Scale Computing launches the HE500 series of appliances in the HC3 family-- a range of hyper-converged appliances aimed at edge computing applications, with designs optimised for settings limited in both space and capacity requirements.
“Unlike other HCI solutions that reserve large compute resources to run their Virtual Storage Appliances, the HE500 series takes advantage of the efficient, hypervisor-embedded HC3 storage stack to free up RAM and CPU for running workloads," the company says. This dramatically lowers the hardware and software investment needed to provide high availability to edge workloads."
HE500 series hardware provides enterprise-class features to remote locations, and boost edge computing capabilities with disaster recovery. Each appliance promises quick deployment, remote or local management, and self-healing technology providing "almost instant" failover and minimal downtime. The design is more lightweight than appliances in the HC1000 and HC5000 series, and each model comes pre-installed with HC3 HyperCore Software adding an intelligent and automated layer bringing simple operation and the necessary performance for edge computing requirements.
Models in the HE500 series come as 1U rack-mount or tower configurations, with specs including HDD, all-flash or hybrid storage and either 32 or 64GB of RAM. Customers can also choose between 1GbE or 10GbE SFP+ networking interfaces and three different processor options.
The HE500 series is available now.
