SUNNYVALE, Calif. - April 17, 2012
- Organizations are under pressure to accelerate business
results and rely on IT to help them lower operating costs, drive
innovation, and outpace the competition. These organizations
continue to invest a significant amount of IT dollars on day-to-day
operations, hindering their ability to free up resources to
implement strategic initiatives to further business success. To
cope with these challenges, many organizations have turned to
storage efficiency technologies from NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) to
maximize their existing investments, reduce costs, and free up
resources to invest in projects to drive business growth.
NetApp customers are saving a combined total
of more than five exabytes of storage capacity[1] through the use of NetApp's leading
efficiency technologies. With these technologies, customers save on
average $25 billion in storage costs[2]. According to Gartner, Inc., organizations
today invest 63% of their IT budgets on projects to run their
business, 21% to grow their business and only 16% to transform
their business[3].
Customers rely on NetApp's game changing efficiency technologies to
overcome the challenges of managing explosive data growth and
maximize existing storage investments. The combined strengths of
NetApp's nine integrated efficiency technologies help customers
lower costs, do more with less, and improve their return on
investment.
The following customers worldwide are
maximizing NetApp® storage efficiency technologies to free up
resources for innovation as they implement cloud computing models,
virtual desktop integration (VDI), and strategic business
applications to provide higher service levels to their
organizations:
Iowa Workforce
Development
- The Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) decreased costs and
continued to support the communities they serve to run
public-facing virtual desktops across the state from a centralized
NetApp storage platform. This innovative approach to delivering
workforce services has enabled the IWD to provide services to a
greater number of communities even though budget cuts forced the
elimination of the majority of its physical offices.
- With a flexible and efficient NetApp storage infrastructure,
the agency is now able to deliver more services to Iowa state
residents and has seen the rate of services the agency provides
increase by an average of 40% per month. NetApp storage efficiency
technologies such as deduplication and thin provisioning have
helped reduced storage requirements by nearly 50%.
Tuscon Electric Power
- Tucson Electric Power Company (TEP) managed growing data
volumes resulting from the expansion of its geographical
information system with more high-resolution photographs, which
required large amounts of storage space. These GIS applications and
high-resolution images are used throughout the utility enterprise
for inspections, lightning-strike assessment, field force
management, outage visualization, and emergency management. In
addition, storage demands were being driven by roughly 60 new or
upgrade-application projects each year.
- Over the last six years, TEP's has saved the organization
approximately $7.3 million in hardware and labor costs due to
exceptional storage efficiencies from NetApp. These savings are now
invested into innovative new application projects such as a
renewable energy program and meter data management.
ExamWorks
- ExamWorks addressed new requirements stemming from accelerated
business growth and achieve greater efficiencies through more
streamlined, centralized storage management, and server and desktop
virtualization strategies.
- ExamWorks achieved $2 million in IT opex cost avoidance and
gained a centralized, efficient and flexible IT infrastructure that
easily accommodates growth.
- ExamWorks has reduced storage and IT staffing costs with NetApp
virtualization and efficiency technologies. The company has
decreased storage requirements by 300% with NetApp deduplication on
virtual desktop images.
Scheffknecht Transporte
- A global hauling and logistics provider, Scheffknecht renewed
the IT infrastructure for three sites and 50 office workplaces
focusing on accelerated data access, stability, and cost saving.
NetApp provided unified storage as a central shared data platform
for the virtualized environment, business and industry
solutions.
- Scheffknecht was able to reduce expenditure for operations,
decrease administration time by more than 80%, and save several
thousand Euros on maintenance. The new efficient and flexible
infrastructure released resources for optimizing business processes
such as electronic accounting or telematics for its truck fleet.
Instead of wasting time and money rectifying IT problems,
Scheffknecht is now able to generate uninterrupted sales.
Supporting Quote
- Chris Cummings, vice president, Products and Solutions
Marketing at NetApp
"Today, organizations spend a substantial amount of their budget
just keeping systems running," said Chris Cummings, vice president,
Products and Solutions Marketing at NetApp. "Efficiency in IT is
needed now more than ever as customers seek new approaches to
manage growing data volumes, reduce costs and improve business
responsiveness. Our success in helping customers achieve
significant savings with the NetApp portfolio of storage efficiency
technologies demonstrates our commitment to deliver powerful
innovations that help our customers succeed."
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[1] Data from My AutoSupportTM, a Web-based tool,
when enabled, offers a comprehensive view into the health,
performance, and storage efficiency of any NetApp storage
system.
[2] Dollar savings based
on NetApp MyAutoSupport data and annual cost per TB based on the
Gartner report: "IT Key Metrics Data 2012: Key Infrastructure
Measures: Storage Analysis: Current Year," Jamie K. Guevara, Linda
Hall, and Eric Stegman, December 15, 2011 report #G00226857
[3] "IT Metrics: IT
Spending and Staffing Report, 2012," by Kurt Potter, Michael Smith,
Jim McGittigan, Jamie K. Guevara, Linda Hall, Eric Stegman, January
16, 2012