Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP customers

S&P Global Market Intelligence improves data resilience and reduces cost with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

S&P Global Market Intelligence is a leading provider of actionable intelligence on the global financial markets and the companies and industries that make up those markets.

Challenge: S&P Global Market Intelligence needed to improve availability and accelerate agility for hundreds of SQL Server databases. The organization was looking for a high-availability storage solution that spans across multiple AWS Regions to facilitate cost-effective disaster recovery (DR).

Solution: S&P Global Market Intelligence deployed a multi-Region SQL Server architecture in Amazon EC2 using fully managed Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP file systems. Their architecture includes hundreds of SQL Server databases running on Failover Cluster Instances (FCI) that utilize iSCSI block-based storage in FSx for NetApp ONTAP. Support for SnapMirror cross-region replication (CRR) eliminated the need to implement database-level replication. FSx for NetApp ONTAP’s built-in deduplication and compression features also helped S&P Global Market Intelligence do more with less, to reduce their overall storage cost.

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adidas Reduces SAP HANA Database Recovery Time by 59% with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Founded in 1949 in Germany, adidas is a global athletic apparel and footwear corporation with more than $22 billion in yearly revenue.

Challenge: Seeking to transform its global operations, adidas is consolidating and automating its core SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, transitioning from disparate legacy systems. The company faces the critical task of ensuring robust and reliable backup and recovery for its integral SAP HANA databases. The key challenge is to centralize and simplify its SAP S/4HANA ERP systems while meeting stringent data backup and storage recovery requirements. This is essential to minimize downtime and protect against data loss in their vast, high-transaction environment

Solution: This project to consolidate adidas's legacy SAP systems will be one of the largest SAP S/4HANA installations in the world. The AWS infrastructure to power this extensive environment includes Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to run the large-scale, data-intensive HANA databases, and Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, which provides fully managed, resilient, high performance storage. The integration of FSx for ONTAP into Adidas SAP HANA environment has significantly enhanced their database backup and recovery processes, reducing data recovery times by 59%, which enables Adidas to greatly exceed its service-level agreement mandate. Ultimately, adidas aims to operate an SAP S/4HANA on AWS environment exceeding 40 TB, a goal now within reach.

 

Arm Scales Performance for Chip Design Using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Founded in 1990, Arm Limited is a semiconductor and software design company based in the United Kingdom. It designs energy-efficient CPU and GPU processors and system-on-a-chip infrastructure and software

Challenge: The chip design process at Arm is intensive, relying on electronic-design-automation (EDA) workloads involve billions of files with extensive metadata operations. The ‘spiky’ nature of these workloads—characterized by fluctuating compute demands—leads to periods of underutilization or insufficient compute capacity. This variability impacted the efficiency of its on-premises EDA operations, Arm needed to scale its compute and storage resources to accelerate the design process.

Solution: Arm has NetApp ONTAP storage systems in its on-premises data center, and looked to integrate Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP into a hybrid cloud setup to address the ‘spiky’ compute demands. FSx for ONTAP enables Arm to leverage a hybrid cloud infrastructure configured as an in-cloud cache for Arm’s on-premises ONTAP filers using NetApp FlexCache volumes. Arm can now burst EDA workloads to AWS to improve scalability and processing speeds—seeing a reduction in job completion times by 50%. In addition, Arm is experiencing increased throughput and lower latency by adopting FSx for ONTAP scale-out file systems—delivering up to 12x pairs of file servers—to access tens of petabytes of data and handle over 10 million jobs.

 

Modernizing IT Infrastructure: Phillips 66's Cloud Journey with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Phillips 66 is a diversified energy manufacturing and logistics company that processes, transports, stores, and markets fuels and products globally

Challenge: Phillips 66 embraced a cloud-first strategy with the objective of modernizing its IT environment. This meant the company needed to migrate its backup, disaster recovery, production, and virtualization workloads to the cloud and maintain their business continuity without disruption.

Solution: Phillips 66 implemented Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a fully managed shared storage service, for its cloud transformation. This non-disruptive migration process uses SnapMirror for a seamless transition, replicating their on-premises experience in AWS. The company modernizes its backup and disaster recovery by migrating over 300 TB of on-premises data, exits a data center by transitioning production applications, and shifts data stores for VMware Cloud on AWS deployments. This transformation provides Phillips 66 with increased agility and business resilience while reducing storage costs by 80 percent.

 

Infor enhances data reliability with FSx for ONTAP to achieve 99.99% availability for mission-critical healthcare data and services

Infor is a global leader in business cloud software products for companies in industry specific markets.

