NetApp Powers Porsche Motorsport to ABB FIA Formula E World Championship Wins with Data-driven Cloud Solutions
NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) announces a multi-year partnership with the TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team, aimed at enhancing race performance through innovative hybrid cloud solutions. This collaboration integrates real-time data services to support on-track decision-making and optimize race strategies. Porsche targets 80% electric vehicle sales by 2030, leveraging NetApp's technology to advance their electric vehicle development. Key cloud solutions include Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Global File Cache, ensuring data availability and processing across racing locations.
- Partnership with TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team to enhance performance.
- Integration of innovative hybrid cloud solutions for real-time decision-making.
- Supports Porsche's goal of 80% electric vehicle sales by 2030.
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TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team utilizes real-time data collaboration powered by NetApp hybrid cloud solutions to achieve superior performance
Real-time data collaboration service for the racetrack
NetApp's hybrid cloud solutions enable TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team to access their data trackside to support driver and team performance. This helps them make data-driven decisions in real-time, for example when to use the Formula E Attack Mode, which unlocks an additional 30 kilowatts of engine power. The rules about engaging Attack Mode are set by FIA shortly before every ePrix, hence it has a great impact on race strategy.
With data at the core of racing, business, and engineering decisions, the TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team requires cutting-edge data management technology:
- Data and systems need to be available at the racetrack and fulfill demanding performance requirements.
- Digital data collected during the ePrix must be uploaded to the cloud for analysis while the race is still running.
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Cloud data needs to be processed by the team at Porsche Motorsport headquarters in Weissach,
Germany for R&D. - After the race, data must be transferred to the cloud so it can be utilized in the future, and to support crucial data services such as backup and archiving.
The hybrid cloud data solution designed by NetApp and Porsche in response combines cloud network-attached (NAS) storage services with Global File Cache to ensure data can flow seamlessly and quickly between different widely dispersed locations. It also integrates powerful NetApp data services to ensure version consistency, manage and monitor cloud resources, and protect Porsche’s intellectual property:
- Cloud Volumes ONTAP is the primary storage platform for TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team. The multicloud solution deployed on Azure acts as a hub that consolidates all the team’s data.
- Global File Cache, the cloud volume edge capability provides local edge instances, enabling low-latency access to a common dataset, both at the on-premises development center in Weissach and the racetrack.
- Cloud Manager delivers centralized orchestration across hybrid cloud storage infrastructure and all data management services, so that TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team can manage, monitor and automate all their data software and hardware consumption.
- Cloud Backup integrates as backup and archive layer for the consolidated cloud data.
“Formula E is a technology showcase and R&D backbone for Porsche and preserves our strong motorsports heritage on the road and on the track,” said
“This is a winning partnership in which two champions meet eye-to-eye. Porsche has secured over 30,000 wins in all major car racing series. NetApp has submitted more than 2,500 data innovation patents. Joining forces now, we are working to make our mark on the future of racing,” said
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About Porsche in
With the Porsche 99X Electric, Porsche returned to open-wheel single-seater racing in 2019 after more than 30 years and celebrated a successful debut scoring second place at the season-opener in Saudi Arabia’s Diriyah in the ABB Formula E season 6. In 2021/2022, the TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team contests its third
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