Case Study: Financial Services and Insurance Leader achieves multimillion‑dollar data‑center savings and compliant, high‑performance hybrid cloud with NetApp Private Storage for Cloud

Financial Services and Insurance Leader - Customer Case Study

A large financial services firm with 15,000 employees and 9 million customers needed to move quickly to an “all‑in” cloud model but faced strict regulatory, data‑sovereignty and disaster‑recovery requirements. Many applications were not cloud‑ready, the company held petabytes of sensitive customer data on NetApp, and regulators required precise control and tertiary copies of data, so a phased migration that preserved compliance and performance was essential.

The company deployed a hybrid approach using NetApp Private Storage for Cloud hosted at Equinix and Global Switch, connecting NetApp FAS6290 storage to AWS EC2, with SnapMirror replication and external key management. This preserved control of sensitive data, avoided app rearchitecture, met recovery and sovereignty requirements, enabled multicloud portability, and allowed the firm to vacate a data center—saving millions—while delivering reliable, high‑performance disaster recovery and a proven path for moving production workloads to the cloud.