Aston Martin Aramco Formula One® Team and NetApp Renew Partnership
February 05 2024 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Intelligent data infrastructure helped drive
world-class racing team to its best season to date, with eight
top-three finishes in 2023
The Aston Martin Aramco Formula One® Team and NetApp® (NASDAQ:
NTAP), the intelligent data infrastructure company, today announced
the renewal of their partnership, designating NetApp as the team’s
Global Data Infrastructure Partner. NetApp has been a key partner
to the team since it returned to Formula One® racing in 2021 after
more than 60 years away from the track. This partnership renewal
builds on the previous three years of successful collaboration,
empowering Aston Martin Aramco to use NetApp’s storage technology
to instantly store, manage, and access the immense amounts of data
the team needs to optimize its performance.
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Clare Lansley (left), CIO of Aston Martin
Aramco and George Kurian (right), CEO of NetApp, shake hands to
celebrate their companies’ partnership renewal. (Photo: Business
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Data gives Formula One® drivers and their support teams the
insights they need to make the right decisions to optimize their
race performance. Data powers simulations that help teams predict
and respond to scenarios that might occur during a race such as
changing weather conditions or an unplanned pit stop. Using data to
understand the impact of these situations in advance enables them
to adapt in real-time in a race where milliseconds matter. Without
those insights, the teams might not make a decision about how to
respond before the opportunity has passed by. During any race, the
Aston Martin Aramco team collects data from hundreds of sensors,
including real-time performance statistics such as track
temperature, tire degradation, and aerodynamics. Instant access to
that data, both trackside and at the team’s state-of-the-art AMR
Technology Campus (AMRTC), gives the team the data it needs to
adapt its race strategy in real-time. Since sharing data between
the track and team headquarters plays such a central role in the
team’s success, data storage and management is a mission-critical
function.
“We are delighted to renew our partnership with NetApp as we
enter our fourth season together since returning to Formula One in
2021,” said Clare Lansley, CIO of Aston Martin Aramco. “NetApp has
been with us all the way on this journey together and are
fundamental to our trackside operations and at our Headquarters at
the AMRTC in Silverstone. We use data to improve our performance
and go faster and NetApp’s work with the team is vital to this
success.”
By leveraging the data NetApp stores and manages, the Aston
Martin Aramco team reached the podium eight times, scored 280
points, and finished fifth in the Constructors’ Championship in the
2023 Formula One® season. By having NetApp as its Global Data
Infrastructure Partner, the team will receive continued support for
its data storage and analysis including:
- Speed: The NetApp FlexPod® data center solution helps
the team instantly access and store immense amounts of data,
transferring data quickly and efficiently between trackside, race
headquarters, and the factory to enable near-real time decisions
that affect race strategy.
- Reliability: NetApp® Cloud Volumes ONTAP® ensures
enterprise reliability and continuous operations in case of
failures, so the team’s data is always there when it needs it.
- Observability: NetApp® Cloud Insights makes it easy for
the team to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize all its resources
and applications so it can efficiently adopt and operate new
technology both on premises and in the cloud, providing full-stack
observability.
- Security: NetApp® Storage Workload Security provides
continuous protection against both insider and external threats by
monitoring and protecting the data held on the NetApp
platform.
- Scalability: The entire NetApp solution can scale and
grow so the team can rise to any challenge even as its IT
requirements grow and change.
“NetApp and the Aston Martin Aramco team are well matched as
partners because we are both dedicated to the pursuit of
breakthrough performance and true innovation,” said Gabie Boko,
Chief Marketing Officer at NetApp. “When Aston Martin returned to
the Formula One® circuit after more than 60 years away, they needed
a technology partner to help them rise to every moment, both on and
off the track. NetApp provides Aston Martin Aramco with an
intelligent data infrastructure that runs at the speed of Formula
One®.”
The sheer speed at which Aston Martin Aramco can harness its
stored data gives it a clear competitive advantage. NetApp data
solutions enable the team to fuel its relentless pursuit of
innovation as it designs faster vehicles and optimizes its race
strategy.
Additional Resources
- NetApp & Aston Martin Aramco Formula One® Team Partnership
Webpage
- Aston Martin F1 Team Rising to the Top (blog)
About NetApp
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