Case Study: Grand River Conservation Authority achieves 80% IT budget reduction with StarWind Software's Virtual SAN (VSAN)

Grand River Conservation Authority cuts its IT budget expenditures by 80% with StarWind

Grand River Conservation Authority (GRCA), a Canadian conservation agency managing the Grand River watershed, faced an aging HP P2000 Fibre Channel SAN that needed phasing out. With existing Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization in place, the agency wanted to avoid costly controller and drive upgrades and reduce IT spending without disrupting services.

By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN, GRCA converted its existing servers into a high-performance, fully fault-tolerant iSCSI/iSER SAN at a fraction of the cost. The software-defined storage solution met the agency’s needs, drastically lowering IT expenditures—cutting costs by 80%—while delivering reliable, efficient infrastructure.

Grand River Conservation Authority

Jason Liu

Agency’s Representative