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Formula One (F1) recently held its annual Grand Prix race in Austin, Texas. I attended the event, was given a “behind-the-scenes” tour of the McLaren F1 Team’s garage, and spoke with Dan Keyworth, Director of Business Technology at McLaren Racing, and Cisco executives responsible for the partnership. The media tour gave us a first-hand look at the complexity of getting the cars and drivers ready for a race and the role of data and connectivity.
While Cisco has many relationships with various leagues and sports teams, the McLaren one is the most complete partnership as the organization leverages Cisco’s networking and security technology and Webex, as well as the recently acquired Splunk observability platform. The relationship with Cisco is multi-faceted, and Splunk was the first leg, although it long predated the acquisition by Cisco. The partnership with Splunk started about five years ago. In 2019, the McLaren team met with Splunk as the software engineers led the analysis of suspension data in Splunk. The McLaren team chose Splunk because it handles low latency and high-volume data.
(Credit: McLaren)
Roots of the McLaren – Cisco Relationship
The partnership with Cisco began when McLaren was initially a customer of the company, which eventually transformed into a
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