TechnologyOne Selects NetApp to Improve Profitability and Efficiency of Its SaaS Cloud Offering
October 12 2016 - 8:00AM
NetApp® (Nasdaq:NTAP) today announced that TechnologyOne (TechOne)
has implemented NetApp® Private Storage (NPS) on a FlexPod® data
centre platform with NetApp MetroCluster™ technology to help reduce
costs and increase performance for its global customers.
TechOne is Australia's largest enterprise software company, with
offices in six countries. The company’s software powers its diverse
range of customers, which includes more than 1,000 leading
corporations, government departments, financial institutions,
universities, and statutory authorities around the world.
After the floods in Queensland in 2011 damaged TechOne’s data
centre, the Brisbane- headquartered company decided to go all in
with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to reduce risk. AWS did just that,
allowing TechOne to have up to 99.9% resiliency. However, TechOne
needed a storage solution that also provided the same levels of
reliability and flexibility.
Because many of TechOne’s customers have seasonal workloads, for
example, universities that have students registering for courses
during the year, TechOne needed a storage solution that could react
in real time. In addition, many of the company’s customers are
global, with their data accessed worldwide, so the company required
a highly efficient solution for stored data.
“Data has really strong gravity, and once it’s stored somewhere,
it’s hard to move around,” said Iain Rouse, group director of Cloud
at TechnologyOne. “With a global cloud and customers around the
world, we turned to NetApp to solve this problem, as its Data
Fabric approach enables our customers to interact with their data
seamlessly.”
TechOne also wanted to adopt a multicloud approach without
increasing costs or complexity, because its customers were
beginning to demand alternate cloud solutions.
For these reasons, TechOne worked with NetApp to develop the
TechnologyOne MetroPod, a combination of proven technologies
including NetApp Private Storage for Cloud, FlexPod, and
MetroCluster, hosted within Equinix’s data centre. ONTAP® Cloud
software and NetApp OnCommand® Insight enable TechOne’s multicloud
approach and efficiencies in the cloud. The solution is specific to
TechOne’s requirements, strategically designed and sized for
optimum efficiency and taking into consideration both capacity and
performance.
“We are able to take our current 99.999% ‘resiliency’ from AWS
to 99.999% of ‘availability’ using the MetroPod architecture,” said
Rouse. “We anticipate seeing significant savings over the next few
years as well as a significant reduction in our backup and recovery
times. Most importantly, TechOne is now able to manage, move,
protect, and share data whenever needed through a Data Fabric.”
“Hosted within Equinix, the MetroPod provides TechOne customers
with optimum flexibility, redundancy, and scale as they explore
alternate cloud solutions. By leveraging Equinix’s interconnection
platform with direct access to multiple clouds, customers have
access to advanced hybrid architecture that can drive significant
business outcomes,” said Jeremy Deutsch, managing Director of
Equinix Australia.
"With this implementation, NetApp has enabled TechOne to meet
the complex demands of their global clients with this highly
efficient and affordable solution,” said Steve Manley, vice
president, NetApp ANZ. “This solution is specifically designed for
TechOne’s customers who require choice and control in a dynamic
environment.”
Additional benefits TechOne has experienced include up to an 85%
reduction of production data with NetApp deduplication and NetApp
FlexClone® technology and a tenfold performance improvement of
AWS’s fastest storage tier with NPS for AWS. TechOne’s customers
have also gained the ability to prove sovereignty of data to
Australian regulators. These benefits also make TechOne
future-ready by reducing the risk with NPS for Cloud, making the
company now able to support alternate cloud solutions.
To learn more about NetApp Private Storage, FlexPod, or
MetroCluster, visit the NetApp website.
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