Challenge: Infor Cloverleaf, a leading healthcare integration and data interoperability solution, required a high-performing, multi-availability zone (AZ) file system that could integrate with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and support an embedded Raima Database (DB) and SQLite DB. Existing cloud storage options lacked the capabilities to scale while maintaining high availability and fault tolerance.  

Solution: Infor avoided performance degradation and service disruptions by migrating to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a decision that fundamentally transformed its cloud storage architecture. The Infor Cloverleaf team leveraged the high-performance capabilities of FSx for ONTAP to enable process of over 40 million healthcare messages per day. FSx for ONTAP reduced the operational overhead of storage management allowing Infor to minimize customer impact for persistent workloads and achieve 99.99% availability The move to FSx for ONTAP simplified disaster recovery planning, where AWS Backup provided improved point-in-time recovery with multi-region recovery options—all without causing interruptions to the core Cloverleaf product, ensuring a seamless experience for their healthcare clients.

Accelerating Success: AdvisorEngine's Journey to 7x Database Performance Improvement with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

AdvisorEngine is a wealth management company that provides an intuitive technology for financial
advisors to service their clients and grow their business.

Challenge: AdvisorEngine needed to handle new customer growth as well as the migration of existing
customers from their desktop product to their cloud-based service. The company already experienced
performance challenges with their Microsoft SQL Servers. Without altering their architecture, they
would have been forced to scale up to the next available service level, doubling their deployment costs.

Solution: AdvisorEngine trialed new solutions to meet its requirements for continuous availability,
compliance, and data protection. In a Proof of Concept trial, Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP proved to be
a superior solution. Integrating FSx for ONTAP into the final SQL server re-architecture resulted in a 50%
cost reduction and a 6x TPM improvement. It also provided additional features that allow for quick,
ephemeral clones of the environment for staging, troubleshooting, and offline backups with full validity
checks.

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Cost-aware Cloud Bursting: Peraton Transitions to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Peraton is a next-generation national security and IT company providing systems engineering, intelligence analysis, and cybersecurity, delivering trusted national security solutions to government agencies.

Challenge: The company needed to migrate and back up data while having the ability to burst file-based applications from on-premises to AWS without modifying front-end applications or changing current data management practices.

Solution: Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP enables Peraton to deploy and run their workloads with high availability, reliability, and security. Peraton selected Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP for its high performance, ease of use operational efficiencies, and familiar capabilities used with their on-premises ONTAP. FSx for ONTAP allows Peraton to efficiently manage and burst their file-based applications into the cloud while supporting cross-domain disaster recovery plans with its durable and performant storage. Using FSx for ONTAP, Peraton enables significant cost savings compared to their previous on-premises environment.

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Resilience and Performance at Scale: Amazon FSx for Netapp ONTAP Empowers Vaultedge's Document AI Platform across 100+ Kubernetes Nodes

Vaultedge is a document AI platform built on large language model (LLM) architecture for the banking and insurance sectors, automating processes like loan processing, underwriting, and insurance claims. penetrating

Challenge: Vaultedge operates large Kubernetes clusters comprising hundreds of servers, dynamically scaled according to load. With storage demands nearing a petabyte and growing by 30-40% annually, they required a shared file system capable of ensuring high availability and sustaining the requisite throughput for their Kubernetes workloads. As a startup, Vaultedge sought to optimize infrastructure operations, enabling them to allocate their existing team's resources towards core business objectives.

Solution: Vaultedge selected Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP to address their need for a high-availability shared file system. This solution offered storage efficiency features such as deduplication, compression, data tiering, and built-in backup/replication, aligning with their goal of reducing storage costs and optimizing infrastructure operations. Implementing this solution improved scalability, efficiency, and operational agility, resulting in a reduction of storage expenses by 10-15%. Additionally, Vaultedge leveraged Amazon CloudWatch and NetApp Cloud Insights for comprehensive application performance monitoring and efficient troubleshooting.

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Arcesium reduces database refresh time with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Arcesium designs advanced data, operations, and analytics capabilities for the financial services industry and used by some of the world’s most sophisticated asset managers and financial services organizations

Challenge: Existing database refreshes proved to be slow, Arcesium needed to reduce time and costs associated with refreshing mission-critical, multi-terabyte databases and maintain a consistent point-in-time view across multiple databases. A low-friction migration to AWS with limited application and database downtime was imperative.

Solution: Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP FlexClones enable Arcesium to create near-instantaneous, space-efficient database copies for system refresh purposes. As a managed service, FSx for ONTAP was easy to migrate to, simple to operationalize, and reduced operational complexities. Additionally, the built-in compression, compaction, and deduplication storage efficiencies significantly reduce their overall storage costs.

