Case Study: K3 Starcom achieves 33% higher VMware IOPS and OpEx savings with Zadara Storage

Starcom - Customer Case Study

Starcom, the UK’s leading supplier of integrated business systems, faced a costly three- to five-year refresh cycle for legacy EMC VNX and NetApp FAS arrays and sought an on‑premises OpEx alternative that kept data behind their firewall. After evaluation, they selected Zadara Storage’s on‑premises enterprise storage-as-a-service (STaaS) to support ERP, CRM, BI, e‑commerce and managed hosting workloads.

Zadara Storage implemented its STaaS with iSER endpoint connectivity and Multi‑Zone High‑Availability, plus advanced data protection features like snapshots, replication and encryption. The deployment delivered a 33% increase in VMware IOPS, metropolitan failover between data centers, and a shift from CapEx to Zadara’s pay‑as‑you‑go OpEx model, improving performance, scalability and cost predictability.

Starcom

Steve Donaghue

Director of Hosting Services