Case Study: Formica Group achieves high-performance hyperconverged infrastructure and nearly $450K savings with StarWind Software

Formica Group achieves high-performance infrastructure and realizes savings with StarWind

Formica Group, the world’s largest manufacturer of high‑pressure laminate with factories around the globe, was running three data centers with inconsistent infrastructures. Aging, end‑of‑life hardware left the company over‑provisioned on compute, short on storage, and facing high operating and financing costs with no clear disaster‑recovery approach, so it evaluated replacements from Blade & SAN to cloud IaaS and several hyperconverged vendors.

Formica deployed StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA), which doubled effective storage, cut the global hypervisor count from 22 to 8, reduced power and hosting costs, and improved performance while simplifying administration. StarWind’s 24x7 support aided deployment, and the North American ROI was under 12 months with projected savings of nearly $450,000 in 24 months.

Formica Group

Matt Collier

Group Infrastructure Engineer