Case Study: Multinational Bank cuts costs and reclaims 2.7PB while speeding provisioning with NetApp OnCommand Insight and Workflow Automation

Multinational Bank Drives Down Costs with NetApp OnCommand Management Software

A top multinational UK bank operating across commercial, private, retail, investment banking and wealth management lacked visibility into how business units consumed infrastructure, making it hard to control costs and improve IT responsiveness across a heterogeneous 120PB+ environment. IT was charged with reducing management costs while delivering the right performance and capacity for every workload.

The bank deployed NetApp OnCommand Insight as a single global data warehouse integrated with its bespoke CMDB, plus OnCommand Workflow Automation and on‑site NetApp services to build reports and workflows. The solution revealed usage by service/region/datacenter, uncovered 2.7PB of orphan capacity and removable software licenses, shortened share provisioning by over 40 minutes (freeing an FTE for innovation), enabled accurate chargeback, streamlined decommissioning, and improved compliance and risk visibility.