{"id":6633,"date":"2016-03-02T11:32:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T11:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=6633"},"modified":"2016-03-02T11:32:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-02T11:32:14","slug":"mercedes-f1-team-partners-with-pure-storage-for-track-side-performance-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2016\/03\/02\/mercedes-f1-team-partners-with-pure-storage-for-track-side-performance-boost\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes F1 partners with Pure Storage for track side boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.ne.cision.com\/l\/kqeffdcs\/www.purestorage.com\/microsites\/mercedes.html\">Pure Storage<\/a>\u00a0has\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">announced a global partnership with the <strong>Mercedes AMG Petronas <\/strong>Formula One Team. With Pure Storage, the team is accelerating analysis of data-centric transactions that impact car performance and lap time, and is raising the bar for mission-critical business applications that underpin the entire organisation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cWe\u2019re delighted to welcome Pure Storage as a partner of the Mercedes team,\u201d said Toto Wolff, Head of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport. \u201cTechnology is fundamental to our success \u2013 it enables us to perform across our business and ultimately on track. As we are predicting one of the most challenging and competitive seasons in the year ahead, Pure will give us the power we need to tackle our most demanding data challenges.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Today, Mercedes AMG Petronas runs two FlashArray\/\/m70 arrays and four FlashArray\/\/m20 arrays in three pairs, with no single instance anywhere, while leveraging FlashStack CI, Pure\u2019s flexible, all-flash converged infrastructure solution. The workloads running on FlashArray\/\/m70 were initially deployed on FlashArray 450s, until Mercedes\u00a0leveraged <strong>Evergreen Storage<\/strong> to add 40TB of capacity during normal production and business hours without disruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cPure and The Mercedes AMG Petronas\u00a0Formula One Team found common ground in a mutual everyday mission \u2013 to push the boundaries of what\u2019s possible,\u201d said Jonathan Martin, CMO, Pure Storage. \u201cWhen fractions of seconds mean the difference between success and second best, the reliability, simplicity and speed Pure Storage delivers is paramount. Pure is proud to provide Mercedes&#8230;confidence in the performance of its storage platform, so that the team\u2019s primary focus can be performance where it matters most \u2013 on the track.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cBefore Pure, we virtualised storage to the point where we could introduce whatever vendor was right at the time. We soon realised that building a nuanced architecture on an intricate stack translated into building something far too complex \u2013 complexity on top of complexity,\u201d said Matt Harris, Head of IT at the Mercedes\u00a0AMG Petronas\u00a0Formula One Team. \u201cThe choice was clear once we realised we could eliminate bulky, heavy hardware, improve our performance and actually save money taking the technology with us around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s2\"> Pure Storage now helps to drive meaningful results including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\">Boosts to productivity leading to an accelerated kick-off of a business-critical project initially slated for 2017<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\">Immediate time to value by getting the Pure Storage FlashArrays up and running in four hours as opposed to the 6-8 weeks required by previous vendors<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\">35 percent faster race-related transactions, such as opening race car telemetry files<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\">Reduced times for backend application processing such as a 95% reduction in SQL query processing times<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\">Reductions in cost, power and space by replacing 40TB and 26U with 88TB and 6U of Pure systems, resulting in significant logistical savings as the team sets up temporary and remote operations in 21 locations worldwide<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s2\">The ability to deliver services quicker, for instance enabling IT to stand up 60 or 70 virtual machines a day versus one or two machines prior to implementing Pure Storage<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cPure Storage\u2019s Evergreen business model removed the anxiety of the traditional storage renewal. It\u2019s a brilliant example of the simplicity you get with Pure and it changes the board-level conversation when trying to propose a new platform,\u201d said Harris. \u201cThe typical concerns about future issues \u2013 capacity, upgrades, maintenance and how much it will all cost us again \u2013 are no longer an issue. We were able to immediately focus on getting the technology in the door and impacting the business as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Mercedes AMG Petronas will participate later this month at the upcoming annual <a href=\"https:\/\/wpyadmin.ne.cision.com\/l\/kqeffdcs\/www.purestorage.com\/events\/pure_accelerate2016.html\"><span class=\"s1\">Pure\/\/Accelerate<\/span><\/a> conference, along with other technology and business leaders, who will share in a dialogue about pushing the boundaries of what is possible in their businesses, with customers and through the technology they interact with every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pure Storage\u00a0has\u00a0announced a global partnership with the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team. With Pure Storage, the team is accelerating analysis of data-centric transactions that impact car performance and lap time, and is raising the bar for mission-critical business applications that underpin the entire organisation. \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to welcome Pure Storage as a partner of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":6634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,46],"tags":[41,1340,1341,841],"class_list":["post-6633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies","category-data-centres","tag-data-centres-2","tag-formula-one","tag-mercedes-amg-petronas","tag-pure-storage"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}