Red Bull Racing chooses SimpliVity as its exclusive hyperconverged infrastructure provider
Announcement posted by SimpliVity 08 Nov 2016
Formula One team selects SimpliVity for industry-leading performance, agility, and efficiency
Sydney, Australia — November 8, 2016 — SimpliVity, a leader in hyperconverged infrastructure revolutionising enterprise IT, today announced that Red Bull Racing, a leading Formula One racing team, has turned to SimpliVity to refresh its virtualised IT infrastructure on and off the track. With SimpliVity, Red Bull Racing is able to realise substantial data efficiency and capacity space savings, major improvements in application performance, data processing, VDI workstations, and a reduced total cost of ownership.
SimpliVity is a leader in hyperconverged infrastructure and provides the world’s most complete hyperconverged solution by combining all the systems and functionality of an entire data centre stack—including compute, storage, network switching, replication, and more—onto industry-standard x86 hardware.
Red Bull Racing is one of the world’s leading Formula One racing teams. Despite being a relative newcomer in the sport, the organisation has put together an impressive record with 154 wins and four double (Driver’s and Constructor’s) world championships in just a 12-season history. Critical to their success is a robust and responsive IT infrastructure, underpinning both use in the factory and also remotely from the circuits around the world. According to the IT team, application processes involving some real-time data processing has been reduced by as much as 60% with SimpliVity. The team also found in its testing that SimpliVity delivered twice the performance of other leading hyperconverged competitors.
The racing team first invested in SimpliVity in 2015 when it needed a way to more efficiently and reliably run BAU systems such as ERP, mission-critical in-house applications, SQL Server, and VDI. The organisation has now selected SimpliVity to extend its hyperconverged investment in the following ways:
“Red Bull Racing is an organisation known for its creativity, speed, and innovation. The racing team’s implementation of SimpliVity will help to further separate Red Bull Racing as a leader in Formula One, enabling the team to focus more on the success of its cars and drivers, and less on its IT infrastructure,” said Jesse St. Laurent, VP product strategy, SimpliVity.
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Founded with a mission to simplify IT, SimpliVity is a pioneer in the hyperconverged infrastructure market, disrupting the status quo of complex and cumbersome legacy IT systems. SimpliVity’s hyperconverged IT platform delivers enterprise-class performance and availability that today’s IT leaders require, with the cloud economics their business demands. No other company has taken on the mega task of assimilating all IT elements below the hypervisor (8 to 12 disparate functions) into a simple 2U building block of x86 sharable resources to deliver unmatched IT simplicity, operational efficiency, and 3x TCO savings. The company’s unique data virtualisation architecture improves performance, protection and data efficiency, while also enabling global unified management from a single console. SimpliVity has revolutionised IT systems for hundreds of enterprises around the world. Headquartered in Westborough, Mass., the company has raised $276 million in venture capital and employs about 750 worldwide. SimpliVity’s business model is 100 percent indirect, and its solutions and professional services are available worldwide through its network of resellers and distributors. For more information, visit http://www.simplivity.com.
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SimpliVity is a leader in hyperconverged infrastructure and provides the world’s most complete hyperconverged solution by combining all the systems and functionality of an entire data centre stack—including compute, storage, network switching, replication, and more—onto industry-standard x86 hardware.
Red Bull Racing is one of the world’s leading Formula One racing teams. Despite being a relative newcomer in the sport, the organisation has put together an impressive record with 154 wins and four double (Driver’s and Constructor’s) world championships in just a 12-season history. Critical to their success is a robust and responsive IT infrastructure, underpinning both use in the factory and also remotely from the circuits around the world. According to the IT team, application processes involving some real-time data processing has been reduced by as much as 60% with SimpliVity. The team also found in its testing that SimpliVity delivered twice the performance of other leading hyperconverged competitors.
The racing team first invested in SimpliVity in 2015 when it needed a way to more efficiently and reliably run BAU systems such as ERP, mission-critical in-house applications, SQL Server, and VDI. The organisation has now selected SimpliVity to extend its hyperconverged investment in the following ways:
- Critical trackside virtualised infrastructure for general workloads and data analysis
- A half-sized replica of the race hyperconverged infrastructure to be used for testing purposes
- A separate logical data centre dedicated to data processing and general workloads at Red Bull Racing’s wind tunnel
- A stretched cluster deployment providing highest levels of availability across two data centres for high frame-rate VDI workloads
- GPU accelerated high-performance VDI to support demanding 2D and 3D workstations
- Expansion of the hyperconverged infrastructure for mixed workload virtual servers
“Red Bull Racing is an organisation known for its creativity, speed, and innovation. The racing team’s implementation of SimpliVity will help to further separate Red Bull Racing as a leader in Formula One, enabling the team to focus more on the success of its cars and drivers, and less on its IT infrastructure,” said Jesse St. Laurent, VP product strategy, SimpliVity.
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Founded with a mission to simplify IT, SimpliVity is a pioneer in the hyperconverged infrastructure market, disrupting the status quo of complex and cumbersome legacy IT systems. SimpliVity’s hyperconverged IT platform delivers enterprise-class performance and availability that today’s IT leaders require, with the cloud economics their business demands. No other company has taken on the mega task of assimilating all IT elements below the hypervisor (8 to 12 disparate functions) into a simple 2U building block of x86 sharable resources to deliver unmatched IT simplicity, operational efficiency, and 3x TCO savings. The company’s unique data virtualisation architecture improves performance, protection and data efficiency, while also enabling global unified management from a single console. SimpliVity has revolutionised IT systems for hundreds of enterprises around the world. Headquartered in Westborough, Mass., the company has raised $276 million in venture capital and employs about 750 worldwide. SimpliVity’s business model is 100 percent indirect, and its solutions and professional services are available worldwide through its network of resellers and distributors. For more information, visit http://www.simplivity.com.
Media Contacts
Amanda Conroy
Espresso Communications
amanda@espressocomms.com.au
+61 2 8016 2200
+61 422 472 883
Amy Rathbone
Espresso Communications
amy@espressocomms.com.au
+61 2 8016 2200
+61 423 230 244
® 2016, SimpliVity. All rights reserved. Information described herein is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice. SimpliVity, the SimpliVity logo, OmniCube, OmniStack, and Data Virtualisation Platform are trademarks or registered trademarks of SimpliVity Corporation in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.