Lipman Insurance Administrators guarantees uninterrupted operations and enhanced customer service by orchestrating a highly available and fiscally optimized IT landscape StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN)

August 07, 2023

Christopher Vlach

Systems Manager. Brings extensive experience in business analysis, IT management, and disaster recovery, with a solid background in insurance administration and operations management.

CHALLENGE

Before StarWind Virtual SAN (vSAN) deployment, LIA had been grappling with a mixed Windows/Unix environment, relying on dedicated servers and clusters for various business applications. The infrastructure included numerous physical servers, leading to exorbitant costs for hardware, maintenance, support contracts, space, cooling, and power. Additionally, their disaster recovery plan was inefficient and costly, lacking the desired redundancy and recovery times. The architecture proved to be financially burdensome for a small business.

With StarWind, every upgrade has been done in place seamlessly, and provides new featuresand simpler administration… exactly what our business needs! StarWind far exceeds our expectations and requirements.

Christopher Vlach, Systems Manager

SOLUTION

The implementation of StarWind vSAN had transformative effects on Lipman Insurance Administrators’ IT infrastructure. The new setup, delivered exceptional performance, scalability, and availability. The company achieved substantial savings by significantly reducing hardware requirements, resulting in lower costs for space, power, cooling, and support contracts. The transition also led to a simplified disaster recovery plan with improved recovery times.

With StarWind, the company has the flexibility to proactively adopt new technologies and enrich its data infrastructure without major investments or disruptive implementations.