ClusterScale was born out of Loadbalancer.org on January 1st 2008. Loadbalancer.org was the product of an engineer “scratching an itch”. Malcolm Turnbull was looking into improving the availability for the UK’s largest online garden centre Crocus.co.uk. Instead of making an expensive purchase he chose to make his own clustered pair of load balancers on commodity hardware running an open source software stack. This was then made into a commercial product and sold as an appliance.
Loadbalancer.org is holding its ground against a large number of new competitors and has a good reputation for being honest with no nonsense and easy to use high performance products. ClusterScale has raised the bar within the load balancing market with ClusterLoad, the first 64 bit load balancer, set on Dell hardware providing performance to match the best, at a price point that provides a great Return on Investment (RoI).
The company launched in January and in that short time has expanded its product line to include a virtual appliance, ClusterLoad ESX VA, and the new ClusterMirror database replication appliance, which is a first for the market. Constantly innovating, ClusterScale is a technology-driven organisation, providing high-availability cost-effective solutions to ensure continuous top performance for its customers networks and databases.
Core values
ClusterScale believes that networks and applications should work, simply and effectively. To this end, all ClusterScale products are built on the following key principles:
Open source commitment – All ClusterScale products are based on open source technology, and is compatible with most network and database platforms, such as: Linux 5, MySQL, Red Hat Enterprise offering database clustering for any Linux-based database or application server.
Ease of installation and use – ClusterScale offers on-suite installation and consultancy support, with ‘plug and play’ set up and clean and simple web based interfaces.
Superior technical support – ClusterScale provides 24/7 technical support with experienced ClusterScale engineers on hand at all times, guaranteeing its customers can speak to someone who can provide intelligent answers.
The hardware maintenance advantage – Unlike other appliances on the market ClusterScale doesn’t lock its customers into its technology, the hardware maintenance contract is direct with Dell, with customers registered under their own name.
Product portfolio
ClusterScale products include:
ClusterMirror - a unique cost-effective database appliance for any business requiring high availability. It provides a plug and play database clustering appliance which creates an exact physical duplicate of your database in real time
The ClusterLoad Range:
ClusterLoad Pegasys - cost effective, high availability load balancing to match any system on the market at a fraction of the cost. Suitable for mid to large organisations, ClusterLoad Pegasys is the perfect solution for companies looking for a no-nonsense solution that can provide performance peace of mind.
ClusterLoad Nemasys - Nemasys provides all the functionality of ClusterLoad Pegasys, yet with added safeguards to ensure systems are protected at their most vulnerable points. ClusterLoad Nemasys offers the first hot swap ‘RAID’ drive load balancer appliance in the industry, with dual power supply units (PSUs) and a higher performance chip to ensure ultra high availability.
ClusterLoad ESX VA - almost identical to the widely implemented ClusterLoad hardware appliances listed above, ClusterLoad ESX VA manages your application traffic, inspecting, transforming and routing requests as it load balances them across the application infrastructure. ClusterLoad ESX VA has passed VMware's stringent VA Certification program.
Channel partners and customers
ClusterScale is a 100 percent channel focused organisation operating on a world-wide scale. The company is now looking for new channel partner, offering very channel friendly margins for both resellers and distributors. At present the company has around 40 partners worldwide, including: Dell, MySQL, Red Hat, Mid Atlantic Data Systems (MADS), Lombard TS, AV Net, ANSecurity.
ClusterScale has a range of customers from all over the world that it has helped to maintain the high availability of their networks and databases. Customers include: Trend Micro, Porsche, Crocus, mymovies.net, ASOS.com and many more.
The ClusterScale range is a vital aid to any organisation that can’t afford to lose data or network connection, yet needs to remain cost-effective. This therefore makes it a perfect option for public sector organisations. As we all know, particularly in the current climate, budgets are very tight and there is a need to find solutions that can provide a quality service without breaking the bank. This is where ClusterScale steps in. With its focus on cost efficiency the company can provide a solution to rival the top names, while still keeping their price at a reasonable level – meaning organisations do not have to make a choice between data security and budgets.
Contact Information
To find out more about ClusterScale and its range of products, please visit: www.clusterscale.com. Alternatively please contact Stephen Wilde on: (0)844 669 8375, or via email at:
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