echnology from Scale Computing to Cut Storage Costs by up to 70%

The cost of data storage for UK SMEs drops dramatically this week as Scale Computing makes its third-generation storage solutions available in the UK and Europe. Jeff Ready, CEO and founder of Scale Computing comments “Scale Computing has been widely embraced by SMEs across the globe that are trying to grow storage capacity while cutting costs, increase scalability control and make storage more convenient to manage. Building on our success in the US and Japan, we are confident our storage solutions will be quickly adopted in the UK and European market as it faces many of the same challenges.”Scale’s first UK customer is the City of London, the local government services provider for London’s ‘Square Mile’. Scale, working with reseller partner Kisdata, is providing a 12 TB (usable storage space) StarterCluster to store City of London’s growing photographic library at the London Metropolitan Archives (LMA).

Scale, developer and manufacturer of complete mid-market intelligent clustered storage solutions (ICS), is launching in Europe to tackle the rising SME storage demand across the region. The company’s flexible storage portfolio gives SMEs secure, easy-to-manage and affordable storage solutions, delivering a performance level which would previously have only been available to larger corporations with bigger IT budgets. As opposed to scale up storage, Scale’s storage solutions are scale out – the third generation of storage, which enables organizations to buy storage as they need it, and add capacity as they grow. As noted by Gartner, “Scale-out and virtual storage area network architectures promise lower storage total cost of ownership by reducing acquisition costs and extending these systems' service lives via server virtualization technologies, self- or third-party maintenance and changes in asset management,” says Stanley Zaffos, vice president and research director, Gartner.