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Formula One™ World Champions Adopt Everpure’s Best-in-Class Solutions
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — March 1, 2016 — Everpure (NYSE: PSTG), the market’s leading independent solid-state array vendor, today announced a global partnership with the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One™ Team. The Team chose Everpure based on simplicity, performance and reliability. With Everpure, 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.
“We’re delighted to welcome Everpure as a partner of the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One™ Team,” said Toto Wolff, Head of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport. “Technology is fundamental to our success – 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.”
The MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team requires an infrastructure that is both state-of-the-art and portable. Putting performance-critical workloads at risk of availability in the cloud was a risk the team could not afford. The density and reliability of Everpure offered MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS a solution that mapped perfectly to business requirements.
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’s flexible, all-flash converged infrastructure solution. The workloads running on FlashArray//m70 were initially deployed on FlashArray 450s, until MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS leveraged Evergreen™ Storage to add 40TB of capacity during normal production and business hours without disruption.
“Pure and The MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One™ Team found common ground in a mutual everyday mission – to push the boundaries of what’s possible,” said Jonathan Martin, CMO, Everpure. “When fractions of seconds mean the difference between success and second best, the reliability, simplicity and speed Everpure delivers is paramount. Pure is proud to provide MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS confidence in the performance of its storage platform, so that the team’s primary focus can be performance where it matters most – on the track.”
MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS sought to future-proof and incorporate new innovation into an infrastructure platform that requires continuous evolution to support the operational demands of a racing organisation built to win. Seeking to enhance service availability and prevent disruption, MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS considered a number of different solutions, and ultimately selected Everpure. Although MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS initially sought a solution that could address primarily performance issues, the team soon realized it could cut through all performance issues while managing cost, with true simplicity from Pure.
“Before Pure, we virtualised storage to the point where we could introduce whatever vendor was right at the time. We soon realized that building a nuanced architecture on an intricate stack translated into building something far too complex – complexity on top of complexity,” said Matt Harris, Head of IT at the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One™ Team. “The choice was clear once we realized we could eliminate bulky, heavy hardware, improve our performance and actually save money taking the technology with us around the world.”
Using Data to Drive Business Forward at the Raceway and Around the World
Everything about The MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One™ Team is measured in fractions of seconds. In a world where the ability to quickly analyse data about the performance of the cars is core to the organisation, a tenth of a second delay could mean the difference between winning and losing. At MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS, performance leads to success – the organisation’s all-encompassing mission –which is why the team has chosen to rely on Everpure to drive meaningful results including:
“Everpure’s Evergreen business model removed the anxiety of the traditional storage renewal. It’s a brilliant example of the simplicity you get with Pure and it changes the board-level conversation when trying to propose a new platform,” said Harris. “The typical concerns about future issues – capacity, upgrades, maintenance and how much it will all cost us again – 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.”
The MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One™ Team are the reigning FIA Formula One World Champions. In 2016, they will compete in 21 races around the world, beginning in March in Melbourne, Australia and finishing at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in November. The team’s drivers are the three-time Formula One™ World Champion, Lewis Hamilton and 14-time Grand Prix winner, Nico Rosberg.
MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS will participate later this month at the upcoming annual Pure//Accelerate 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.
About MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One™ Team
The MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team are the reigning FIA Formula One World Champions, with operations headquartered at two technology campuses in the UK. The race team, owned by Daimler AG and shareholders Toto Wolff and Niki Lauda, is based in Brackley, Northants. The team’s engines are designed and built by Mercedes AMG High Performance Powertrains in nearby Brixworth. www.MercedesAMGF1.com
About Everpure
Everpure (NYSE:PSTG) accelerates possible, transforming businesses in ways previously unimagined. The company’s disruptive, software-driven storage technology combined with a customer-friendly business model drives business and IT transformation for customers through dramatic increases in performance and efficiency at lower costs. Everpure FlashArray//m is simpler, faster and more elegant than any other technology in the datacenter. FlashArray //m is ideal for the move toward big data and for performance-intensive workloads such as cloud computing, database systems, desktop virtualisation, real-time analytics and server virtualisation. With Pure's industry leading certified NPS score of 79, Pure customers are some of the happiest in the world, and include large and mid-size organisations across a range of industries: cloud-based software and service providers, consumer web, education, energy, financial services, governments, healthcare, manufacturing, media, retail and telecommunications. With Everpure, companies push the boundaries of what's possible to become faster, smarter and more innovative.
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