ON Semiconductor Chose NetApp
To deploys all-flash solutions to support 125 sites and 68 data centers worldwide
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on July 24, 2017 at 2:21 pm
ON Semiconductor is driving energy efficient innovations in almost every industry, including automotive, electronics, computers, and healthcare.
As a result of a series of strategic acquisitions, ON Semiconductor has 125 manufacturing sites and 68 data centers around the world. For many years, every site was responsible for its own IT, but as the company grew it became increasingly difficult to maintain HA worldwide.
The company chose NetApp, Inc. to help it consolidate its footprint and simplify its SAN environment across all 125 global manufacturing sites. Several of these sites deploy NetApp all-flash FAS and hybrid arrays, which run ONTAP software, the data management solution. To support performance and availability for critical enterprise applications, ON Semiconductor added NetApp all-flash FAS arrays to its primary data center in Colorado.
NetApp professional services team members helped the company provide onsite support to its engineers. This included focus on storage infrastructure management and identifying ways to continue to drive consolidation over time.
“The Shield, our vision for long-term HA, protects our data as it moves seamlessly between our three primary data centers, 125 sites and 65 data centers around the world,” says Phil Colon, senior director of global infrastructure services, ON Semiconductor. “With NetApp, we were able to transform our vision to a reality and leverage a Data Fabric to enable connectivity and replication across all sites with failover for unplanned downtime.“
With its approach, ON Semiconductor’s application performance increased by an average of 50%, with speeds for individual applications increasing as much as 64%. The company was able to consolidate 84 racks of storage to just 24 in its primary data center. It saw costs fall by 30% due to a reduction of 40% in power consumption. It also reduced RTO by 26% (from 5 days to 3.5 days) and RPO by 50% (from 48 to 24 hours).
ON Semiconductor’s vision for Shield has progressed to deliver a DR approach, with NetApp SnapMirror replicating data across geographies to ensure minimal downtime and data loss in the event of a disaster.
ON Semiconductor has the infrastructure in place to scale its storage without impacting ongoing operations.
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