Case Study: Kärcher achieves cloud agility and 20% lower storage costs with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

Kärcher innovates in the cloud to clean the world

Kärcher, a German manufacturer of cleaning products, sought to modernize its IT infrastructure as part of its cloud-first strategy. The company needed to migrate critical file services for its 14,000 users away from its hosted on-premises system. Kärcher required a solution that offered greater flexibility, scalability, and cost transparency to better support its fast-paced innovation and global operations. They partnered with vendor NetApp to find a suitable cloud-native solution.

NetApp implemented its Cloud Volumes ONTAP solution on AWS, enabling a seamless live migration of 190TB of data. The solution utilized NetApp FabricPool for intelligent data tiering, automatically moving infrequently accessed data to lower-cost S3 storage. This resulted in a 20% reduction in storage costs, allowing Kärcher to extend its backup retention from 30 days to 6 months. The migration was completed within three months, providing high availability, robust disaster recovery, and uninterrupted service for users, solidifying NetApp's role in Kärcher's digital transformation.

Kärcher

Leonhard Kerscher

Senior Director IT & Digital Transformation