Massive Converged Infrastructure Powers One of World’s Largest Private Clouds

With NetApp as our partner, our next-generation secure data center will offer a truly state-of-the-art environment, enabling Symantec IT to deliver services more quickly, efficiently and less expensively,” said Vince Spina, vice president, Global Network Infrastructure and Data Center Services at Symantec. The Symantec lab cloud (formerly known as Granite Labs) is a massively scalable platform, and one of the world’s largest software-defined data centers. It enables Symantec support engineers to quickly replicate customer production environments and has improved workflows for thousands of the company’s employees. It has also saved Symantec tens of millions of dollars and sparked a company-wide IT transformation as an internal “lighthouse project” for large-scale private cloud deployments.Standardizing on the right storage platform for our private lab cloud was critical to building highly available and scalable cloud services. We sought infrastructure partners we could turn to for advice, and we selected NetApp and Cisco for their technology, guidance and design support in the form of a FlexPod converged infrastructure platform.