Case Study: U.S. East Coast city achieves rapid 80TB+ cloud migration with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

IT Provider Surges Ahead in a High-Speed Race to the Cloud

A central IT provider for a large U.S. East Coast city—responsible for an operating budget of several hundred million dollars, supporting more than 120 city agencies and over 1,000 employees—needed immediate additional storage but could not wait months for procurement or risk service outages. With massive daily data growth and zero tolerance for disruption, the team sought a fast, scalable alternative to building another data center.

The provider deployed NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP on AWS, using SnapMirror replication to move 80–100TB to the cloud within days. The migration freed significant on‑premises capacity, lowered total cost of ownership, required no additional staff training, and delivered hybrid flexibility to scale and move data without service interruption.