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CJIS Solutions achieves consistent uptime and protection against customer-impacting downtime by replacing its unstable storage with StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN)

February 05, 2026
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Mike Coppola
President and Founder. Has deep expertise in secure IT architecture, CJIS-compliant cloud computing, and data protection solutions for law enforcement agencies.
President and Founder. Has deep expertise in secure IT architecture, CJIS-compliant cloud computing, and data protection solutions for law enforcement agencies.

CHALLENGE

Before deploying StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN), CJIS Solutions ran its infrastructure on Microsoft Hyper-V with Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) and a stretched cluster. The setup looked good on paper but was unstable in daily work. The environment crashed often and required constant support just to stay running. Each outage risked customer dissatisfaction and lost revenue. The team had no clear way to fix the instability without replacing the storage layer.

The company searched for an option that could bring reliability without adding complexity. StarWind was the only solution they evaluated, hoping it would finally stop the cycle of crashes and support tickets.

Ever since we put the system with StarWind VSAN in about 3 or 4 years ago, we’ve never had a single blip on the radar. No outages, downtime, or otherwise. The support is AMAZING. They’re better than Microsoft at Microsoft’s own products.

Mike Coppola, President and Founder

SOLUTION

CJIS Solutions chose StarWind VSAN because it allowed the company to replace the unreliable storage setup and immediately stabilize the environment. Since deploying StarWind 3-4 years ago, CJIS Solutions has not experienced a single outage, error, or moment of downtime. The platform became smooth, predictable, and easy to manage. Operations stopped depending on constant vendor support, and the company avoided customer loss linked to previous downtime, saving significant money in the long run.

StarWind’s Support Team stood out as exceptionally responsive and knowledgeable. Satisfied with the results, CJIS Solutions plans to keep using StarWind VSAN and renew its support services.

About the Company
CJIS Solutions is the U.S. CJIS-compliant cloud hosting provider, serving law enforcement agencies and their vendors. Its offerings include email, data backup and disaster recovery, file sharing, website hosting and design, cloud computing and storage, as well as physical hard drive and device shredding.
Region
NA (North America)
Country
United States
Industry
IT & Services
Product
StarWind Virtual SAN
Inspired by Mike Coppola’s success? Want to improve business continuity for your business-critical apps and services?
Dmytro Malynka StarWind Virtual SAN Product Manager
We’ve got you covered! StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN) is specifically designed to provide highly-available shared storage for Hyper-V, vSphere, and KVM clusters. With StarWind VSAN, simplicity is key: utilize the local disks of your hypervisor hosts and create shared HA storage for your VMs. Interested in learning more? Book a short StarWind VSAN demo now and see it in action!