Scale Computing Courts VMware Renewals With 40% Lower TCO Claim
AUSTIN, Texas – November 04, 2026 -- Scale Computing says nearly 10,000 interactions with its TCO calculator show an average 40% lower total cost of ownership than VMware, as the edge computing vendor targets customers weighing renewals under VMware's new packaging and per-core licensing.
The same calculator data produced an average modeled return on investment of 119%. The Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG) also named Scale Computing a Top 5 VMware Alternative for 2026-27.
Scale Computing frames VMware renewals as a distributed-site problem
The company argues that for organizations with many locations, a renewal affects staffing, maintenance, migration and site-level resilience, not only the licensing quote. Sites with minimal or no on-site IT staff face extra site visits when hardware fails, patches are missed or configurations drift.