Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP customers

"We want to be cutting edge. We understand that we are hitting records on AWS in instance sizes, volume size, processing speed, memory, and CPUs. We see the sheer speed of the infrastructure, allowing us to restart and restore the system in an impressive amount of time."

"Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides us the ideal high-availability, cost-effective shared storage solution for our SQL Server FCI DR strategy. The SnapMirror functionality helped reduce our RPO and we only pay for the storage we use now – high availability SQL Server and DR made easy!"

"By migrating to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Infor Cloverleaf has elevated its healthcare data interoperability services to new heights. We've achieved a remarkable 99.99% availability, crucial for our patient-critical healthcare workflows. The seamless integration with Amazon EKS and the capability to efficiently manage embedded Raima and SQLite databases have not only streamlined our operations but also significantly reduced system failure points. With FSx for ONTAP, we've successfully eliminated the complexities of managing persistent workloads, allowing us to focus more on delivering unparalleled value to our healthcare clients."

"The business value that FSx for ONTAP brings to us really has to do with the cost savings."

"As a fully managed service, FSx for ONTAP helped us to get up and running quickly with storage efficiencies of 53% and we had a 46% reduction in storage costs. We saw an 80% reduction in refresh costs and achieved a five-fold improvement in the speed of database snapshots, ensuring easy retries to handle any unexpected failures. An added benefit is that we can now leverage our idle DR (Disaster Recovery) environments and effectively utilize that infrastructure for productive purposes."

"In the year that FSx for ONTAP has been in production, it has never gone down, and high availability and disaster recovery synchronization have never failed. FSx for ONTAP has played a crucial role in AdvisorEngine's success by ensuring the continuous operation of their mission critical applications."

"The transition to AWS, managed by myBrand Conclusion, not only addressed our immediate operational challenges but also set us up for future growth, stated Jan van Lit, IT Coordinator at Inventum. “This SAP HANA environment with FSx for ONTAP is more cost-efficient than our previous options. The ability to swiftly set up exact copies with SnapMirror of our SAP environments has drastically improved our team's efficiency. With FSx for ONTAP, we are ready for the future with our SAP environment on AWS."

"The combination of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and NetApp Astra Trident enables us to efficiently deploy and manage enterprise containers for hundreds of simultaneous DevOps projects, enabling Ávoris to easily and quickly adapt our business to changing customer demands."

"We needed a dynamic system that would help us review and control compute costs."

"Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a game changer for us, we intend to keep pushing its boundaries. This hybrid approach has accelerated our chip-design process, improving our speed to market and enabling us to handle massive data and file demands seamlessly."

"As a startup in the document AI space, managing large datasets is very, very crucial for us. FSx for ONTAP solves the problem of data scalability, persistence, and availability to ensure that we have the data that we need when we need it and where we need it."

"We use FSx for NetApp ONTAP to store 1.3PB of medical imaging data for a statewide enterprise image repository. The solution provides the reliability and scalability of an AWS fully managed service with the flexibility offered by NetApp ONTAP, reducing the operational management overhead for eHealth, and enabling resources to focus on delivering greater value to the state healthcare system."

"Before FSx for ONTAP, we spent a lot of time managing volume sizes to deliver the performance we needed. Migrating to Amazon FSx was easy, and requires almost none of our time. We simply set up the volumes, and AWS monitors and manages the backend. The one thing we didn't initially account for was the effectiveness of the compression, deduplication, and storage tiering features - we ended up saving a lot more money than expected!"

"We migrated to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to improve storage scalability and availability, and reduce storage costs for our EDA workloads. Our silicon development infrastructure now supports double the storage capacity per volume while maintaining the workload performance. With FSx for ONTAP, we observed 100% availability of our storage, while reducing our storage costs by 35%."

Anaplan specializes in delivering cutting-edge solutions for strategic planning and long-range forecasting. Anaplan helps organizations worldwide with solutions that span business functions, including finance, sales, supply chain, and operations.

