Case Study: Surface Mount Technology (SMT) achieves guaranteed performance, 40X storage boost and lower TCO with NetApp HCI

SMT meets growing business demands with NetApp HCI Enterprise-Scale Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Surface Mount Technology Limited (SMT), a Hong Kong–based electronics manufacturing services provider, needed to modernize its aging three‑tier infrastructure to support new applications, higher SLAs, and business expansion. Its legacy hardware and software were near end-of-support and couldn’t meet growing compute and virtualization demands, forcing SMT to seek an IT transformation that would boost performance, simplify management, and control costs.

SMT deployed NetApp HCI’s node‑based, shared‑nothing hyperconverged infrastructure to gain pay‑as‑you‑grow scalability, guaranteed QoS, and independent scaling of compute and storage. The move delivered significant performance improvements, cut backup time by 35%, sped deployments and management via VMware vCenter, and reduced TCO—enabling faster time‑to‑market, greater agility, and more focus on innovation.

Surface Mount Technology (SMT)

Theresa Wong

Senior Manager, Analytics, Communication and Technology