Aston Martin Aramco F1 team accelerates with NetApp's unified data solutions

The Aston Martin Aramco Formula One® Team has successfully completed its journey to fully migrate its data storage systems to NetApp, renowned for its intelligent data infrastructure solutions. This transition marks a significant upgrade in their operations, integrating unified, secure, and AI-ready capabilities to power design, simulation, and trackside activities.

By adopting an Intelligent Data Infrastructure exclusively powered by NetApp, Aston Martin Aramco can now enjoy uninterrupted access to critical data. This facilitates faster decision-making, essential in the high-speed world of Formula One®, where every millisecond counts. Key features include AI-driven workflows that streamline design-to-build processes and enhance overall performance outcomes.

NetApp's StorageGRID offers scalable, geo-distributed object storage with enterprise-grade resilience, efficiently managing the large volumes of data generated during team operations. Complementing this, BlueXP provides a unified control console and improved observability across the entire data ecosystem.

Specialising in high-performance data storage and real-time data management, NetApp aids Aston Martin Aramco in analysing telemetry, optimising race strategies, and fine-tuning car performance both on and off the track. Their solution ensures that engineering teams access vital data in real-time across cloud and edge environments, facilitating timely and informed decision-making.

The NetApp solutions also enhance the team's capacity to conduct complex simulations more rapidly and effectively, offering seamless access to vast datasets within hybrid cloud frameworks. This allows for accelerated design iterations, aiding engineers in refining aerodynamics, strategy, and overall performance well before the car hits the track.

As highlighted by Fabrizio Pilotti, Aston Martin Aramco's CIO, the team generates and analyses vast amounts of data in pursuit of excellence in car and team performance. NetApp provides them with a scalable, secure infrastructure tailored for high-performance computing, vital for making data-driven decisions across their operations.

Gabie Boko, NetApp's Chief Marketing Officer, emphasises the demands of the Formula One™ environment, where success hinges on rapid decision-making founded on well-informed design and engineering strategies. The partnership with Aston Martin Aramco underscores NetApp's expertise in delivering data infrastructure solutions that fuel decision-making processes at every level.