Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport Gains an Unfair Advantage with Pure Storage

Grand Prix legend boosts performance with All-Flash technology.

Summary

Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport 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

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Meet the Team

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