Case Study: Digital Risk LLC achieves high availability and $250,000 in savings with StorMagic SvSAN

Risk management services provider Digital Risk LLC gains high availability for databases by choosing StorMagic SvSAN

Digital Risk LLC, a US-based risk management services provider for mortgage and lending analytics, needed 24/7 high availability and strong performance for Microsoft SQL Server databases while virtualizing servers with VMware vSphere. Enterprise SAN hardware was outside the budget and presented a potential single point of failure, so Digital Risk selected StorMagic and its SvSAN software (deployed on Cisco UCS servers) to deliver a cost‑effective shared‑storage solution.

StorMagic’s SvSAN used the internal drives of two Cisco UCS servers to create a mirrored, shared‑storage architecture that supports VMware HA and vMotion, enabling clustered SQL databases without a traditional SAN. The two‑server design avoided an extra SAN and saved around $250,000, delivered seamless failover in testing, was deployed in about six weeks, centralized management via VMware vCenter, and provided performance good enough for Digital Risk LLC to virtualize additional applications—supporting daily SQL access for roughly 90% of employees and improving productivity.

Digital Risk LLC

David Mahgerefteh

Director of IT