Case Study: Sheridan College achieves expanded video surveillance and storage efficiency with NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP

NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP Drives Storage Efficiencies Enabling Sheridan College to Increase Video Surveillance Capabilities for Student Safety and Security

Sheridan College, a leading Ontario post‑secondary institution serving about 20,000 full‑time students across four campuses, faced end‑of‑life, siloed storage that could not cost‑effectively support a heavily virtualized environment of 500+ VMs and growing VDI and application workloads. After a formal RFP, the college sought a flexible, scalable storage platform that would eliminate rip‑and‑replace refreshes and meet tight deployment timelines.

NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP deployed as a FlexPod architecture delivered that platform—using FlexClone, Snapshot and OnCommand for instant replication, efficient backups and single‑pane management—allowing rapid dev/QA provisioning, seamless growth with no downtime and simplified operations. Improved storage compression for video freed capital to buy additional surveillance cameras, boosting campus security, and the solution was operational in under eight weeks.

Sheridan College

James Duncan

Director of Information and Communications Technology