 

Pearson improves agility and performance of their enterprise resource planning application with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

Pearson helps people throughout the world to achieve their potential through learning by providing high-quality digital content and learning experiences, as well as assessments and qualifications that help people build their skills and grow with the world around them.

Challenge: Pearson experienced application recovery time (RTO) challenges with their previous storage solution for their mission-critical financial and HR workloads.

Solution: FSx for NetApp ONTAP removed the heavy lift of migrating their application and storage to AWS, allowing Pearson to focus on improving their customer experience. With enterprise storage features such as NetApp Snapshots and FlexClones, Pearson quickly moved millions of files from their previous solution to Amazon FSx without needing to modify their applications or requiring their staff to learn new skillsets.

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Universitas XXI simplifies DR strategy for existing file share solution with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Universitas XXI is a leader in management software solution for universities, offering a wide range of services including implementation, consultancy and support.

Challenge: Universitas XXI was in need of a solution to replicate their business critical data from their production NetApp ONTAP infrastructure on-premises to AWS for disaster recovery purposes. They found that traditional file-based replication solutions did not meet the RPO needed by the business.

Solution: By implementing Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Universitas XXI now leverages ONTAP’s native SnapMirror feature to easily and efficiently replicate data from on-premises at the block-level. Universitas XXI has achieved an RPO of minutes, while reducing the operational burden of administering a DR environment and the cost and complexity of a 3rd party solution for managing data replication.

AdvancedMD reduces storage cost by 70% and lowered operational overhead by 80% with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

AdvancedMD is a cloud suite of medical office software: practice management, electronic health records, patient engagement, and business analytics. Clients include nearly 52,000 practitioners across 13,000 practices and 700 medical billing companies.

Challenge: AdvancedMD was using self-managed storage for their business-critical application workloads. The associated operational burden was costly, time consuming, and negatively impacted their clients.

Solution: With FSx for ONTAP, AdvancedMD reduced the operational burden of managing their storage infrastructure, including scaling, maintenance, and software upgrades while increasing the overall reliability of their application workloads. They were also able to significantly reduce cost with the built-in efficiency features, including tiering, deduplication, and compression.

MediaSite reduces TCO with move to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Mediasite is an automated and scalable video platform, trusted by thousands of leading schools, healthcare, and enterprise organizations.

Challenge: The on-premises hardware was out of capacity and Sonic Foundry required storage expansion that could deliver high-availability for always-on global content delivery. Additionally, they needed to provide a consistent streaming experience to their Mediasite customers.

Solution: Sonic Foundry increased their agility and reduced complexity with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. SnapMirror provided a simple migration to AWS for Sonic Foundry. Post migration they were able to improve availability with Multi-AZ file systems, easily scale to additional regions, and provide lower latencies for their customers, improving the streaming experience. Sonic Foundry took advantage of automated data tiering with FSX for ONTAP to optimize storage costs and reduce TCO.

Blackboard reduces operational burden with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

Blackboard works to help create experiences that are more informed and personalized to support learning, teaching, and leading more effectively through combined product and solution offerings that span the full learning journey.

Challenge: Blackboard’s DevOps team needed to reduce time spent on data management to help get ahead.

Solution: Using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Blackboard no longer manages infrastructure – the fully managed service does the work of hardware, provisioning, patching, and backups – allowing them to focus on applications, end users, and positively impact the business.

Amazon Annapurna Labs accelerates chip design with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP

Amazon Annapurna Labs is at the .forefront of chip design innovation, and is responsible for designing and building all custom AWS chips and accelerators that power the AWS Cloud.

Challenge: Amazon Annapurna Labs had self-managed storage for their business-critical electronic design automation (EDA) workloads. The associated operational burden was time consuming, and downtime from file system maintenance or unplanned service disruptions negatively impacted critical workloads.

Solution: To reduce their operational burden, Annapurna Labs switched to fully-managed FSx for ONTAP to maintain infrastructure, scale capacity, provision resources, and perform software upgrades.  Annapurna was able to increase the overall availability of business-critical EDA workloads and accelerate the design of their latest and most advanced chips, purpose-built for machine learning.

NetApp improves engineering productivity with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

NetApp is a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company that empowers organizations to lead with data in the age of accelerated digital transformation. The company provides systems, software, and cloud services that enable them to run their applications optimally from data center to the cloud.

Challenge: NetApp was looking to reduce the operational overhead associated with deploying and managing on-premises storage infrastructure.

Solution: With Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, NetApp IT eliminates the need to deploy and maintain additional ONTAP clusters on premises globally, and provides the agility, scale, performance, and cost optimization required to meet the needs of NetApp’s growing business.

eHealth New South Wales (NSW) seamlessly migrated their enterprise image repository to Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

eHealth NSW partners with health agencies and industry to provide a digital, integrated health system for patients, clinicians, and the NSW community.

