Case Study: Synopsys, Inc. achieves faster innovation and 30% data‑center savings with NetApp AFF solution

Fueling Tech Innovation with Digital Transformation

Synopsys, a leader in electronic design automation, helps chip manufacturers run millions of parallel simulations and iterative tests that demand massive compute and storage (200,000+ cores and 50+ PB). The company needed low-latency, high-throughput access to data to accelerate customers’ time to market while reducing data-center power, space, and operating costs.

Synopsys migrated to a NetApp all‑flash AFF NFS solution using ONTAP features (compression, deduplication) and FlexGroup volumes to scale to multiple petabytes and millions of files. The rollout improved throughput and testing speed, freed data-center capacity, and delivered roughly 30% savings in power and rack space — while positioning Synopsys for future cloud adoption.

Synopsys, Inc.

Sriram Sitaraman

Group Director of Information Technology