Edge computing firm Scale Computing expanded its Lenovo partnership in a play for the increasingly fragmented virtual machine (VM) market.

Virtualization platform Scale Computing HyperCore, also known as SC//HyperCore, now powers Lenovo ThinkEdge SE100 for edge, branch, and core workloads.

Scale Computing’s Reliant Platform Edge Computing as a Service (ECaaS) is also available on the ThinkEdge SE100 via Lenovo’s hardware and software bundle service, On Demand.

The Lenovo partnership was mainly pitched at VMware migration initiatives, bringing yet more names to an already crowded market since Broadcom’s ongoing cloud pivot of VMware has led some customers to begin jumping ship.

Caylent, OVHcloud, Platform9, and Nutanix have all offered VMware exit options in the last year, while Gartner warned that the virtual machine (VM) giant will lose 35% of workloads by 2028 to hyperscalers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), which recently launched a VMware migration tool.

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The Lenovo partnership follow's Scale Computing's September updates to SC//HyperCore, which saw enhanced node lifecycle management and integrations with Veeam’s data protection platform.

Those updates come after the firm was acquired by edge and network firm Acumera in July, in a bid to strengthen Acumera's position as a “market leader” in delivering scalable and integrated edge platforms for enterprises operating across distributed locations.

The combined company was rebranded as Scale Computing, bringing together Scale’s hardware and virtualization offerings with Acumera’s AcuVigil platform.

Prior to the acquisition, Scale partnered with multicloud infrastructure and data protection provider Otava to deliver edge computing infrastructure solutions.

Founded in 2007, Scale Computing had previously raised more than $200 million across 11 funding rounds, with past investors including Lenovo, Morgan Stanley, Elevate Ventures, Runways Growth Capital, ABS Capital Partners, and others.