Case Study: Prior Pursglove College achieves cost-effective, scalable high-availability storage with StarWind Software

Prior Pursglove College - Customer Case Study

Prior Pursglove College, a sixth-form college in Guisborough, needed a high‑availability storage solution to support its Hyper‑V virtual environment that was cost‑effective, scalable, robust, easy to manage and fully compatible with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2. The college’s existing proprietary SAN was complex, costly to upgrade and time‑consuming to manage, so IT Systems Manager Robert Marshall set out to evaluate alternative technologies.

After thorough testing, the college deployed StarWind Virtual SAN, turning their Windows Server 2008 R2 hosts into a resilient, easy‑to‑manage HA SAN. The solution met all requirements, improved application and data availability, reduced total cost of ownership, and simplified administration—allowing the IT team to better support users and resulting in a highly satisfied endorsement from the college’s IT manager.

Prior Pursglove College

Robert Marshall

IT Systems Manager