Case Study: Fortune 100 Insurance Company achieves sub-1ms virtual desktop performance and scalable, cost-saving VDI with NetApp all-flash FAS

Fortune 100 Insurance Company Delivers Enhanced Virtual Desktop Performance with NetApp All-Flash Array

This Fortune 100 insurance company, with about 3,000 employees (including developers in India) using virtual desktops and thin clients for Microsoft Office and other business-critical apps, needed to improve user experience for a growing VDI estate while retaining the data protection, integration, and storage-efficiency features of its NetApp FAS systems and scaling storage without downtime.

The company deployed NetApp all‑flash FAS8060 with clustered Data ONTAP, automated Flash Pool tiering at a DR site, and SnapMirror replication, plus deduplication. The result: production desktop latency under 1 ms (often ~200 µs), consistent performance for all 3,000 VDI users even in failover, up to 85% storage savings, nondisruptive scaling, the ability to move other I/O‑sensitive workloads to flash, and lower disaster‑recovery costs.