Case Study: CDL achieves blistering performance, scalable growth, and robust disaster recovery with NetApp AFF8080 All‑Flash FAS

NetApp AFF8000 systems provides platform for business expansion with raw performance & stability

CDL is a UK software company serving retail insurance, with around 600 staff and a market-leading portfolio used by the country’s largest insurance retailers. After several major customer wins the company faced storage capacity and performance bottlenecks—threatening its large Oracle databases and a 3,000‑VM infrastructure—so it asked partner Cetus Solutions to find a platform that would support current workloads and future growth.

Cetus recommended the NetApp AFF8080 All‑Flash FAS, delivering high I/O performance, built‑in efficiency (compression, dedupe, thin provisioning), and enterprise features like VMware integration and SnapMirror. The deployment provided huge headroom (only ~10% utilised initially), faster read/write times, automated database cloning that cut helpdesk investigation time from about a week to a day, and robust failover and disaster recovery—creating a stable foundation for CDL’s continued expansion.

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Dan Calderbank

Senior IT Engineer