Connecting globally distributed information hubs on a safe, personal infrastructure to accelerate seamless related automotive providers (CCS) worldwide
Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) is deploying its devoted personal cloud platform, HCloud, inside Equinix information facilities globally to boost buyer expertise and enhance service high quality for its greater than 10 million related automotive service subscribers.
HCloud is the Group’s proprietary cloud platform that was developed in response to the rising demand for real-time information processing, seamless connectivity and scalable infrastructure, pushed by speedy developments in related and autonomous automobiles.
The Group is leveraging Equinix Worldwide Enterprise Change™ (IBX®) information facilities throughout Asia, america and Europe, in addition to Equinix Material®, to interconnect HCloud to a number of public cloud suppliers, together with Amazon Net Providers (AWS). This hybrid multicloud structure accelerates the worldwide rollout of related automotive providers whereas making certain dependable connectivity, constant service protection and lowered latency.
Hyundai Motor Group is a world enterprise that includes the mobility manufacturers—Hyundai Motor, Kia and Genesis. The Group’s CCS offers in-car infotainment and cellular functions by way of wi-fi networks. Since its launch in 2003, the Group has acquired over 10 million world CCS subscribers as of 2023 and is aiming to succeed in 20 million by 2026. To proceed the progress, it’s making vital investments in the event and enlargement of HCloud to ship enhanced in-car providers, together with a customized driving expertise.
As 95% of recent automobiles are anticipated to be related by 2030,[1] the Group acknowledged the necessity for distributed information processing and proximity to cloud and community ecosystems to make sure a wonderful person expertise. This led to the deployment of the HCloud in Equinix IBX information facilities in Seoul, Los Angeles and Frankfurt, strategically chosen for his or her world attain, provider density and excessive operational requirements backed by service-level agreements (SLAs). Equinix’s proximity to main cloud and community suppliers will allow the Group to attach with key companions, whereas supporting strong efficiency and scalability.
By its deployment at Equinix, the Group has enhanced app responsiveness and improved the standard of its distant providers. The collaboration helps the corporate’s transition to software-defined automobiles (SDVs) and lays the inspiration for smarter, safer and extra related mobility options.
Supporting Quotes
- Youngjoo Han, Vice President and Head of IT Infra Middle, Hyundai Motor Group
“By leveraging Equinix’s world information facilities, we’re offering high-quality related automotive service and enhancing person expertise via lowered latency, secure world connectivity and enhanced scalability of our HCloud platform. The partnership with Equinix is taking us a step nearer to changing into the worldwide chief in related automotive providers. We stay up for persevering with this journey with Equinix to maintain the momentum of our rising related automotive ecosystem worldwide.”
- Chris Jang, Managing Director, Equinix Korea
“The way forward for the automotive business lies in related vehicles. By a hybrid multicloud infrastructure, auto producers can make the most of cloud providers whereas sustaining the flexibleness to decide on between safe, devoted colocation infrastructure and extremely scalable cloud providers for every workload they help. Equinix, with its world footprint, presents not solely the mandatory infrastructure but additionally an interconnected digital ecosystem and network-dense infrastructure. This may allow Korean firms, together with Hyundai Motor, to speed up their digital transformation and optimize the client expertise.”
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