Case Study: Vancouver Community College improves storage efficiency and disaster recovery with Scalar Decisions and NetApp

Vancouver Community College Addresses Escalating Data Demands with New Storage Infrastructure

Vancouver Community College (VCC) needed to replace an aging storage system that had reached end of life and could no longer support future data growth or integrate cleanly with its VMware environment. VCC turned to Scalar Decisions for help sizing a new storage architecture that would meet expansion, backup, and disaster recovery needs without disrupting day-to-day operations.

Scalar Decisions implemented a modern NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP unified storage platform, along with SnapVault and SnapMirror for automated replication and Snapshot for fast recovery. The new environment improved storage efficiency by 30%, reduced application upgrade and maintenance time by 20–30%, and eliminated many manual backup and mirroring processes while giving VCC stronger reliability, redundancy, and disaster recovery capabilities.

Vancouver Community College

Peter Gregorowicz

Network Service Manager