HP recently announced that the French-owned carmaker Renault S.A. has chosen an HP Utility Services solution to support the development of innovative telematics services for its electric cars.
Renault, through its alliance with Nissan, is the world’s fourth-largest automotive group. Together, Renault and Nissan have made huge investments in the development of electric cars, Lithium-ion batteries and advanced telematics services.
Connected electronic vehicle telematics help drivers to check the car’s electric battery, its charge rate and the location of the nearest electric charging station. They also help provide live traffic update and cloud computing based applications like pay-as-you-drive insurance.
The French carmaker chose HP Enterprise Cloud Services – Utility Services to host its European IT infrastructure and manage its technical applications.
The preconfigured and tested HP Converged Infrastructure is hosted in HP’s highly secure Tier 3 data centre in Grenoble, France.
This economical solution offers highly automated processes that cut the time, cost and complexity of getting Renault’s business-critical new applications into production. Built-in technology refreshes and flexible capacity provisioning ensure that Renault’s IT infrastructure is powerful and flexible enough to accommodate future demands.
Ashton Steyn, Chief Technology Officer and Cloud Ambassador, Enterprise Services – South Africa, HP said
“The combination of HP’s technology and cloud computing services helps us create the innovative, integrated, end-to-end solutions that customers like Renault need to more effectively achieve market, cost and environmental objectives.“
