Al Peasland (Head of Technical Partnership, Infiniti Red Bull Racing) shares the secret to the winning Formula One car. By Anne Phey

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Technology –
The Secret to
Winning Formula
One Races.
Insights from
Infiniti RedBull
Racing’s Al
Peasland
 Technology event has never gotten more exciting! We had a total sensory
experience at IBM ASEAN’s Xcite event with Infiniti Red Bull Racing Team.
 Al Peasland (Head of Technical Partnerships, Red Bull Racing) was our speaker who
gave us a TED-style sharing of the partnership between IBM and Red Bull Racing.
We experienced the Infiniti Red Bull spirit of fun and philosophy of “performance
and reliability” with Al’s passionate delivery and interactive presentation.
 Performance is great but if it doesn't happen when you need it, you cannot
consistently win the race. If it is just about reliability, you may not the best without
pushing performance. Both are important to keep staying ahead and winning.

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Top Performing IT Infrastructure Drives Success for
Infiniti Red Bull Racing Formula One Team
The Technology Secrets:
- Platform Computing - Elastic Storage
- Software Defined Storage
 Al shared, “Platform Computing is the back bone infrastructure for high
performance computing, which helped Red Bull Racing with the design of the car,
the analytics and the race strategy.” It is used to plan into the future, to create all
the what if scenarios and to predict what may happen in the two hour race.
 When the single focus is to win races and championships, every element of the
design and manufacture of Formula One racing cars is critical. With Formula One
regulations becoming more stringent each year, Red Bull Racing is designing the
entire car in a virtual world and parts are machined directly from 3D CAD models.
Red Bull Racing also collects massive amounts of data from wind tunnel testing and
from the car during races. These processes demand extensive use of simulation
and data analytics, and a first class IT infrastructure.

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IBM Platform Computing
New ways to harness big data & accelerate
analytics with software-defined storage and cloud
 Infiniti Red Bull Racing is ahead of the league that is embracing Platform
Computing, a software from IBM Systems & Technology Group. Also sometimes
known Elastic Storage for Software Defined Environment. It helps to maximize the
potential of computing power by pooling resources, managing them efficiently
across multiple groups, so that one can run many iterations, simulations and
analytics to get business results fast. This is the winning formula to harness the
benefits of unstructured data and data explosion.
 We are glad to be the technology innovation partner that drives the winning
Formula One car. Technology - platform computing technology - is the secret to
winning!