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Business Case Study: Assessing Storage Efficiency within NetApp’s Data Centers
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Description:
This case study looks at ways NetApp IT was able to put into practices what the company has been saying to its customers for some time: That the use of NetApp storage offers such efficiency that it can save companies significantly more money and management time than the use of an alternate storage system.

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Facing many of the same challenges of other companies (exponential application growth and strained IT budgets), NetApp storage efficiency best practices described in this document were still able to produce the following results:

  • NetApp’s storage consolidation efforts led to nearly $60,000 in yearly cost savings on electricity for storage, a 75% reduction in storage footprint and an 80% reduction in storage power and cooling needs
  • NetApp’s self-service storage practices allowed development refreshes to occur in hours – versus days – without the involvement of a storage administrator. They also empowered users to perform their own file restores in minutes.
  • NetApp’s overall management efficiencies led to the ability to do more without having to significantly grow the core storage infrastructure. This included the ability to manage many times more application on the same core storage infrastructure, do more co-development and application integrations per year, and use significantly fewer storage administrators per terabyte.

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