Case Study: Trinity Mirror achieves reliable, cost-saving hybrid‑cloud disaster recovery and 50% storage reduction with NetApp ONTAP Cloud

Trinity Mirror - Customer Case Study

Trinity Mirror, the U.K.’s largest news publisher with more than 150 print and 80 online titles that reach about 38.6 million people monthly, struggled to support 24/7 publishing as its data footprint exploded—picture desks now ingest up to 120,000 images a day. With a secondary disaster‑recovery lease ending and strict 60‑minute recovery objectives, the company needed a more reliable, scalable, and cost‑effective DR approach to avoid costly infrastructure refresh cycles and downtime.

By deploying NetApp ONTAP Cloud on AWS in a hybrid‑cloud “pilot‑light” model, Trinity Mirror built a reliable DR platform that meets its RTO/RPO targets (recovering almost instantly with roughly 10 minutes of data loss in tests), allows biannual DR testing, and applies storage efficiencies (thin provisioning, dedupe, compression) to cut AWS storage by about 50%. The solution reduced costs, enabled cheaper S3 archiving for images, freed funds for editorial investment, and positioned the company to consider a full cloud migration.

Trinity Mirror

Peter Raettig

Head of Technical Operations