Case Study: K3 Starcom achieves 33% VMware performance gain and significant cost savings with Zadara Storage

K3 Starcom Increases VMware Performance 33%, Reduces Costs

K3 Starcom, a UK provider of on‑premises and cloud solutions for retail, manufacturing and distribution, faced a routine three- to five‑year CapEx storage refresh and sought an OpEx alternative to support ERP, CRM, BI, e‑commerce and managed services. After evaluating enterprise vendors, K3 Starcom selected Zadara Storage’s enterprise storage-as-a-service (STaaS) to replace legacy EMC VNX and NetApp FAS arrays and to keep infrastructure on‑premises behind its firewall.

Zadara Storage deployed on‑premises STaaS with iSER endpoint connectivity, Multi‑Zone High‑Availability and advanced data protection (snapshots, clones, replication, encryption). The result was a measurable 33% increase in VMware IOPS, metropolitan failover resilience across data centers, and significant cost savings by moving from a CapEx refresh model to Zadara’s pay‑as‑you‑go OpEx consumption approach.

K3 Starco

Steve Donaghue

Director of Hosting Services