Case Study: Cygnus, Inc. achieves reduced hardware footprint, high availability and fault tolerance without breaking budgets with StarWind Software

Cygnus, Inc. reduces hardware footprint, gets high availability and ensures fault tolerance without breaking budgets – everything with the only one StarWind

Cygnus, Inc., an aerospace sheet‑metal and precision components manufacturer serving customers like Boeing and Lockheed Martin, was running an MS Windows AD environment across eight discrete Hyper‑V servers. A recent server failure exposed unacceptably long DR restore times, so the company needed an affordable way to achieve high availability, failover capability and fault tolerance within a small IT budget.

They deployed StarWind VSAN, a hardware‑agnostic software‑defined storage solution that leveraged existing off‑the‑shelf hardware to build a 2‑node failover cluster. This virtualization allowed Cygnus to retire old servers, provide reliable high availability and faster failover, reduce power and heat in the server closet, and stabilize operations — with responsive StarWind support and the option to add a third node for extra compute.

Cygnus

David Gardner

Information Systems Manager