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Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team

Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team Drives Wins with Data

Grand Prix legend boosts performance with All-Flash technology.

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Summary

Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team demands peak performance from every member of the team to continue its record-setting ways in Formula 1™. To push the performance envelope of its IT infrastructure, the team chose all-flash arrays from Pure Storage which have delivered blinding speed, unprecedented reliability and availability, and significant savings in operating costs.

Industry

Automotive

GEO

Europe
Middle East
Africa

Use Cases

SAP
Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle
VSI

Website

Meet the Team

The Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 team and Pure Storage

Mercedes powers performance by leveraging FlashBlade//S for its enhanced capabilities, simplicity, and greater efficiency.

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Challenges

Finding new means to efficiently collect, manage and share ever-increasing amounts of data used to improve racecar design and performance
Multi-disciplinary design and engineering requirements stress the team’s IT infrastructure in the constant pursuit of incremental improvements to race car performance
Requires an infrastructure that is portable

Results

Business Transformation

Team members both trackside and at the factory have instant access to critical data used to continually improve racecar performance
Team has eliminated complexity and possible points of failure

IT Transformation

Response time for key database query slashed by 95%
Time needed to open critical data files cut by two-thirds
Data centre rack space reduced by 68%
Time required to manage storage lowered by over 90%

Once the Pure Storage array was installed, everybody started to see the benefits. In fact, we saw improvements in areas that we didn’t expect.

Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team

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