Case Study: LAN Professionals achieves 5X–10X faster storage and 4X faster application response with DataCore Software (SANsymphony)

MSP Supports Rapid Growth with Software-Defined Storage

Lundberg & Associates, a real-estate law firm that grew roughly 10x, saw its mission‑critical case‑management application become severely degraded (users waited up to 15 minutes). Seeking to avoid a full hardware refresh, their MSP LAN Professionals evaluated storage‑centric fixes and implemented DataCore SANsymphony software‑defined storage from DataCore to address storage I/O bottlenecks and improve responsiveness.

LAN Professionals deployed a two‑node, synchronously‑mirrored hyperconverged setup using DataCore SANsymphony on repurposed hardware. DataCore delivered measurable results — 5X–10X faster storage performance, ~4X faster application response (Iometer improved from ~2.5 ms to ~0.7 ms), two‑node high availability, extended hardware life, and no need to buy additional hardware — enabling the MSP to expand private‑cloud services to more customers.

LAN Professionals

Andrew Bouwhuis

IT Manager