Case Study: The Newtron Group achieves 4x fewer servers and $200,000 five-year hardware savings with StarWind Software's Virtual SAN (VSAN)

The Newtron Group reduces the number of servers by four times and saves about $200,000 on hardware over the five-year period with StarWind Virtual SAN (VSAN)

The Newtron Group, an electrical and instrumentation contractor in Louisiana, faced rising costs and complexity running a cluster of seven Gateway compute nodes with Hitachi SAN on Windows Server 2003 and Hyper‑V. The company wanted to cut the number of servers and gain active‑active high availability with virtual shared storage, but competing options were either too expensive or required a minimum of two physical nodes.

By deploying StarWind Virtual SAN, Newtron preserved a separated compute-and-storage architecture while scaling resources independently and achieving active‑active HA through synchronous mirroring. The solution required only one physical node to install, delivered rock‑solid stability and strong vendor support, reduced the server count fourfold, and yielded about $200,000 in hardware savings over five years while lowering maintenance costs and increasing maintenance windows.

The Newtron Group

Bob Kennedy

Company Representative