Case Study: IBERIABANK achieves rapid, scalable growth and fast disaster recovery with NetApp FlexPod

IBERIABANK Relies on FlexPod from NetApp and Cisco to Manage Rapid Growth

IBERIABANK, the largest bank headquartered in Louisiana, grew rapidly from $5 billion in assets in 2011 to $27 billion in 2017—much of it through acquisitions—which strained its legacy IT. The bank needed a flexible, scalable infrastructure to consolidate multiple storage and compute platforms, quickly convert acquired data, and meet strict regulatory disaster‑recovery requirements.

IBERIABANK implemented two FlexPod solutions from NetApp and Cisco (with VMware and partner Sigma Solutions) to enable fast replication, failover, and consolidation. The deployment supported a 12× increase in data while shrinking the physical datacenter by two‑thirds, storing 7.5 PB of virtual data on 1.5 PB of disk through dedupe/compression, backing up 800 VMs in under 15 minutes, moving a datacenter in about three hours, and saving the bank hundreds of thousands of dollars.

IBERIABANK

Kevin Plaisance

Vice President and Data Center Infrastructure Manager