(soft music) Hi, I'm Carol Martin. I'm with NetApp customer reference team, and I am very excited to have Stefano Rendina with us today. He's gonna tell us a little bit about Ducati race at Corset, his job, and what he and his team are doing with data and with NetApp. Welcome. Thank you. It's a pleasure say here for me to explain and try to share with us something about my story and what I works for IT in Ducati race department too. Well, we're excited to have you here. And first of all, I would love to congratulate you on your fantastic 2022 season. You are world champions, and I'd like to find out a little bit about getting to this world championship. Really, this year was incredible because we did a hat trick in a MotoGP. We reached the manufacture title sponsor, the team title at the same time the rider. You tell right it's a really dream job, my job, because I can work directly on tracks during the race and also follow all the IT activities on at quarter for my colleagues. And I start 13 years old as like a system engineer. Now I'm a team manager at the best of this position is to help my colleagues to introduce a new technology project with the software, also with NetApp, of course, to do the best to reach the goal that we have every day to reach, of course. Thank you. So you said that you've been with Ducati for 13 years, so that's 13 years of seeing how technology has changed and how data has changed. What did that look like 13 years ago, and what does it look like today? Oh, I think everything has changed in the last over 10 years because we've passed from a lot of technology, and technology grows during therace, during the years. I'll give you an example. We possible to acquire on the tracks with the ECU with electronic control unit 500 megabyte of data during the weekend. And this year, we collect something like 20 gigabyte of data for each our motorbikes. The electronics grow up so fast and also the amount of the data inside our storage. And we had to think about how we can change this kind of paradigm because we start to, when I start when I was really young, when I start in Ducati, we start to work only on tracks with the data. We acquire the data, we share on a server and storage inside the track, and we work on it. And the same we do in 2015 when the tap help us to make some simulation during the race weekend during the test with the HCI infrastructure. But in thelast two years, everything has changed with the pandemic situation of course. And we start to change the mindset because too we are focused in the past to analyze the data inside on talent on track. Now we are thinking about with the support of NetApp and the global file cache to how can move this data as fast as possible in the cloud. It can expand the possibility to works from my colleagues directly from home and directly from headquarter to check the data and give some suggestion directly on tracks during the race weekend. So you're using data for the track, but you're also using it off the track. And you know, you're using it for operations and for design. How are you using data to influence the design? Data are most important for everything because Ducati Corset is a little race department inside the Ducati Motor Org. They're holding the big one. But there is a connection from the race to the production plant because we are like a innovation startup because we try a lot of things that now are using for the days, but for the future in the next year, you can find also in production motorbikes. I'll give you an example. ABS strategy was developed inside the race department. Now you can find ABS for all our motorbikes on the suite version. And other things that we develop in the last five years are the winglets on our motorbikes. We invest a lot on aerodynamic study with the support with the high calculation infrastructure, the same time with high level storage, and decide to introduce also in our street version motorbikes, for example, the street fighter, and we did that because after our study that we used for the race bike, we understand that give more stability during the turning also to production bikes. This is the exchange that is from race to production plant and so.what you do is for the track, but your end customer benefits from it completely. Yeah. Our customer can find a lot of MotoGP solution that develop for MotoGP. For example, the electronic strategy, also the aerodynamic that I told you before. There is a connection because we want, in Ducati, that our customer feel like in a race, like in a racing steam racing world, also with the street bike. And design project, all design activities was shared from the race also to the race department to the production plant because it's most important for us share all knowledge. And everything can do something for the design. In the design project, design activity, there are a specific part of IT, a specific part of data collected during the race inside the track. The little, lot of part about our engineers ideas. We work together like a team to produce a very,beautiful and powerful motorbike for the road. Yes, you do. (laughs) So tell me what NetApp technologies are giving you most value? Yeah. I think in a high technology world as a MotoGP, a technology partner is most important to grow and to reach the goal. This is the case of NetApp because when we start in 2018, our data management process was very poor. We are discussing with NetApp to create something different, it isn't a partnership with a sticker on a bikes or sticker on a suit, of course. I want to create a collaborative team, collaboration team to understand how can use the technology offered by NetApp to improve our motorbikes. And we start to review the data manager process because we start to introduce the possibility to make sound simulation directing on track with HCI infrastructure, of course. At the same time, we grow inside the production plant at the production cycles because to understand how can manage also the data come from the other department too. We are thinking about to use the global file cache for the future because we moved from the data focused on tracks to share the data as soon as possible to our engineers, can do the work remotely from home or from the headquarter. The best support that can ask by NetApp is not the solution, but is the people behind the solution to try to understand can use the solution in better ways as possible. It is a great partnership, and we are so proud to be a part of it so thank you very much. You're welcome. I'm just curious about some of the benefits that you have experienced faster time to market or savings or performance or anything. In the first step, of course, we have a cost saving because we reduce the number of storage used inside thefactory because they starting to introduce a storage grid volume on top. And this has allowed that to reduce the number of storage inside the data center and move something directly in the cloud, of course. But at the same time, there are I think indirect cost efficiency and directly benefits also for in production of motorbikes because if you have a possibility to design driving and the best motorbikes, you have the possibility also to sell a large amount of our motorbikes, of course. The IT department helps of course to develop the best bike on track. At the same, time on the road, of course. Thank you so much for joining us today. I enjoyed our conversation. We are thankful to have you as a customer and as a partner, and we look forward to more innovations with you. Thank you to NetApp because if we reach electric this year it's also with NetApp support, of course. Thank you.