Saying that NetApp Snapshot technology has "improved [my] organization" is a bit of a stretch, but it - and the other technologies based upon it - is a critical component in our BCDR strategy.

We had a customer who had a corrupt virtual machine, and we needed to restore the data. So, we used the Snapshot data to create a clone of the volume, which allowed us to recreate the virtual machine and provide it to the customer.

We provide file services directly from NetApp Storage. NetApp Storage has the SMB service installed around the world. We leverage snapshots at the volume level for the SIP file shares. We connect the NetApp Storage with cloud volume objects sold in Azure. Our purpose for the Snapshot is to create a point-in-time Snapshot of storage and then replicate all the data into the cloud for our DR backup purposes.

Our architecture is designed using NetApp as a file server for DR backup. We use cloud volume objects as our hosts in Azure to move data from on-premises locations to the cloud. We leverage NetApp's Snapshot feature to capture the data.

We use primarily NetApp storage arrays for the entire file share infrastructure. Integration into our management infrastructure is done via monitoring, which SolarWinds provides. It integrates well with open-source setups like SNMP reporting or email alerting. Additionally, control-based access control integrates well within our infrastructure because NetApp supports integration with Active Directory. We use another product from NetApp called NetApp ActiveIQ for monitoring and troubleshooting the NetApp Storage, which is custom-made for NetApp.

Did you lose your VM? No worries, spin up a new VM and attach to data. Set a policy and tag it during storage provisioning. You never have to worry about maintaining millions of files stored across several thousands of virtual machines. 

Snapshot has improved our operations by allowing the opportunity to manipulate data sets without having to worry about making major mistakes with the data.

Compared to the traditional way we did backups, with Snapshot it takes us less time. It has improved my organization by saving us time. 

More reliable and accessible data protection than backups alone.