NetApp, a global data-centric, cloud-based software company, announced the renewal of its partnership agreement with Ducati Corse for the 2023 through 2025 seasons and appoints NetApp as the team’s official data infrastructure partner. The latest innovation resulting from this partnership is a virtual data and insights management solution for race analytics and R&D that uses NetApp ONTAP® with NetApp SnapMirror and NetApp FlexCache.
The world of grand prix racing relies heavily on speed. When Ducati Corse realized that synchronization times between the track and engineers at several locations, including the Borgo Panigale headquarters, were too slow to be effective, they turned to NetApp to help design a new data management solution and insights. Offering near real-time data sharing and analysis, NetApp helps technical teams extract maximum value from test sessions and races, which can make the difference between pole position and a starting position on the grid.
“Through our joint innovation with Ducati, we play a key role in revolutionizing your data infrastructure, improving every facet of your software development, design and engineering,” said Gabie Boko, Chief Marketing Officer at NetApp. “Our collaboration has enabled near real-time data sharing and analysis, accelerating the entire elite motorcycling data analysis landscape. Ducati is one of the shining stars in Italy’s ‘Motor Valley’ and we are committed to working with Ducati to help them achieve greater success.”
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Benefits of the jointly designed solution include:
- Seamless connection between Ducati data infrastructure clusters, so engineers can access the same always-available data from anywhere.
- Data and insights captured in an elite racing environment to be used across all Ducati business units.
- A software-defined approach to creating a powerful, efficient data warehouse built on NetApp ONTAP® – delivering the power of NetApp’s decades of enterprise data management innovation and product leadership.
- Optimized data transfer with NetApp ONTAP with SnapMirror for unified, high-speed, secure data replication.
- FlexCache remote cache for active data reading only. FlexCache improves the speed and productivity of multi-site collaboration, increases data throughput, and reduces WAN bandwidth costs.
“With this data management platform, we can seamlessly manage, share, secure and move our data across our hybrid cloud environment, from the factory to our garage to the track during a race, and share data with our engineers in a way that be fast, safe and seamless,” said Gigi Dall’Igna, general manager of Ducati Corse. “As holders of the Triple Crown and with our first MotoGP riders’ world title in 15 years, we need the best technology, data and data management to ensure we defend these titles and we are confident in our partnership with NetApp to help us do that.”
SOURCE : BusinessWire