Case Study: Children's Institute achieves 100% application availability and automatic Hyper-V failover with StarWind Software

Children’s Institute prevented problems with a Hyper-V host failure and ensured 100% application availability with StarWind

Children’s Institute, a Los Angeles social services agency providing early education, behavioral health and family support, faced a critical IT challenge: standalone Hyper-V hosts with no fast, reliable way to restore virtual machines after a host failure, leading to long recovery times, potential data loss and no guaranteed application availability.

The agency migrated its critical VMs to the StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA), a 100% software-defined platform that enabled synchronous failover clustering and automatic VM failover between nodes. The result was fault-tolerant, highly available infrastructure with continuous application availability, cost-effectiveness for a ROBO budget, and ongoing operational peace of mind supported by StarWind’s ProActive Support AI.

Children's Institute

Patrick Lu

IT Manager