Case Study: RealTime Services achieves resilient, high-performance storage and $1,500/month savings with StarWind Software

RealTime Services gets a turnkey IT infrastructure building block delivering ultimate flexibility and performance with StarWind

RealTime Services, a U.S. accounting and financial outsourcing firm serving SMBs and ROBOs, struggled with leased VMware servers from a hosting provider that offered no cluster storage and only 1Gbps connectivity. Running Microsoft Hyper‑V on that infrastructure led to slow SSD and data transfer performance, sluggish VM migrations, and limited ability to upgrade without the host extending contracts.

RealTime deployed StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) as a turnkey infrastructure building block, gaining resilient, high‑speed storage (inline dedupe, SSD/HDD blending, FS optimizations) and seamless VM migration across hosts. The move eliminated the need to lease extra servers, improved upgrade flexibility, and delivered roughly $1,500 in monthly savings; RealTime plans to remain with StarWind for at least five years.

Realtime Services

Jeff Sabotin

IT Director