Challenge: Over a six-month span, Anaplan faced multiple critical outages due to issues with its previous vendor's storage systems. The disruption, which affected not only Anaplan's largest customer but thousands of other customers, hampered access to data for decision-making and operational tasks. The series of outages threatened Anaplan's reputation and customer satisfaction. Adding to the business challenges, Anaplan's existing storage systems had reached End of Service Life (EOSL), necessitating an urgent system refresh. The lack of a robust public cloud offering from its previous vendor hindered seamless integration between on-premises storage and public cloud environments, a crucial component in serving a diverse and global customer base.

Solution: For scaling on a global platform, Anaplan relies on Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. This advanced storage service provides Anaplan with the performance, cost efficiency, and scalability needed to grow its international operations.

"Migrating from on-premises to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP has reduced our operational burden, and enables us to scale our content delivery capabilities quickly to meet the needs of our valued customers at the lowest possible price."

"Anthology has relied on NetApp for decades for its best-in-class enterprise features and capabilities. Key for running our business is the performance, durability, continuous feature innovation, and cost-effectiveness that our applications require. Since our transition to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, we reduced our operational burden by 90%."

"In as little as 30 minutes, we can deploy Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems as our business needs dictate. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a perfect marriage of the best-of-breed features and capabilities of NetApp ONTAP, with the convenience, scalability, and integration of an AWS service."

"Our innovative File2Cloud architecture combines the capabilities and features of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP and NetApp Global File Cache to provide our engineers and consultants to securely share and collaborate as needed. The built-in, automated tiering feature of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP enables us to optimize our deployment for both performance and cost."

"FSx for NetApp enables our team to securely access and share information effectively. As a fully managed service, FSx for NetApp ONTAP removed the operational overhead of our physical IT infrastructure freeing us to focus on our application data and drive more value for our customers."

"Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP perfectly supports our cloud strategy and accelerated our migration to AWS without having to rebuild or redesign our applications. Using infrastructure-as -code and automated tiering capabilities, we found the service to be more scalable and cost effective than on-premises solutions."

Hyland Cloud has been able to scale its storage to meet growing demand. Over a three-year span, the volume increased by a factor of 7, from 2PB to 14PB.

For more than 30 years, Hyland has been a leader in enterprise content management, helping companies capture, process and manage high volumes of diverse content and improving operational decisions and workflows. In fact, many of the Fortune 100 use Hyland solutions to fundamentally redefine how they operate and engage with those they serve.

Challenge: Because Hyland is responsible for so much of its customers' content, compliance and security concerns are paramount. "We have a somewhat unique file set - millions and millions of tiny files," said Casey Shenberger, cloud platform architect at Hyland. "So replication of those for disaster recovery was always a challenge."

Solution: The company has NetApp AFF and FAS investments in its data centers. NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP® software and the NetApp StorageGRID® object-based storage solution are used both on premises and with Hyland Cloud's primary public cloud, AWS, including Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

"Always having the same operating system, ONTAP, means that we're able to do more because we don't need different training and expertise. It's all the same no matter what the workload is."

Casey Shenberger, cloud platform architect, Hyland                                                                                                            

"When Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP became available, it was a complete game changer for us. We love how Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is fully managed. We don’t have to worry about managing all the underlying infrastructure."

"Since Peraton uses on-premises NetApp, FSxN is the ideal solution to migrate, backup, or burst our file-based applications from on-premises to AWS without any modifications to front-end applications or change how we manage the data today."

"Rapid recovery measures for virus infections had been an issue. On-premises backups only cover the previous day, but Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP provides seven days of backups, so we can promptly restore and continue work if a virus strikes."

"FSx for NetApp ONTAP improved the agility of our mission-critical ERP application by enabling us to refresh our data 10x faster. We also increased financial and HR job performance by 3x and reduced our application recovery time and recovery point (RTO/RPO) objectives from hours to minutes. As a fully managed service, FSx for NetApp ONTAP removed the operational overhead of our physical IT infrastructure freeing us to focus more on our application data and drive more value for our customers."

"Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP enables us to easily replicate data to our DR environment in AWS, achieving the RPO/RTO required by our business without unnecessary operational complexity of administering a DR environment."