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ENTERPRISE TECHNOLOGY Channel partnerships key for scalable storage company How does your offering enable customers to store data – can you explain how it is helping customers in the region? scale out as simple and easy as adding a new node to the cluster. HC3 benefits customers by providing enterprise-class storage that is easy to deploy, easy to manage and easy to scale out. This is ideal for both the data centre and for edge computing due to the low cost of deployment and simplified management. With a built-in hypervisor, built-in software- defined storage and built-in high availability and Disaster Recovery, it is well suited for any industry that requires affordable, reliable, efficient computing infrastructure. H As a hyperconverged solution, the HC3 platform combines software-defined storage with compute and virtualisation to reduce the overall cost while improving reliability. By providing our own hypervisor, HC3 integrates the storage directly eliminating the need for storage controller VMs or storage protocols. This provides an efficient data path for applications to achieve high levels of IOPS on commodity storage devices. It eliminates the need for an SAN or NAS and makes the storage more highly available as it is automatically pooled and distributed across every node in a cluster. If a disk or even a node fails, the cluster can INTELLIGENT TECH CHANNELS Issue 22 HC3 benefits customers by providing enterprise- class storage that is easy to deploy, easy to manage and easy to scale out. recover almost instantly without data loss. With HC3, the storage is an integrated part of the system and is completely automated for unmatched ease of use. There is no storage configuration required to begin creating VMs which also makes Keeping up with demand to scale can be exhausting, however, the tech market is only going to continue to snowball. Scale Computing integrates storage, servers and virtualisation software into an all in one appliance- based system which is scalable and easy to manage. Alan Conboy, Office of the CTO at Scale Computing, tells us about the importance of the company’s successful channel programme. oy , O ffi ce of t he C TO at Scale Computing How do you allow customers to derive value from their data? Customers can only derive value from their data if they can access it. IT can be very complex and difficult to manage and 19