Case Study: John Wood Community College achieves IT cost savings and simplified, high-performance infrastructure with StarWind Software's HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)

John Wood Community College achieves cost savings of its IT budget by replacing the piles of hardware resources thanks to StarWind HCA

John Wood Community College, a two-year college in Quincy, Illinois, faced a fragmented and costly IT environment made up of Dell hosts plus Dell EqualLogic and NetApp SANs running Hyper-V. Complex SAN configurations and high maintenance costs left the college seeking a hyperconverged platform to replace piles of servers and simplify operations.

Implementing StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) consolidated hosts and storage into a redundant, easy-to-manage cluster (replacing legacy hardware), enabling the college to reduce maintenance costs and purchase 25 TB of all‑flash storage. The deployment delivered higher performance, simplified administration, and cost savings, with a scalable platform for future growth.

John Wood Community College

John Entrup

Server Administrator