RealTime Services, a US-based finance company, faced infrastructure challenges, including low performance, issues with VM migrations, and network bottlenecks. The company needed a complex solution to enhance infrastructure reliability and reduce operational downtime. By implementing StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), RealTime Services creates a highly available HCI environment, boosting application performance, reducing network latency, and simplifying IT infrastructure management.
Precise Imaging, a U.S.-based healthcare services provider, faced the critical issue of lacking redundancy in its standalone host-based VMware infrastructure, resulting in potential downtime and data vulnerability during hardware failures. The company required a solution to establish a highly available and fault-tolerant infrastructure with full redundancy. By implementing StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA), Precise Imaging builds a hyperconverged infrastructure, eliminates downtime during maintenance or hardware failures, safeguards its critical medical data, and guarantees uninterrupted operations.
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The existing IT infrastructure of Curious Productions, a London-based independent creative production collective, consisted of Dell servers with physical #SAN and #Microsoft #Hyper-V as the hypervisor. The company faced severe performance limitations, including host capacity constraints, hindering its ability to function as a highly available cluster and jeopardizing critical business operations. By implementing #StarWind #HCI Appliance (HCA), Curious Productions creates an all-flash active-active failover cluster, increases host capacity, and significantly improves the infrastructure performance.
Andromeda Technology, a U.S.-based managed IT services provider (MSP), faced a challenge in supporting small and medium-sized network infrastructures due to the high cost of implementing proper SAN infrastructure. The company required a cost-effective and robust storage solution to provide failover and performance-optimized storage for its clients. By implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Andromeda Technology deploys high availability (HA) clusters, creates a hyperconverged environment for its client companies, overcomes budget limitations, and paves the way for ensuring its business operations 24/7.
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Allied Engineering & Services (Pvt.), the authorized dealer for Caterpillar Earthmoving Machinery and Power Generation Equipment in Pakistan, faced a challenge with inefficient storage and compute utilization due to the use of individual DAS, hindering the seamless integration of advanced VMware features. The company required a comprehensive solution to centralize storage. By implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Allied Engineering & Services (Pvt.) centralizes storage through the replication of x86 server storage, streamlines backup management, and facilitates the adoption of advanced VMware features, increasing the responsiveness of its business operations.
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The client company of Logos Data Services, a U.S.-based managed IT services provider (MSP), grappled with obsolete IT infrastructure, featuring aging Dell EqualLogic SANs and servers, leading to performance bottlenecks, elevated operational costs, and heightened risks. The company required a shared storage solution to create a hyperconverged environment. By implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), the client company of Logos Data Services seamlessly replaces outdated SANs and transitions to a streamlined hyperconverged infrastructure with just two servers, thereby improving performance and reducing operational costs.
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The Children's Foundation, a Canada-based charity organization, relied on a traditional IT infrastructure, which included a physical SAN and multiple hosts within a VMware environment. However, this infrastructure was inadequate for the Foundation's demanding software requirements, potentially necessitating substantial hardware investments. By implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) based 2-node high availability cluster, The Children's Foundation eliminates downtime, utilizes its existing server hardware effectively, and allocates more resources to its core mission of supporting children and families in need.
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The client company of GE HealthCare Technologies, Inc. (a subsidiary of General Electric), an American multinational medical technology company, faced a challenge with a shared physical SAN, introducing a single point of failure (SPOF) that jeopardized system reliability and high availability. Finding a solution that offered functionality, flexibility, and robust support within budget constraints became imperative. By implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), the client company of GE HealthCare creates a virtual SAN that replicates data, addresses the SPOF issue, and builds a highly available and flexible IT environment with reduced downtime, thus ensuring uninterrupted access to its critical medical data.
Newcastle High School for Girls GDST, a private school in Great Britain, faced a challenge with outdated IT infrastructure, hindering the introduction of Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and scalability. The existing three-host Hyper-V environment fell short, demanding a resilient solution for uninterrupted operations and future expansion. By implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), Newcastle High School for Girls GDST creates a robust HA cluster and achieves the required resiliency for the RDS introduction, thus ensuring quick and reliable access to educational resources.
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Facing exorbitant prices and vendor lock-in with traditional storage solutions, The USS Midway Museum, a maritime museum, needed a virtual shared storage solution to achieve high availability (HA) and gain control over its storage infrastructure. By implementing StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), The USS Midway Museum creates a highly available and flexible storage infrastructure, breaks free from costly support contracts, enables the utilization of commodity hardware, and saves more than $80,000 in hardware and software costs.
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