subject: NetApp Storage Is critical to Suncorp's Business Proposition [print this page] NetApp Storage Is critical to Suncorp's Business Proposition
The Suncorp Group banks on NetApp to foster a culture of innovation,scale at the speed of thought, and create a future with infinitebusiness possibilities at the storage front. After a string of morethan 50 business acquisitions and a major merger, Suncorp became a16,000-employee company with five different divisions, countlessunique brands, and an IT infrastructure that was complex and provideda barrier to growth.
Realizing the only way to move forward was to dramatically improve theway it did business and unlock the untapped human capital that laywithin, Suncorp made a strategic bet on storage to ignite itstransformation.
After a string of morethan 50 business acquisitions and a major merger, Suncorp became a16,000-employee company with five different divisions, countlessunique brands, and an IT infrastructure that was complex and provideda barrier to growth."We have a strong belief that the companies wepartner with are companies that we aspire to be like. From the start,NetApp has been built on innovation and has always believed in pushingthe boundaries of what is possible with a single goal in mind: customersuccess. That is where we wanted to be."
"We looked to NetApp not only as a technology partner to help usachieve greater business flexibility and efficiency, but to help usmaterially change the way we do work," said Jeff Smith, CEO, SuncorpBusiness Services. "We have a strong belief that the companies wepartner with are companies that we aspire to be like. From the start,NetApp has been built on innovation and has always believed in pushingthe boundaries of what is possible with a single goal in mind: customersuccess. That is where we wanted to be."
Working side by side with NetApp, Suncorp transformed its business bymigrating 80% of its entire IT environment onto a sharedinfrastructure, creating a large virtualized private cloud. Coupledwith new agile methodologies and processes, this shared infrastructureprovided the foundation that has delivered significant effects on theefficiency, flexibility, velocity and success of Suncorp's businesswhile eliciting an entire culture of innovation that is changing thepace of business.
