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Aston Martin F1 Team partners with NetApp optimising application performance and driving sustainability
A s the Formula 1 contest heats up , Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula One Team has partnered with NetApp , to optimise the AMF1 Team ’ s application performance and cost , on and off the track .
Enabling a fast , efficient data pipeline , alongside a simplified and unified management plane , NetApp ’ s technology is supporting the AMF1 Team to spot opportunities for driving improvement in realtime . The aim of the NetApp transformation partnership project with the AMF1 Team was simple : to make their cars go faster . The project is focussed initially on infrastructure and the building out of the data fabric .
NetApp has worked with AMF1 Team to implement FlexPod as a trackside converged infrastructure platform , which replaces multiple singular points of failure , improves availability and performance , while also removing legacy systems . This in turn reduces weight and has a positive impact on reducing carbon footprint .
FlexPod has allowed AMF1 Team ’ s performance software group to tap in to compute power and storage to develop a Kubernetes cluster at track to allow the team to analyse data at a faster rate with no bottlenecks .
By having a high-performing FlexPod solution with two redundant converged infrastructure platforms , AMF1 Team can run all the systems but can load balance across both FlexPods for increased performance . Resiliency at a host level is achieved with three hosts on each FlexPod , redundant network switches and full N + 1 resiliency on cables both across one FlexPod and then between racks and FlexPod .
The IT team must constantly push to enable the whole team and the car to have better agility , greater speed , and improved reliability . With the speed that telemetry data is being sent from trackside to factory being reduced from 20 minutes to less than 10 minutes , engineers at the AMF1 Team factory can analyse the data at speed and adjust if needed .
AMF1 Team uses Cloud Secure , a feature of NetApp Cloud Insights which provides a simple turnkey solution to enhance their ability to detect ransomware and provide user data access auditing . It analyses data access patterns to identify risks from ransomware attacks . It reports access activity from insiders , outsiders , ransomware attacks , and rogue users . Advanced reporting and auditing make it easy to identify violators and possible threats .
Formula 1 set out its sustainability plan to have a net-zero carbon footprint by 2030 . For the AMF1 Team , as a key player in this industry , the introduction of FlexPod is contributing to the team ’ s sustainability efforts in multiple ways .
In the AMF1 Team ’ s new Silverstone smart factory , NetApp Cloud Insights technology helps consolidate the company ’ s older , less efficient systems and provides essential temperature and power monitoring , enabling AMF1 Team to monitor and minimise power consumption .
Teaming with NetApp , the AMF1 Team can easily tap into resources from the world ’ s cloud providers , supporting different workloads with powerful cloud infrastructure as needed . This means that only the computing power that ’ s needed is employed , and no more . •
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