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Figure 16 Virtualization enables test driving new software updates under live conditions.
3.1
The Software Defined Data Center as a Vehicle Backbone
According to Audi CEO, Rupert Stadler, an Audi A3 generates about 25GB of data per hour.
Connected Cars will be generating even more. It will make no sense to process all of the Exabyte’s
of data generated by millions of connected cars in a traditional on-premise data center. Only a
Software Defined approach augmented with resources from a unified hybrid cloud is capable of
scaling fast enough and across the globe. The Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) is one of the
best ways forward when creating a new vehicle backend infrastructure. Only when all
components such as compute, storage, networks and their dependencies are provisioned and
de-provisioned automatically – locally and/or in the cloud – it is possible to provide a highly
available, fault tolerant and scalable vehicle backend. This backend will host real time and big
data analytics systems forming the brain of any service an OEM may offer to the connected car
ecosystem. One of the prevalent services will be preventive maintenance information. An
example where this was first used is the aviation industry where GE uses Pivotal’s8 BigData suite
8https://pivotal.io
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