NetApp & VMware: Customer Stories
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The NetApp and VMware partnership is the only partnership where a single storage system addresses all of the key VMware defined use cases.
Following are just a few of the many customer success stories made possible by the NetApp and VMware partnership. Click on the image to learn more about the customer story.
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Be The Match: vSphere & NetApp All-Flash
Customer Challenge: Accelerate performance, mobility and recoverability of bone marrow care facilities and research applications around the world – 1PB of databases/files.
Solution: ONTAP all-flash primary storage plus backup to unified storage. SnapCenter to automate DBA policies on provisioning, copy, refresh and backup of applications.
Results: Accelerated donor/patient match performance and accelerated DevOps research sprints. Self-managed DBA operations and meet <15-minute recovery window.
Customer Quotes
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“About 10 years ago we chose NetApp as our partner to help rebuild our infrastructure. And we’re now able to cure almost twice as many people per year.” – Mike McCullough, CIO at Be The Match
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“We don’t have to relearn a technology. It’s the same interface, it’s the same or even more value-add capabilities in a cloud. So the benefit of sticking with NetApp is clear.” - Josh Thorstad, Data Center Services supervisor at Be The Match
Read the case study for the solution at Be The Match.
APJ Country National Banking System: The Country’s Largest Private Cloud
Customer Challenge: National go-green initiative (no paper currency) + regulate currency + support contactless payments at large scale (~40 PB capacity & 1,000+ applications)
Solution: Modernize existing infrastructure with ONTAP all-flash + SnapCenter/SnapMirror supporting VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
Results: 180 million unified payment interface (UPI) transactions per day (6M IOPs & 45 GB/s throughput). SRM + SnapMirror to replicate VMs & data. SnapCenter + Commvault for VM backup and recovery.
Move To National Cryptocurrency
The VMware Cloud Foundation and NetApp ONTAP All-Flash architecture will support the country’s shift to a new national cryptocurrency as part of the next phases of green, contactless and regulated banking.
North American Aerospace & Defense: Modern & Cloud-Connected Kubernetes Applications Infrastructure
Customer Challenge: Existing NetApp and VMware customer looking to expand to cloud for modern applications development. Cloud-native storage lacked enterprise functionality.
Solution: NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP (CVO), FSx ONTAP & SnapMirror for consistent enterprise hybrid cloud at AWS supporting both VMware Tanzu and RedHat OpenShift.
Results: Consistent enterprise Kubernetes and file services storage for GovCloud leveraging the same ONTAP enterprise storage feature-set.
Flexible Options, One Consistent Platform
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Support both VMware Tanzu and RedHat Kubernetes Workloads
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Cloud Volumes ONTAP for customer-managed
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FSx ONTAP for fully managed AWS native service
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Apps development & enterprise file services
Orange Business Services: A Leading Network & Digital Integrator
Customer Challenge: Enhance reporting capabilities and cut downtime to improve its cloud and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offerings running on ONTAP & vSphere
Solution: VMware Aria (vRealize) and the True Visibility Management Pack for NetApp ONTAP to provide greater discovery and reporting of storage diagnostics.
Results: Consistent enterprise Kubernetes and file services storage for GovCloud leveraging the same ONTAP enterprise storage feature-set.
Customer Quotes
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“Thanks to the visibility provided by the vRealize True Visibility Management Pack for NetApp, we can now discover the symptoms of downtime between 70 to 80 percent faster.” - Richard Esteve, Technical Leader
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“To effectively manage their IT environments, our customers require an understanding of what is happening across the environment. VMware’s out-of-the-box dashboards provide exactly that, which is greatly improving our overall customer experience. - Richart Esteve, Technical Leader