Case Study: Andes Technology achieves 30% data reduction and nonstop operations with NetApp HCI

Andes adopts NetApp HCI Seamless integration with main Hyperscale clouds Accelerates the innovations in hybrid cloud world

Andes Technology, a Taiwan‑based embedded processor IP company founded in 2005 (with over 3.5 billion SoC shipments by 2018 and strong growth in its RISC‑V V5 family), faced growing IT complexity from years of accumulated hardware. During a 2018 office relocation the company saw frequent management headaches, single‑point‑of‑failure risks and inefficient backup/recovery, so it sought to consolidate distributed services and improve reliability with a hyper‑converged infrastructure.

Andes selected NetApp HCI with NetApp FAS2750 and FAS2620 (deployed with partner xCloudinfo), leveraging per‑VM IOPS QoS, separate compute/storage nodes, VMware non‑touch failover and rapid local support. The deployment delivered ~30% data reduction, freed 17 servers (saving NT$1.7M in new hardware), faster backups and recovery, better system visibility, and cloud‑ready replication for future hybrid‑cloud expansion.

Andes Technology

Frankwell Jyh-Ming Lin

President