Jaguar Land Rover

JAGUAR LAND ROVER

EMC Isilon drives Big Data simulation for award-winning Land Rover products OVERVIEW Jaguar Land Rover designs, engineers, and manufactures some of the world’s most desirable premium automotive vehicles available today. With headquarters in the United Kingdom, and one of the country’s largest export manufacturers, its success within a competitive international marketplace depends on innovation. In 2011, Jaguar Land Rover launched the Range Rover Evoque to critical acclaim. Now the winner of over 120 awards including the prestigious 2012 Motor Trend SUV of the Year and World Car Design of the Year, the vehicle is enjoying high customer demand, selling over 80,000 units in its first year alone.

ESSENTIALS

BUSINESS CHALLENGES

Industry

Following the decision to bring the Range Rover Evoque to market, teams of company

Automotive Design, Engineering, and Manufacturing

development is a compromise among many factors including customer satisfaction

Company Size 25,000+ Business Challenges •

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Existing platform could not provide HPC environment to adequately drive CAE virtualization

design and production engineers were faced with a number of challenges. Vehicle and environmental considerations, engineering, manufacturing, and design. But in the case of the Evoque, the company wanted more: they wanted design at the top end of their agenda, but also required a process that would work in harmony with engineering and manufacturing to create something that was truly desirable and that people would buy. To do so, Jaguar Land Rover engineers relied on an innovative computer-aided engineering (CAE) process. Historically, teams of engineers had worked with CAE

Required quick scale-out to store and manage hundreds of TBs of data

applications to design and build a range of prototype models that could be used for

Needed methods to minimize time to market, reduce costs, and ensure design team collaboration

flexibility, and cost-effectiveness, while also reducing time to market.

Required robust backup and restore to help ensure 24/7/365 data availability and comprehensive data protection

testing. But the build of physical models is expensive and time consuming. Jaguar Land Rover wanted an innovative process that would increase collaborative efficiency, To address the challenge, the company needed to refresh its IT infrastructure with a high-performance computing (HPC) environment that would drive virtual simulation for all of its engineers. Ideally, any new infrastructure would incorporate next-generation scale-out technologies to handle hundreds of TBs of data. Data available 24/7/365 and driven by high IOPS was also necessary to allow engineering teams to create iteration after iteration of design for analysis and testing without running into performance or storage issues. Backup and disaster recovery (DR) was also a challenge: Jaguar Land Rover required a solution that would continue to provide constant data availability to help ensure zero disruption in workflow, even when faced with major failures. Following a comprehensive request for quotation (RFQ), Jaguar Land Rover chose EMC® Isilon® to meet its challenges.

CUSTOMER PROFILE

ESSENTIALS Solutions •

EMC Isilon X-Series

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EMC Isilon NL-Series

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EMC Isilon SyncIQ

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Manages 500+ TB of critical vehicle design and simulation data, up to 10 TBs of additional data per day, with a 500 percent storage increase compared to legacy systems

SOLUTION Jaguar Land Rover deployed a variety of EMC Isilon scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) technologies together with Intel processors for high IOPS data availability, as well as Intel-driven workstations. A 54-node Isilon X-Series platform drives innovative Computer Aided Engineering workflows. A separate Isilon NL-Series cluster was deployed to manage backup and recovery requirements. The EMC Isilon SyncIQ™ software application, specifically designed for scale-out NAS environments, was delivered to provide asynchronous data replication between the primary X-Series and remote NL-Series clusters, with full backup and restore capabilities.

The deployment of EMC Isilon infrastructure drives innovative Computer Aided Engineering workflows and has resulted in the acceleration of Range Rover Evoque quality design.

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Quick scale-out to meet Big Data challenges

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Maximizes design process efficiency and collaboration while reducing costs

MANAGING BIG DATA

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Accelerates time to market

performance, robustness, and effective scale-out technologies. Seamless scalability

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Robust, accurate backup and recovery processes protect vital data while minimizing workflow disruption in the event of failure

contributed to the efficient Range Rover Evoque design process. Jaguar Land Rover

Jaguar Land Rover chose Isilon due to a number of factors including quality,

virtual simulations generate over 10 TB of data per day, and the company has used Isilon X-Series scale-out capabilities to add capacity to the original 500 TB storage configuration. Over 6 months with Isilon, the HPC environment grew by over 250 percent. Storage capacity increased by over 500 percent, and network management architecture saw a tenfold increase. The company notes that only one vendor could deliver the technology, scale-out architecture, and capability that they required: Isilon.

ACCELERATING TIME TO MARKET WITH BIG DATA The deployment of EMC Isilon infrastructure resulted in the acceleration of Range Rover Evoque quality design. The company notes that virtual simulation programs, driven by EMC Isilon technologies, allow its teams to look at problems in much more detail, easily test new ideas, and make changes faster than ever before. Isilon-driven CAE was used to make the complex challenges presented by the innovative Evoque design much more efficient and faster when appropriate, enabling engineers to create spatial images and resolve challenges prior to prototyping—which also significantly reduced costs. Because the teams could quickly access the hundreds of TBs of design iterations on the EMC Isilon system, they could turn around new ideas in a matter of days, and see new designs prior to prototyping. Jaguar Land Rover explains that its Isilon-driven CAE environment has become a substantive enabler to the business. In the past, engineers would design a vehicle and then simulate it. Now, Jaguar Land Rover is doing simulations in the early phases, even before some of the design and geometric data has been created.

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IT now facilitates the entire virtual design process for the vehicle programs, providing environments to view data even when the jobs are actually running. The team can consume and view information in real time to understand where that simulation is going and decide whether they need to take any corrective action. Jaguar Land Rover notes that it is also enjoying significant savings due to power consumption efficiencies provided by EMC Isilon.

RELIABLE, HIGH-PERFORMANCE BACKUP AND RECOVERY Having deployed Isilon NL-Series at its remote site, together with SyncIQ, Jaguar Land Rover has also created a robust backup and recovery capability to protect hundreds of TBs of critical data. Jaguar Land Rover notes that by partnering with Isilon, it has created a primary cluster, a mainline cluster, and an offsite backup environment in order to protect vital data. Jaguar Land Rover’s HPC environment, driven by EMC Isilon, has helped to change the way the company approaches product development.

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