NetApp becomes the official sponsor of the Ducati command the third year in a row

2020: Signing of the next official sponsor's agreement

The Netapp company announced signing of the next official sponsor's agreement with the Ducati Corse command on the World Cup of MotoGP of 2020 that it will allow it to save leadership in digital transformation of prestigious motorcycle races. It became known on January 31, 2020.

Ducati began to cooperate with NetApp in 2018 in order that through the division of Ducati Corse fully to use the potential of the motorcycle races given in the world. Prolonging technology partnership with NetApp, the producer of motorcycles from Bologna confirms that it will use further for digital transformation of the company the data fabric constructed on solutions of Netapp.

Within the last year Ducati actively transferred the IT infrastructure to hyper convergent solutions, and for the beginning of 2020 on them infrastructure of branches of the company in the USA, the countries of Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific Ocean is constructed. These solutions also allow the racing Ducati command to improve the results on the route and within MotoGP World Cup. Besides, more than 200 applications consolidating and providing protection of all environment of data of Ducati work for a solutions flash of Netapp.

Ducati, with assistance of NetApp, develops the innovative solutions and implements numerous digital projects — from HPC-modeling for increase in aerodynamic characteristics of motorcycles to creation of the models connected to the Internet, from development and implementation of the Ducati Link application allowing motorcyclists to configure settings, to write the indicators and routes and to open for itself other types of motor-tourism, before increase in security and development of models.

We are glad to continue cooperation with NetApp as data and digital transformation became key components of our strategy and success in the future, told the CEO of Ducati Motor Holding Claudio Domenicali

Thanks to NetApp we could create even more effective and innovation motorcycle and transfer to our official racers Andrea Dovisioso and Danilo Petrucci the highly competitive tool allowing them to accept adequately MotoGP World Cup call. During development and testing of this model, work with data helped us to find a set of interesting solutions, speaks Luigi Dall'igna, the CEO of Ducati Corse

Digital transformation purchases crucial character in each sector of economy, and the automotive industry sets an example of effective solution of this task. We with are glad to join in Ducati in general and its racing division in particular, doing everything possible in order that data helped them to achieve the maximum success. Our clients with interest monitor this partnership to understand what horizons open innovations and cooperation, added Henri Richard, the executive vice president of Netapp for the international operating activities and work with clients