BlueXP is now NetApp Console
Monitor and run hybrid cloud data services
[music] At Anthology, I'm our vice president of software engineering. Blackboard Learn is our flagship [music] learning management software, delivering to millions of users every single day in over [music] 80 countries around the world. In March 2020, the world dramatically changed. Our virtual classroom tool grew by over 45 times [music] in the matter of 3 weeks. We were very well positioned to be able to take on that surge of usage because we were able to leverage the scale of AWS's public cloud. Our Blackboard Learn SAS customers, they demand ultimate uptime, but they also are expecting performance and stability 24/7. You know, learning never stops. What NetUP's brought to the table is that it allows us to do some tasks that were traditionally taking days now in hours. So we can get up a new uh net app storage within 90 minutes. The journey to the cloud was pivotal to our success during this time period. When I look [music] back at our ability to deliver systems in our private infrastructure, that was a process that would take weeks or months. In the cloud, we're able to use [music] orchestration and automation leveraging the NetApp on APIs to be able to deliver on storage in a matter of hours. And that was the difference between [music] success in continued education and catastrophic failure. >> What we discovered uh through the pandemic is that we had the opportunity to not only help folks to continue to support education at [music] their institutions but to actually lean into educational quality leveraging digital tools. We pulled our clients on their satisfaction and are very proud that during the pandemic we saw a year-over-year increase in satisfaction. The reality of the pandemic [music] presented the opportunity to rethink how education could be delivered in a way that actually better supports learners [music] of all types. We're removing barriers to education and that's what our mission really is about.
Blackboard, now an Anthology Company, met a potential business catastrophe with ease and reaches new innovation milestones on AWS thanks to NetApp services and support.