SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
Feb. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Maxta
Inc., a leading provider of hyperconvergence software, announced
today Lewis & Knopf, a full-service accounting and consulting
firm with multiple offices in Michigan, reduced its IT infrastructure costs
by 80 percent using Maxta software and commodity servers. The new
hyperconverged environment allows Lewis & Knopf to choose from
most brands of server hardware, have a choice in hypervisors, scale
storage and compute resources independently, and does not require
the purchase of a new software license when refreshing servers.
Lewis & Knopf specializes in helping its entrepreneurial
clients – retailers, auto dealerships, manufacturing and
distribution enterprises, construction companies, providers of
professional services, and more – maintain healthy financial
positions. In order to do so, the firm must maintain a healthy IT
infrastructure of its own.
When the time came to upgrade its 10-year-old traditional
SAN/server setup, Lewis & Knopf information technology advisor
James Johnson heeded the company's
vision of sound planning and wise choices in investigating new
solutions. After deciding not to replace his aging SAN with a new
model, Johnson investigated hyperconvergence as a way to reduce the
administrative load of managing separate compute, storage and
storage networking resources. He began by looking at hyperconverged
appliance-based products, but felt that, like a SAN, it limited
future scaling and locked him into costs to update and
maintain.
"The SAN and the hyperconverged appliances both were, to me,
pretty pricey and I did not want to be locked into specific
hardware," Johnson said. "I looked at quite a few hyperconverged
solutions, many of which promoted themselves as 'Hyperconvergence
Software.' The hardware they would run on was pretty strict and I
just didn't want to be locked down. I said, 'No, that's not
the hardware I want.' I had to be really specific. So we
ended up going with Maxta and I was able to install it on the
hardware that I wanted, not the hardware they offered."
While all hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions are
designed to help simplify IT management by converging separate
compute, storage and storage networking tiers into a single system,
as well as administering virtual machines instead of storage, many
of these solutions lock customers into specific hardware or
hypervisors. Maxta hyperconvergence software eliminates the lock-in
of server hardware or hypervisors. Unlike appliance-based
hyperconverged solutions, Maxta enables customers to upgrade
storage capacity by adding solid state drives or disk drives to
existing servers instead of requiring the customer to add complete
nodes. Maxta does not require customers to repurchase
hyperconverged software licenses when refreshing the server
hardware.
"For an accounting and consulting firm that prides itself on
making wise choices to maintain a healthy financial position, it
makes perfect sense that Lewis & Knopf sought out a solution
that overcomes the high price tag associated with IT infrastructure
upgrades," said Yoram Novick, Maxta
founder and chief executive. "And unlike appliance-based
hyperconverged solutions that make you repurchase the software
license when you refresh hardware or implement additional
appliances when adding storage capacity, Maxta software allows
organizations to eliminate the unnecessary refresh and upgrade tax
to provide true cost savings while providing ultimate freedom of
choice."
About Maxta
Maxta is the only hyperconvergence provider that gives IT the
freedom to choose both servers and hypervisors. Maxta's unique
software approach to hyperconvergence enables IT to scale storage
independent of compute, run mixed workloads on the same cluster,
and eliminate the software refresh tax as there is no need to
repurchase the hyperconvergence software license when refreshing
server hardware. Maxta is available as software-only or
pre-configured on most brands of server hardware. For more
information, visit us at www.maxta.com or follow us on LinkedIn and
Twitter.
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