Case Study: Herman's Supply Company achieves reduced IT operational expenses with StarWind Software (HCI Appliance)

Herman’s Supply Company cuts its IT operational expenses by deploying a hyperconverged infrastructure with StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA)

Herman’s Supply Company, a wholesale roofing-supplies distributor serving Ontario and New York since 1969, faced aging, single-purpose physical servers spread across multiple racks and locations, which drove high hardware, power and maintenance costs and made it difficult to quickly provision or decommission servers. The IT team sought a hyperconverged solution to simplify management, reduce appliance dependency and lower total cost of ownership.

By deploying StarWind HCI Appliance, Herman’s consolidated its environment into a two-node hyperconverged cluster that delivers enterprise performance with a much smaller hardware footprint, unified management via StarWind Command Center/vSphere, and the ability to spin up or retire servers easily. The project cut operational complexity and TCO, added 24/7 ProActive Premium Support, and left room for growth—prompting the company to continue using StarWind.

Herman’s Supply Company

Norm Dashwood

IT Manager