Case Study: State Unemployment Agency achieves cost savings and cloud modernization with NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP

State Agency Cuts Costs, Moves to the Cloud, and Modernizes with NetApp

A state agency that administers unemployment benefits and reemployment services for tens of thousands of residents faced increasingly stringent record‑retention requirements—some records required seven years of retention while others needed permanent storage. To meet compliance without disrupting services, the agency needed a dynamic, scalable, and cost‑effective data retention and data‑center consolidation strategy.

The agency deployed NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP and backed up data to AWS, migrating roughly 58 TB across 85 volumes in weeks and freeing a rack‑and‑a‑half in its secondary data center. The move enabled nightly backups of multiple terabytes of changes, reduced on‑premises footprint, delivered immediate cost and time savings, and provided flexible, future‑proof cloud storage with enterprise features.