Every category where a model named Scale Computing for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Server virtualization platforms	Cloud and infrastructure	2%	5 of 78	0%	12	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Scale Computing yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Scale Computing across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	0	0
Mistral Small	1	0	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	1	1
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	1	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	3	4

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct8 labels1

Paraphrase6 labels3

Comparative3 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained4 labelsNone

Negative8 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative30 labels in all, every segment counted; 4 of the 4 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“For most mid-market B2B companies seeking simplicity, integrated data protection, and lower TCO, Scale Computing is currently the best overall choice.” Mistral Small · Server virtualization · direct prompt · first choice

“Ease of use with a lean IT team | Scale Computing | Incredibly hands-off, self-healing appliance” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Server virtualization · direct prompt · alternative

“Best for: Lean IT teams wanting an absolute "set-it-and-forget-it" HCI appliance.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Server virtualization · paraphrase prompt · alternative

“Want HCI with simplified ops: Nutanix AHV / Scale Computing HyperCore.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Server virtualization · direct prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Scale Computing, over the 30 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Scale Computing was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Proxmox VE26 of 308Compare →

Nutanix AHV22 of 302Compare →

VMware vSphere17 of 305Compare →

Microsoft Hyper-V16 of 304Compare →

XCP-ng11 of 300Not among the top eight

Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Local9 of 301Not among the top eight

Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization9 of 300Not among the top eight

Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager8 of 300Not among the top eight

Oracle VM VirtualBox5 of 300Not among the top eight

VMware vSphere / Cloud Foundation4 of 301Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Scale Computing. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 30 of the 30 answers that named Scale Computing and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

ciopages.com15

linkedin.com10

guideflow.com9

techdogs.com9

us.fitgap.com9

reddit.com8

cloudchipr.com7

nutanix.com7

worldmetrics.org7

diskinternals.com6

Eighty-seven of the eighty-seven domain citations in answers naming Scale Computing came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/virtualization-platform15

guideflow.com/blog/server-virtualization-software9

cloudchipr.com/blog/vmware-alternatives7

techdogs.com/td-articles/product-mine/top-5-server-virtualization-software-of-20257

cloudnuro.ai/blog/optimizing-virtual-environments-best-10-server-virtualization-software-i5

horizoniq.com/blog/vmware-alternatives5

info2soft.com/blogs/vmware-competitors.html5

thectoclub.com/tools/best-server-virtualization-software5

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

scalecomputing.com ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Scale Computing takes 2% of first choices and Proxmox VE takes 42%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “server virtualization platform”

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not in the top ten

Position for “server virtualization platforms”

Searches for its name, Google: 2,400 a month (“scale computing”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 171 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 40,371 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 8,046 · 596 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 3,283
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

30 ads · 17 text, 10 image, 3 video · 12 shown in the last 30 days

First shown July 2025, as TechnologyAdvice, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 21 in the year, 9 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 5 of 78 in server virtualization

Segment leader

42%

Proxmox VE

First choices: 4 across its categories
Named in: 30 answers
Its own site cited: in 30 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on scalecomputing.com

1,544

subdomains included

Content

1,226

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

3 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	736	13	2026-09-24	SD-WAN, SASE
News or press	316	9	2026-09-24	SD-WAN, Enterprise storage
Comparison	48	3	2026-09-21	SD-WAN, Network monitoring
Glossary or explainer	35	5	2026-09-29	IaC
Conference or event	33	1	2026-10-01
Case study	26	1	2026-09-25	SD-WAN
Webinar or virtual event	21	0	2025-10-09
Report or ebook	7	0	2025-09-17
Template or tool	3	0	2024-07-23
Podcast or video	1	0	2022-08-02

Most recent

2026-10-01Fifth annual sc platform 2027 summit in las vegas conference or event
2026-09-29What is video management software how scale computing powers vms systems glossary or explainer
2026-09-25Tubular steel sc connect sd wan case study case study
2026-09-24High availability infographic blog
2026-09-24Scale computing inc fuels momentum in the convenience store industry powering it at the edge news or press
2026-09-22Scale computing inc earns 39 badges in g2 fall 2026 reports reinforcing leadership in server virtualization and hci news or press

Events in person

Upcoming

April 20, 2027 to April 22, 2027SC//Platform™ 2027 SummitResorts World, Las Vegas · takes part

Last twelve months

April 17, 2026Scale Computing Platform//2026 SummitResorts World Las Vegas, Las Vegas · hosted

As the event pages on scalecomputing.com state them, read October 5, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page scalecomputing.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Of its titles that name a category, most name SD-WAN (15); 0 name the category the models place it in. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as Scale Computing

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Scale Computing; a claim can dispute any of them.

Scale Computing Platform 2Scale Computing (SC//HyperCore) 1Scale Computing Platform (SC//HyperCore) 1Scale Computing Platform (SC//Platform) 1

Follow Scale Computing

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Scale Computing is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: One Platform. Thousands of Sites. Zero On-Site IT.
scalecomputing.com
For: distributed enterprises
scalecomputing.com
Price stated: Our pricing is straightforward, with no hidden costs or unexpected fees. scalecomputing.com/pricing
Free plan or trial: Trial Software scalecomputing.com
Certifications: CCPAGDPRISO/IEC 27001SOC 2 Type 2PCI DSS v4.0.1
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, hosting, customers

What Scale Computing's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: scalecomputing.com, scalecomputing.com/pricing, trust.scalecomputing.com, scalecomputing.com/platform-2026-replay, scalecomputing.com/partners. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Scale Computing's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Scale Computing, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Scale Computing by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Scale Computing is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Scale Computing, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.