Challenge: eHealth NSW was looking to migrate their enterprise image repository (EIR) to AWS to reduce operational complexity and increase the pace of innovation for their real-time, life-critical clinical applications.

Solution: Using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, eHealth NSW achieved the availability and scalability their EIR requires, while reducing operational overhead. FSx for ONTAP provided familiar features such as Snapshots and SnapMirror, allowing NSW eHealth to leverage their existing skillset and migrate to AWS without needing to make any application or data management changes.

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Ayesa reduces storage costs by 50% and increases productivity by 30% using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

Ayesa, a global technology and engineering services provider, works to build a more efficient world.

Challenge: Ayesa needed a cloud file storage solution that would enable their global teams to collaborate and share project data securely, with built-in optimization for performance and cost.

Solution: By using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP's capacity pool tier, Ayesa was able to reduce their costs and simplify storage management by automatically tiering their infrequently-accessed data to low-cost, elastic storage. With NetApp Global File Cache, Ayesa also provided secure, low-latency access to cloud file storage for their teams across 17 sites around the world.

Kerry Logistics improves operational productivity with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

Kerry Logistics offers a broad range of supply chain solutions from integrated logistics, international freight forwarding, industrial project logistics, to cross-broader e-commerce, last-mile fulfillment, and infrastructure investment.

Challenge: Kerry Logistics experienced on-premises storage scalability and availability constraints. They needed agile, flexible, and scalable storage infrastructure for their business users in Hong Kong and Asia Pacific in alignment with their business expansion goals.

Solution: By using fully managed Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, Kerry Logistics improved availability and scalability with Multi-AZ file systems while reducing operational overhead. FSx for ONTAP provided features such as Snapshots and NetApp Cloud Insights, allowing business users in Kerry Logistics to share and collaborate the information whenever and wherever their users need it without any application or data management changes.

Ávoris improves DevOps agility with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

Ávoris Corporación Empresarial (ACE) offers a broad range of travel and tourism services, including holiday bookings and air travel. The company operates 1,500 travel agencies, serves 5.65 million travelers a year, and has nearly 6,000 employees.

Challenge: Avoris' storage environment could no longer support the availability and data resiliency demands of their business and limited their ability to scale DevOps workflows.

Solution: Avoris deployed Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP along with NetApp’s Astra Trident for container orchestration, providing their development team with a scalable, secure DevOps environment. Scheduled and on-demand snapshots enabled Avoris to instantly protect and clone datasets regardless of size.

Veolia scales faster and reduces total cost of ownership with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP.

Veolia's mission is help customers address their environmental and sustainability challenges in energy, water, and waste. They blend skills in operations, engineering and technology to offer a range of environmental solutions to meet the challenges of cities, campuses, businesses and industries.

Challenge: Veolia was looking to accelerate their migration journey to the cloud for their mission-critical, data driven applications while optimizing for scalability, performance, and cost.

Solution: Fully managed FSx for NetApp ONTAP enabled Veolia to reduce operational complexity and improve performance without having to modify their applications. With built-in tiering, data is automatically stored in the right tier to optimize their cloud infrastructure costs.

Inventum Boosts SAP HANA Efficiency with Transition to FSx for ONTAP

Inventum Technologies, founded in 1908, is a Dutch renewable energy semiconductor manufacturing firm with a focus on heat pumps, boilers, and balance ventilation. The company is recognized as a pioneer in ventilation heat pumps.

Challenge: Facing growth and the construction of a new production facility, Inventum needed its SAP S/4HANA systems to reliably support this expansion. Operational inefficiencies and rising costs for their hosted cloud-based solution prompted the company to seek a more effective system. Inventum faced inefficiencies with only two SAP HANA environments—one for production and another combining development and testing. This longstanding setup hindered operations, prompting the company to overhaul of their SAP landscape.

Solution: Inventum consulted with myBrand Conclusion, their managed service provider, to replace their cloud SAP environment with AWS, utilizing Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP—a certified storage system for SAP HANA. This shift to SAP S/4HANA on AWS enhanced their operational performance, reliability, and agility, enabling three distinct environments: production, development, and quality assurance. The production file system is running in one filesystem and is SnapMirrored to a secondary file system in hours, not days, for disaster recovery together with the development and quality assurance systems. Inventum gains cost and storage efficiencies through data tiering, compression, and deduplication. Faster data recovery is achieved using NetApp's SnapCenter backup service for data protection, cloning, and replication. This transition has not only reduced costs but is also optimized for their SAP HANA storage needs, supporting seamless high availability, backup, and disaster recovery.