Managing IT infrastructure can be a challenge for small to medium-sized businesses, especially when it comes to Hyperconverged solutions, but StarWind has developed a data centre building block that can help IT managers to manage and scale it, saving time and money.
As small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) grow, they face increasing challenges in managing their IT infrastructure. Limited budgets, lack of human resources and constant workload growth can all make it difficult to ensure high performance, continuous availability and data protection of the company’s apps and services.
To address IT challenges, StarWind has developed StarWind HCI Appliance (HCA) – a modern data centre building block designed specifically for SMBs. StarWind converges computer, storage, networking, virtualisation software and management into a single hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform. HCA replaces complicated and expensive legacy infrastructure, simplifying management and driving costs down.
StarWind HCA offers a complete infrastructure stack starting from a minimalistic two server footprint. It is based on Dell hardware, providing a reliable and scalable foundation for business-critical applications. By consolidating hardware and software components, StarWind HCA eliminates the need for managing and supporting multi-layered traditional 3-tier infrastructure.
One of the secrets of StarWind’s HCA is Dell’s OEM hardware. Dell OEM use customer insight to plan their next generation of products to optimise innovation. They offer OEM-specific products that can’t be found in the Dell standard catalogue and focus on customers’ solutions and deliver trusted expert advice that helps manage the details to find the right fit.
StarWind delivers high availability and fault tolerance capabilities, ensuring that business-critical applications are always up and running. Combining that with cross-location replication and StarWind’s Backup Appliance, there is the most solid foundation for applications.
This insight driven approach that is shared between StarWind and Dell is what allows Exertis to offer unique value to partners. Every HCA will be built bespoke based on the customer’s requirements.
Growing market
Why is this such a great opportunity? The hyperconverged infrastructure market is growing and expected to climb from $4.74 billion in 2020 to $25.97 billion by 2028. The collaboration between Dell and StarWind puts partners in a great position to capitalise with Exertis offering solutions that offer great flexibility combined with performance, while still being able to provide great margin opportunities to partners.
The solution is easy to deploy, manage, and scale, freeing up IT staff to focus on innovation. In addition, the StarWind HCA is designed to be affordable, making it an ideal solution for SMBs with limited budgets. The solution provides a low total cost of ownership, with no hidden costs or licensing fees. The core philosophy around the StarWind product line is delivering enterprise-grade feature sets and performance, while retaining that SMB price point. From an innovation perspective, StarWind holds the torch as the world record holder for the most IOPS in a hyperconverged system. And bigger and better things are yet to come.
That is why StarWind is transitioning to NVMe-over Fabric. Not only does it allow extremely low latency and high-performance, but you get to utilise all the resources you paid for, for your actual applications.
StarWind’s determination to continually evolve their product combined with 20 years of experience in the industry allow them to bring products to the market that make IT infrastructure what it should be: a rock-solid foundation for business applications that doesn’t create any headache for the IT team.
In a time where data is widely claimed to be the new oil, StarWind will ensure its safety and constant availability. It’s easy to innovate using Dell’s leading OEM platforms. With fully customisable solutions and high profitability, OEM is an opportunity not to miss.
To learn more about Exertis’ offerings within the OEM space, visit the Dell OEM hub or email the team at define@exertisenterprise.com to speak with the solutions team.