CASE STUDY
A winning strategy for better
data control, disaster recovery
and security
Kostenarov commented: “NetApp provides
us with solid foundations to guarantee data
protection and integration with the main
data protection software solutions. As we
are approaching Software-as-a-Service
(SaaS), NetApp will be able to guarantee
that this data is retained and protected.
We are widely using applications like
Office 365 and Salesforce.com, and in the
future, NetApp will support us with cloud
data services to ensure data mobility and
availability to our users.”
Positioned to thrive in a hybrid,
multi-cloud world
To meet its storage demands, Ducati chose
NetApp AFF to help consolidate a wide
range of workloads and more than 200
applications. This consolidation makes all of
the data assets available in a single, unified
system that offers optimal productivity,
minimal footprint and improved access
to all the enterprise-grade functionalities
to meet the company’s needs. NetApp’s
assistance with Ducati’s data centre
modernisation led to new opportunities
outside of the engineering and design
departments that Ducati might never have
imagined otherwise.
Overall, Ducati has worked with the
NetApp team on four projects to date:
data centre consolidation, a highperformance
computing cluster renewal, the
implementation of a disaster recovery and
data protection strategy, and the research
for a new IT infrastructure model to support
all of the company’s branches.
Rendina said: “For all these projects with
NetApp, we achieved great results in three
primary areas: footprint reduction, data
awareness and speed. Our high-performance
cluster reduced footprint by 20 times
and our entire data centre had an overall
reduction of seven times. With compaction,
deduplication and compression, we could
achieve a data optimisation of 27:1 for some
workloads and of at least 10:1 overall.”
Understanding the transformative
value of the data fabric
According to Kostenarov: “Once we
consolidated our data centre, we
understood that data could be used by a
wider group of users. This led us to perform
an assessment of our data capital to enable
engineering, marketing and sales. We’re
able to leverage the potential of data more
broadly. We could not do this before we
reshaped our data centre.”
As NetApp and Ducati continue to develop
their partnership, they will work together to
discover new ways to leverage Ducati’s Data
Fabric to drive and inspire innovation across
every aspect of Ducati’s pace-setting global
organisation, including the potential for
Machine Learning and AI opportunities.
Kostenarov voiced his aspirations: “NetApp is
one of the few companies we know that can
help virtually every part of our business. Data
is only the beginning.
“NetApp has showed us the power of
its comprehensive suite of solutions,
from all-flash storage systems to HCI to
all opportunities offered by cloud data
services. NetApp has helped us capitalise
on today’s business opportunities while we
innovate for tomorrow.” •
NetApp HCI also enabled Ducati to leverage
the enterprise-class features of NetApp
ONTAP software, helping to improve the
sophistication of the company’s data
management strategy, including versioning,
security and NetApp Snapshot copies. It
gained the ability to integrate NetApp
HCI with Active Directory to simplify and
automate the management of data access.
With improved application of data comes a
deeper understanding of the importance of
a powerful data security strategy, including
an effective disaster recovery solution.
DUCATI HAS BEEN ABLE TO BRING
MANY OF THE GAME-CHANGING
INNOVATIONS FROM THE TRACK TO
THE CONSUMER MARKET, OFFERING
LOYAL FANS A NEXT-LEVEL
RIDING EXPERIENCE.
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