Chesapeake Bay Foundation rescues the bay with NetApp's affordable and efficient solution for mission-enabling IT

Learn how Chesapeake Bay Foundation optimized their data center infrastructure by creating a technology foundation that meets the challenges of the coming years. They were able to unify their server and storage architecture and implement best practices, rearchitect VMware® environment to gain greater virtualization efficiency; as well as upgrade and consolidate disparate storage environments to streamline management. The benefits:

• Consolidated and optimized the VMware vCenter ™ management platform, enhancing efficiency, flexibility, and management granularity
• Accelerated VM deployments up to 70%
• Delivered simplicity and cost efficiency with a single, unified storage environment
• Reduced administrative burden and improved staff productivity
• Improved speed, reliability, and data protection by centralizing backup and replication
• Reduced energy consumption by 50%
• Reduced backup from 48 to 11 hours
• Achieved significant performance and utilization gains by migrating from iSCSI to NFS and using thin provisioning
• Achieved 45% storage space savings with deduplication