Case Study: Global Apparel Company achieves hybrid‑cloud readiness and cost‑efficient data management with NetApp Cloud ONTAP

Data Management Challenges Across a Hybrid IT Environment Solved with Cloud ONTAP for AWS

An American multinational apparel company repatriated poorly performing outsourced data centers and is regularly moving applications to AWS for greater agility. With its web services running in the cloud, the IT team needed a simple, consistent data-management model to support a hybrid environment and to move and manage data between on‑ and off‑premises locations.

The company deployed NetApp FAS with clustered Data ONTAP on‑premises and NetApp Cloud ONTAP for AWS, using SnapMirror for replication and OnCommand Insight for cross‑location management. The solution delivered a single data architecture across cloud and datacenter, simplified administration and data mobility, enabled cost‑efficient replication, reduced cloud storage footprint with deduplication and zero‑impact snapshots, and consolidated storage down to two products versus up to 11 with competing offerings.