iF1 Solutions reduces IT operational expenses by replacing its aging SANs and servers thanks to StarWind HCA

We choose StarWind because it was recommended by another partner.
Ease of deployment and cost were the key factors
that brought us to StarWind HCA.

Director

PROBLEM

Before introducing StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) into its IT infrastructure, iF1 Solutions had out-of-date HPE servers with VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors on top. The company’s legacy HPE environments did not scale, and upgrade paths were confusing and poorly communicated. So, iF1 Solutions wanted to achieve scalability and follow the road of hyperconvergence with an appropriate solution that would be reasonably priced and allow to cut licensing costs. A Scale Computing product was the one that the company considered to buy but it turned out to be cost-prohibitive.

SOLUTION

iF1 Solutions has chosen StarWind HCA to replace its obsolete HPE servers and move to hyperconvergence. A 2-node StarWind cluster newly created allowed to achieve scalability and high availability (HA). Also, the StarWind product helped to reduce licensing costs by converting VMware ESXi virtual machines (VMs) to Hyper-V. All in all, thanks to StarWind, the company saves $10-20K per client vs HPE/Dell Solution. In the future, iF1 Solutions will keep replacing old HPE SANs and servers with StarWind.