Case Study: myCREcloud achieves nearly $50,000 in cost savings and eliminates physical SAN limitations with StarWind Software

myCRE, Inc. accumulate near $50,000 for future business growth removing physical SAN storage limitations with the help of StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA)

myCRE, Inc., a California-based cloud hosting provider for the construction and real estate market, faced limits from a traditional VMware cluster backed by physical SAN storage. The SAN imposed high costs, constrained growth, lower performance, and vendor lock-in, preventing granular expansion and forcing expensive one‑time SAN upgrades.

By switching to StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA), myCRE eliminated vendor dependency, distributed the “SAN” role across standard hardware, and retained local performance with networked secondary copies for reliability. The move unlocked significant hardware savings — sourcing SSDs directly saved $500–$3,000 per disk and avoided $30k–$60k SAN expansions — freeing up nearly $50,000 for future growth and prompting plans to expand StarWind arrays across additional datacenters.

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Daryl Jennings

President