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The team chose Pure Storage based on simplicity, performance and reliability. With Pure Storage, the team is accelerating analysis of data-centric transactions that impact car performance and lap time, and is raising the bar for mission-critical business applications that underpin the entire organisation.

"We're delighted to welcome Pure Storage as a partner of the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team," said Toto Wolff, Head of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport. "Technology is fundamental to our success - it enables us to perform across our business and ultimately on track. As we are predicting one of the most challenging and competitive seasons in the year ahead, Pure will give us the power we need to tackle our most demanding data challenges."

The Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team requires an infrastructure that is both state-of-the-art and portable. Putting performance-critical workloads at risk of availability in the cloud was a risk the team could not afford. The density and reliability of Pure Storage offered a solution that mapped perfectly to the team's business requirements.

Today, Mercedes AMG Petronas runs two FlashArray//m70 arrays and four FlashArray//m20 arrays in three pairs, with no single instance anywhere, while leveraging FlashStack CI, Pure's flexible, all-flash converged infrastructure solution. The workloads running on FlashArray//m70 were initially deployed on FlashArray 450s, until Mercedes AMG Petronas leveraged Evergreen Storage to add 40TB of capacity during normal production and business hours without disruption.

"Pure and The Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team found common ground in a mutual everyday mission - to push the boundaries of what's possible," said Jonathan Martin, CMO, Pure Storage. "When fractions of seconds mean the difference between success and second best, the reliability, simplicity and speed Pure Storage delivers can be paramount. Pure is proud to provide Mercedes AMG Petronas confidence in the performance of its storage platform, so that the team's primary focus can be performance where it matters most - on the track."

Mercedes AMG Petronas sought to future-proof and incorporate new innovation into an infrastructure platform that requires continuous evolution to support the operational demands of a racing organisation built to win. Seeking to enhance service availability and prevent disruption, the company considered a number of different solutions, and ultimately selected Pure Storage. Although they initially sought a solution that could address primarily performance issues, the team soon realised it could cut through all performance issues while managing cost, with true simplicity from Pure.

"Before Pure, we virtualised storage to the point where we could introduce whatever vendor was right at the time. We soon realised that building a nuanced architecture on an intricate stack translated into building something far too complex - complexity on top of complexity," said Matt Harris, Head of IT at the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team. "The choice was clear once we realised we could eliminate bulky, heavy hardware, improve our performance and actually save money taking the technology with us around the world."

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