NetApp delivers data management solutions that help organizations use information to its full potential. The company’s globally distributed corporate IT environment includes four datacenters with
116.2PB of storage, production footprints in the public cloud, and more than 6,002 servers—82% of
which are virtualized—supporting 417 enterprise applications owned by IT, 729 corporate applications
in total.
To meet a strategic directive to make the enterprise more lean and agile, NetApp’s corporate IT
team continuously seeks to improve the efficiency of IT services and application delivery—for
example, by adopting a DevOps software delivery approach and a hybrid cloud approach to
infrastructure services.
However, this team faced significant challenges, such as the high level of time and effort
required to manage infrastructure and delays in application delivery due to a lack of dynamic
storage provisioning.
