Cloud Volumes Edge Cache

Consolidate, collaborate, cut costs, and reduce risk.

Modernize distributed storage on your journey into a secure, scalable public cloud infrastructure while maintaining optimal end user performance.

Customer Success Story

Cloud Volumes Edge Cache

Cloud Volumes Edge Cache

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Modernize distributed storage with Cloud Volumes Edge Cache

Today, one of the biggest challenges that organizations face is the excessive growth of unstructured data and the inability to centrally manage those datasets efficiently. Because 80% of unstructured data resides across more than one location, organizations struggle to manage these “islands” of data. The result is an increasingly complex environment, which is costly for the IT team to manage. And this complexity makes companies worry about remaining compliant, efficiently performing audits, risks of data loss, and potential security breaches.

Why Cloud Volumes Edge Cache?

NetApp® Cloud Volumes Edge Cache gives global users fast and secure access to centralized data by caching "active datasets" in distributed offices globally. Anywhere, anytime, no matter where your workforce is located, your data is protected and available to your users with industry-leading performance.

IT challenges

Business challenges

Managing “Islands of Data” in branch offices

Poor performance accessing data

Excessive data growth and duplication of data

Unable to collaborate efficiently

Inefficient usage of server and storage resources

Data integrity issues

Local storage, data replication and backups cause poor recovery times

Conflicting file versions, resulting in data loss

Complex IT Management

Poor business productivity

The solution: Cloud Volumes Edge Cache

Consolidate and centralize your data into the public cloud and leverage the scalability and performance from enterprise-grade storage solutions.
Create a single set of data for users globally and leverage intelligent file caching to improve global data access, collaboration and performance.
Rely on a self-sustaining, self-managing cache, and eliminate full data copies and backups. Utilize local file caching for active data and cut storage costs.
Transparent access from branch locations through a global namespace with real time central file locking.

Key use cases

Distributed Storage Consolidation

Leverage the cloud for a single enterprise data footprint for all users, simplify data management and improve business continuity.

Global Data Access & Collaboration

Enable a “Single Set of Data” for users globally to leverage virtual teams and increase their productivity for team and collaborative workflows.

Features

Leverage the Cloud

Deploy Cloud Volumes Edge Cache to keep even the most demanding data sets safe and scalable in NetApp’s Cloud Volumes ONTAP® platform.
End-to-end security

Seamless integration with Microsoft Active Directory and data access control through ACLs and NTFS permissions along with data encryption at-rest and in-flight.
Cost savings

Shrink distributed storage footprint and slash operations overhead even as the business scales, while protecting current investments in applications, systems and workflows.
Operational simplicity

Zero touch management through a self-sustaining, self-managing cache at the edge and a consolidated and centralized storage environment at the core in the public cloud.
Transparent integration

By accessing data and collaborating in real-time, users will feel as if they’re all working in the same office, anywhere in the world, regardless of bandwidth, latency, and distance.
Data protection

Don’t rely on distributed backup processes…which don’t always work. Reduce your risk with unlimited, always-on backup of your data at the source.
High performance

Accelerated data access as active data is cached locally in your office together with efficient data transfer over WAN through compression / streaming and delta differencing.

The feedback from the locations has been fantastic, with users commenting that they feel like they are working on the LAN, which is exactly what we were aiming for.

Robert Bird Group

NetApp Cloud Volumes Edge Cache was cost-effective and makes it feel like information is on your local file server, even when it is not.

GEI Consultants

We looked at other similar solutions, but the pricing and the comparable performance was not competitive to NetApp Cloud Volumes Edge Cache.

Metromont

Bringing the data together using NetApp Cloud Volumes Edge Cache software allows users to work simultaneously on large project files from any location. And in a disaster recovery situation, you get the business back up and running very, very quickly.

Capita

Our CEO has a vision to grow nationally and internationally over the next few years. We say 'bring it on.' We can now access files anywhere without performance worry.

COPE Health Solutions

NetApp Cloud Volumes Edge Cache has been great. New technologies like VR scanning are becoming more of a possibility every day, so we will eventually integrate those technologies into our system, and NetApp Cloud Volumes Edge Cache will help us keep the data under control.

Alex Coljee (Head of IT), Facto GEO

We want to use NetApp Cloud Volumes Edge Cache software in the UK to give those isolated offices faster file access and cut down on circuit and fibre costs outside of London. With NetApp Cloud Volumes Edge Cache software we can optimise the WAN and application usage to continue to cut costs while still providing that local file experience to users.

Jake Fraser (Head of IT), Four Communications

We were moving from a daily replication to a single consolidated footprint, so there were some growing pains. The NetApp engineers were fantastic and very responsive for implementation and post-implementation support.