Case Study: Polaris Alpha achieves 46:1 data efficiency and cuts provisioning from 6 weeks to 15 minutes with NetApp FlexPod

Better Agility for DevOps Helps Polaris Alpha Accelerate Time to Market

Polaris Alpha, a provider of custom software for government agencies including the DoD and DHS, needed a more agile, multimodal IT foundation to support mission‑critical operations and a growing developer community. Rapid transitions to cloud‑native, containerized workloads and 10% monthly storage growth were increasing latency and slowing developer productivity, while budget constraints ruled out separate storage tiers for production and development.

Working with Flair Data Systems, Polaris Alpha deployed FlexPod Datacenter with NetApp All‑Flash FAS (AFF) integrated into its VMware environment, delivering a unified high‑performance platform for DevOps. The move cut provisioning from six weeks to 15 minutes, achieved 46:1 data efficiency, delivered sub‑millisecond latency and supported 400 developers with 100+ concurrent builds, shrinking data center footprint and freeing significant staff time to accelerate time to market.

Polaris Alpha

David Coker

Senior VP of Information Systems