TScale is produced by RTO software, a relatively young US company that was formed in 2000 with the specific aim of developing run-time optimisation of applications on Microsoft servers, hence the name RTO (Run Time Optimisation).RTO also produces a product called PMC (Performance Management Console), which allows centralised policy-based management of large TScale deployments (installation, configuration, administration and reporting).
According to the documentation, the software works towards improving scalability, performance and stability of the server. TScale implements two methods to achieve this, both centered around the applications running on the server. The first is Application Shaping and the second, Application Optimisation.
The application optimisation improves the efficiency that the applications execute as well as tweaking the virtual memory. The engineers at RTO seem obsessed with "runaway" or "rogue" applications chewing through memory and CPU resources and thereby impeding the user experience. The TScale tools allow administrators to control these issues and thereby control and smooth the users experience.
The installation, configuration, and administration of TScale are virtually identical to the Expedian application from Wyse. Which leads us to ask: which came first Expedian or TScale? After a bit of research, we found out that Expedian is an OEM version of TScale that's sold by Wyse; the products are virtually identical in all other respects.
In summary, the Expedian product and the TScale product are both very easy to deploy and administer. Either one should definitely be on any enterprise's short list for further evaluation.
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| Product | TScale |
| Price | AU$726 single-processor; AU$1,460 dual-processor; up to eight processors |
| Vendor | Crescom Info Tech |
| Phone | 03 9569 2166 |
| Web | www.crescom.com.au |
| Interoperability |  ½ |
| Single to eight-processor versions available. | |
| Futureproofing |  |
| Included features are very well designed. | |
| ROI |  |
| Per-CPU licencing model; similar to Expedian. | |
| Service |  ½ |
| Support contracts on a per-CPU basis; almost half the price of the Expedian contracts. | |
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