs by 60%-80% with self-healing automation and intelligence.

Edge Computing: What Customers are Doing Today and Will Be Doing Tomorrow

The ever-expanding expectations of our digital world demand that more applications run outside the cloud or data center, close to where they are used by people, devices, and IoT technologies. But managing the sprawl of complex infrastructure to run applications locally in geographically distributed locations is an escalating burden on IT departments. If you need to run applications outside the data center and cloud, but with cloud-like simplicity and performance, join this webinar to learn how running applications at the edge is easier than you think.
During this webinar, you’ll learn about what it takes to manage applications at scale and how IT Managers can reduce maintenance time by 50% or more. You will also gain insights into Scale Computing’s significant software platform updates, allowing IT leaders to easily manage from 1 to over 50,000 clusters.

Run Applications Anywhere with Cloud-Like Simplicity and Performance

Modern application environments have been transformed thanks to containers, Kubernetes, and low-code solutions. Even as these services expand their reach, IT pros and decision makers are still figuring out how to think through these constructs. And those that have implemented them are working through integrating them into workflows. 

At the same time, new hyperconvergence, data protection, disaster recovery, and flash storage solutions have taken center stage in the datacenter which provide the optimal platforms to deploy these modern applications. It only makes sense that modern applications deserve modern infrastructure and storage for optimal performance and availability.

Enabling Modern Applications at the Edge

When combined, Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) and edge computing create the base platform needed for running the critical applications necessary for the rapid emerging technology adoption occurring today.

As organizations revisit digital transformation requirements post-COVID, there is a renewed focus on how to maximize operational efficiency, improve performance and safety, and automate as many core business processes as possible with emerging technologies. As these new technologies push their way into every part of business, the high-availability, scalability, and simplicity of a common infrastructure like Scale Computing HC3 Edge is the first logical step for IT teams.

Join Scale Computing to learn how you can immediately adopt a combination of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), edge computing and hybrid cloud on right-sized form factors allowing your IT departments to build the optimal solution for your organizational needs.

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