StarWind Software and Marlin Equipment Finance joined efforts to break down the CAPEX barrier that small and midsized businesses (SMB) and remote office, branch office (ROBO) companies often encounter on their way to virtualization.  Customers in the United States can start using StarWind HyperConverged Appliance (HCA) from the day one with a zero-down payment plan.

StarWind HCA is a turnkey, 100 percent software-defined hyperconverged platform designed for organizations looking to minimize their application downtime but are limited on information technology team resources or budgets. It requires zero configuration, migration and integration efforts since everything is done by StarWind engineers at no extra cost, officials said.

It offers true High Availability with just a single onsite node, officials said. With StarWind HCA, customers spend zero time on fixing broken systems since StarWind ProActive Support predicts failures and reacts to them before they happen. It also delivers constant uptime thanks to synchronous failover clustering between on-premises and public cloud with StarWind Hybrid Cloud.

Thanks to a convenient, hassle-free financing process provided by Marlin, customers can acquire StarWind HCA with low monthly payments and no money down since the whole price resides in OPEX. Customers can plan their IT infrastructure budget simply and conveniently due to flexible payment plans and a pre-calculated price-list. Moreover, payments can be tied to revenue movements, so budget balancing becomes easy.