Renault Sport Racing Customer of Acronis

Acronis International GmbH and Renault Sport Racing announced an technology partnership in which Acronis will provide cloud storage, backup, and active ransomware protection based on artificial intelligence for the Renault Sport Racing IT infrastructure.

The announcement was made in conjunction with Alain Prost, team manager, and four-time Formula 1 world champion, at a gala event in Paris, France, where the Renault e.dams team celebrated its third consecutive Formula E championship title.

“We are happy to have Acronis as a partner, as they share our values and passions for innovation. Every team needs data to improve performance and technology. Acronis makes sure every bit of our data is protected and accessible to us when we need it,” said Alain Prost, four-time F1 world champion, and co-owner of Renault e.dams Formula E team.

This partnership expands the presence of Acronis in automotive and manufacturing environments that require reliability and performance. Today, the company’ products are used by racing teams, and automotive industry with 30% of new enterprise customers originate from the automotive field.

Renault Sport Racing will begin deploying the company’s technology starting with Acronis Storage, a software-defined storage solution, to achieve scalability and streamline the management of growing amounts of data. High definition video feeds, race simulation models, designs, wind tunnel tests, and telemetry data must be stored, protected and shared among multiple teams to ensure performance improvements, as well as compliance with FIA regulations regarding the access to historical data.

Data is important for winning the races – data lost in the datacenter leads to defeat on the racetrack. The company solution’s storage and Backup Cloud solutions will help Renault Sport Racing and Renault-e.dams Team avoid downtime and any disruptions caused by data loss.

Renault Sport Racing chose the company because of reliability is proven by many manufacturing and automotive companies, capabilities of the software-defined storage. The firm’s storage solution offers universal access over multiple protocols iSCSI, S3, Backup Gateway, NFS, and SMB/CIFS and VTL coming soon in 2018.

CloudRAID

CloudRAID technology provides scalability for redundancy, Blockchain-based Notary allows data certification and validation. With new capabilities available to customers every quarter, the company ensures that the customer needs are covered.

“We’re pleased to welcome Acronis as our innovative technology partner and as Team Partner of our Formula E Team Renault-e.dams. We operate in a highly competitive environment where losing data is not an option. As a global leader in data protection with a proven track record in the automotive industry, Acronis is perfectly positioned to protect our systems from downtime caused by data loss,” said Cyril Abiteboul, MD, Renault Sport Racing.

“Automotive is an innovative industry. Connected devices, self-driving cars rely on data availability. All this data needs to be protected. Acronis brings artificial intelligence and machine learning to make our data protection and storage technology even more competitive. Winning is not just about winning, it’s also about cost-effectiveness and efficiency, and Acronis will deliver,” said Serguei Beloussov, CEO, Acronis.