Acronis for Renault Sport Racing

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

The announcement was made in conjunction with the team manager and four-time Formula 1 world champion Alain Prost, at a gala event in Paris, 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.

The partnership expands the presence of Acronis in automotive and manufacturing environments that require high reliability and performance. Its 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 Acronis technology starting with Acronis Storage, a software-defined storage (SDS) solution, to achieve scalability and streamline the management of growing amounts of data. HD 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. Acronis 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 Acronis because of its reliability by many manufacturing and automotive companies, capabilities of the software-defined storage. Acronis Storage offers universal access over multiple protocols iSCSI, S3, Acronis Backup Gateway, NFS, and SMB/CIFS and VTL coming soon in 2018. Company’ CloudRAID technology provides scalability for redundancy; blockchain-based Acronis Notary allows data certification and validation. With new capabilities available to customers every quarter, it ensures that the evolving 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, Renault Sport Racing, MD.

“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.