Case Study: Rocco’s Collision Center achieves $50,000+ IT savings and eliminates vendor lock-in with StarWind Software

Rocco’s Collision Center reduces IT operational expenses by building a hyperconverged infrastructure around StarWind HCA

Rocco’s Collision Center, an auto body and collision repair company in Blackwood, New Jersey, was struggling with a constrained hyperconverged setup: a Scale Computing KVM/Hyper‑V solution with hybrid SSDs, no GPU, and only GUI-level VM control that left the company vendor‑locked and unable to manage resources from a single pane of glass.

The company deployed a 2‑node StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA P‑Spec 23) with Hyper‑V on Windows Server 2019 and the StarWind Command Center web UI, gaining full access to Hyper‑V tools, freedom of choice in infrastructure, and centralized management. The move eliminated vendor lock‑in, provided 23 TB of all‑flash storage and enterprise specs, and is estimated to save about 50% of the StarWind purchase—roughly $50,000—over five years.

Rocco’s Collision Center