Jaguar Land Rover has deployed EMC Isilon scale-out network attached storage (NAS) for its growing data storage needs.
The car maker uses computer aided engineering (CAE) and high performance computing (HPC) in its simulation, development and testing of vehicles.
In 2010, the Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) undertook a project to decrease reliance on physical testing and increase its simulation operations. This involved the creation of a new storage architecture capable of scaling in line with JLR's growing demand for simulation analysis, which was provided by EMC Isilon.
The company deployed 54 nodes within the cluster of the Isilon X-Series platform, providing a central CAE storage area that mounts to the client infrastructure.
The HPC clusters provide a single CAE data management solution for virtual simulation and physical tests including safety, durability, chassis, aerodynamics, ride and handling.
JLR is also using a separate Isilon NL-Series cluster for disaster recovery and backup, with Isilon SyncIQ software application providing asynchronous data replication between the primary X-Series cluster and remote NL-Series cluster.
“JLR needs a storage solution to match the rapid advances in simulation technology to help sort through the resulting Big Data," said Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing, EMC Isilon.
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