Learn how Intuit leverages NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP to reduce storage costs and improve its data management capabilities and users' experience. Justin Stottlemyer, director and distinguished engineer at Intuit, shares his experience on a design that leverages Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, AWS Transit Gateway, and Cloud Volumes ONTAP to provide multi-protocol storage services with multiple Availability Zones, high availability, and multi-regional disaster recovery built in to extend coverage to over 3,400 AWS accounts. This presentation is brought to you by AWS partner, NetApp.

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How Intuit Simplifies Storage on AWS
Jens Dickmeis
Cloud Solutions Architect
NetApp
D E M 1 3 - S
Justin Stottlemyer
Director, Storage and Systems Architect
Intuit

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Cloud Volumes ONTAP® and AWS
▪ A fully-fledged version of NetApp
ONTAP running natively on AWS
▪ Consumes native cloud storage
▪ Same ONTAP tools and processes
▪ Mature, proven technology
▪ Implemented with hundreds of
customers
▪ Consumed by the hour (pay-go) or
up front (BYOL)
SMBNFS iSCSI
Amazon EBS
Cloud Volumes
ONTAP
APP
OS
APP
OS
APP
OS
Amazon EC2

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Enable hybrid cloud with Cloud Volumes ONTAP software
• Software-designed storage in the cloud,
based on ONTAP software
• Pay-as-you-use flexible cost structure
• Support for SSD- and HDD-based storage
services
• High-availability (HA) option: NetApp Cloud
Volumes for AWS
• New ways to use the cloud
• Enhance cloud storage with NAS, Snapshot
copies, clones, etc.
• Minimize the cloud footprint by using
advanced data-reduction technologies
• Enable easy data movement between on-
premises and cloud locations
• Enable DevOps and cloud disaster recovery

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NetApp Cloud Manager
• Intuitive user interface
• Deploy Cloud Volumes ONTAP
instances in minutes
• Manage your data replication from
the data center to the cloud
• Offers data security choice through
NetApp managed encryption
• Facilitates hybrid environments that
include Cloud Volumes ONTAP and
physical ONTAP® systems

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Why Cloud Volumes ONTAP?
✓ Cloud Volumes ONTAP brings enterprise
class data management for the cloud
✓ Launch new systems in minutes
✓ Seamlessly migrate your data across your
hybrid cloud
✓ Moving to cloud is easy
✓ Cost savings using compression
and deduplication
Data Center
iSCSI
CIFS
SnapVault®
EBS
NFS
SnapMirror®

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How Intuit Simplifies Storage on AWS
Jens Dickmeis
Cloud Solutions Architect
NetApp
D E M 1 3 - S
Justin Stottlemyer
Director, Storage and Systems Architect
Intuit

8. Justin Stottlemyer
Director, Storage and Systems Architect
@JHStott Linked.com/in/justinstottlemyer
July 10, 2019
How Intuit Simplifies
Storage in AWS

9. Agenda
• Intuit AWS Environment
• Cloud Storage Challenges
• Cloud Storage Solution Options
• Cloud Volumes ONTAP Implementation and Progress
• Solution Architecture
• Solution Benefits
• Next Steps
• Q&A
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10. 10
About Intuit and Me
8000
Employees
And over 700 apps
Intuit QuickBooks
processes 25%
of the nation’s GDP
Intuit Tax
processes 40%
of the nation’s taxes
Intuit
processes ~10%
of American’s paychecks
I’ve been the Director, Storage and
Systems Architect at Intuit for 5 years

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Intuit AWS Environment
> 3000 AWS accounts
> 3400 VPCs
Today Next Year
75%
AWS
100%
AWS
Backup in Separate AWS
Accounts and Regions
Windows Linux
US-West 2
Oregon
US-East 2
Ohio

12. 12
Top priorities for cloud migration
SLA & Uptime
Availability &
Durability
Storage Footprint
& Costs
Storage
Management
Feature Set
User
Experience

13. 13
Cloud Storage Solution Options
Object
Amazon
S3
Amazon
EBS
Amazon
EFS
Amazon
FSx
Block NFS SMB

14. 14
NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
High
Availability
Disaster
Recovery
Storage
Efficiencies
Centralized
Management
Deduplication
Thin
Provisioning
Data Tiering
to object
storage

15. 15
Cloud Volumes ONTAP
Implementation and Progress
Proof of Concept Production
CIFS support
AWS Transit
Gateway
integration
4 Accounts 8 VPCs
Distributed file-
systems
Cross-region
replication

16. 16
Intuit Solution Architecture Diagram
Amazon
Amazon
Amazon
Amazon
Amazon
Amazon
Amazon S3 Amazon S3

17. 17
Solution Benefits
RPO=0 Multi-AZ Availability
RPO<1h Multi-Region Disaster Recovery
30-day Backup with Single File Restore
Multi-Protocol NFS/CIFS/iSCSI
Improved Customer Experience
100TB storage
34% storage efficiency
50% cold data

18. 18
Next Steps
• One Intuit Monitoring integration
• Onboard automation
• Self-service volume creation
• Charge back
• High-performance option

19. Questions?
Thank You !
Justin Stottlemyer

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Jens Dickmeis
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Justin Stottlemyer
Intuit