DRIVING HIGH PERFORMANCE AND DATADRIVEN ENGINEERING

Performance is everything for the McLaren Group, which includes McLaren Automotive, its sports car business, McLaren Applied Technologies its technology and innovation business, as well as the McLaren Formula One team. The group relies on McLaren IT to support the growth and speed of innovation across its businesses and to deliver high-performance data centre technologies to power critical business applications used by thousands of its global employees.

For example, the faster the company’s Formula One racing team can design and engineer car components, the faster it can deliver updated specifications on race days. “We need to find performance gains within our server and storage environment because every small improvement we can pull from the IT system directly transfers into optimised design and engineering,” says Paul Brimacombe, head of enterprise architecture at the McLaren Technology Group.