Case Study: NICS Ltd achieves lowest TCO and highest 5–10 year ROI with StarWind Software's Virtual SAN

StarWind Virtual SAN® Helped to Maximize Value, Bringing in the Lowest Total Cost of Ownership and Highest ROI over a 5 to 10 Years Period

NICS Ltd., an IT consulting firm, was engaged by a growing multi‑site architecture and interior design company that had accumulated a large, hard‑to‑manage server estate. The client needed a centrally managed platform with storage and compute that could scale independently, and initial proposals from IBM and LenovoEMC exceeded $70,000 per site.

NICS deployed StarWind Virtual SAN on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 with Hyper‑V, running on two Lenovo RD630 hosts and Supermicro SuperStorage, supporting about 10 VMs and 12TB of redundant storage (scalable to 20TB). The solution has run reliably for 18 months with better‑than‑expected performance, delivering a significantly lower TCO and the highest projected ROI over a 5–10 year period while avoiding costly traditional SAN hardware.

NICS Ltd

Shayne Zaba

Director