Lenovo presents a new device under the Think brand and expands the range of services aimed at the business environment

Lenovo today unveiled a new series of devices and services for businesses that support business transformation at Tech World Transform. The new ThinkStation P320 Tiny offers Independent Software Vendor (ISV) certification to ensure that customers’ mission-critical applications run smoothly on an incredibly small device that weighs just one liter. Lenovo’s PC as a Service (PCaaS) offering includes a fully customizable, fixed-price subscription model that combines hardware and services into a single solution. Designed to eliminate the hassle of purchasing, shipping and managing IT equipment, PCaaS improves product lifecycle efficiency and reduces total cost of ownership.

ThinkStation P320 Tiny: the world's smallest ISV-certified graphics workstation

Graphics spaces are becoming an increasingly valuable investment in real estate, so they need to be equally adaptable and performant in any space. The ThinkStation P320 Tiny makes the most of small spaces and delivers the power you expect from a graphics workstation. Easy to configure and compatible with Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny accessories, the P320 Tiny harnesses the power of the latest Intel® Core i processors and relies on NVIDIA® Quadro® Graphics to achieve ISV certification and deliver the performance required by a range of professional applications. Whether it's developing the latest and most innovative products, designing a skyscraper to the highest standards, or educating tomorrow's entrepreneurs, the P320 Tiny provides the performance needed for the business environment in a small form factor, so that graphics workstations can operate at maximum capacity even in extremely limited spaces.

The process of managing IT infrastructure is simpler with PC as a Service

As new generations of tech-savvy employees begin to prioritize device flexibility and mobility in the workplace, organizations are adapting how they approach and manage the technology available in the workplace. The shift toward agile IT, Choose Your Own Device , and multi-device synergy are shaping our future of personalized computing. PC as a Service (PCaaS) responds to this shift by simplifying the financing, shipping, management, and retirement of IT equipment by integrating it into a single, configurable solution with a fixed monthly price. Companies can select tablets, laptops, desktops, graphics workstations, or software and services, giving end users access to a wider range of devices to choose from and allowing capital investments to grow with the business.

“The workspace is evolving, and so is our PCSD division. The Commercial Business Segment was created to provide our customers with innovative solutions and tools to help them capitalize on the transformation brought about by the digitalization of the business environment,” said Christian Teismann, senior vice president & GM, Commercial Business Segment, PCSD. “The ThinkStation P320 Tiny and PCaaS are just two of the tools we are launching to help IT organizations transform. PCs will continue to be an integral part of the future of personalized computing.”

 

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Lenovo launches largest data center solutions portfolio in company history

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Unprecedented performance, reliability and quality are the benefits through which Lenovo supports the transformation of the business environment

Lenovo today launched a portfolio of end-to-end data center solutions at Tech World Transform and ISC High Performance 2017 in New York and Frankfurt, respectively, that enable customers to harness the intelligence revolution and create a strong technology foundation that supports business transformation tools such as data analytics, high performance computing (HPC), hybrid cloud services, artificial intelligence and machine learning. Building on its leadership in customer satisfaction and reliability of x86 servers, Lenovo is introducing the most comprehensive portfolio of servers, storage, networking, software and data center services in the company’s history. At the same time, Lenovo is launching two brands specifically designed to strengthen its leadership in customer satisfaction: ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile.

“Today’s announcements mark the next phase of Lenovo’s commitment to transforming the customer experience in the data center,” said Kirk Skaugen, president of Lenovo Data Center Group. “Our leadership in x86 server user satisfaction and reliability, our new ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile brands, and Lenovo’s new data center solutions portfolio deliver the most reliable, agile and high-performance services in the industry. We are confident that we can empower customers to solve their biggest business challenges and become digital leaders in their industries.”

Future Think: Lenovo Rethinks Future-proof Data Centers  

This year, Lenovo celebrates 25 years of proven quality, performance and reliability under the Think brand, and ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile data center solutions provide organizations with flexible resources that can adapt to changing business needs. According to a recent IDC survey of CIOs and technology leaders, 72% of respondents confirmed that their top IT infrastructure decisions are driven by supporting digital transformation and business growth. Over the past three years, hybrid cloud services have matured substantially, and software-defined architectures and hyperconverged infrastructure have revolutionized the status quo of IT infrastructure in large enterprises. To respond to these changes, customers face challenges, including evolving infrastructure strategies and defining the best way to support that infrastructure now and in the future.

The new, completely transformed ThinkSystem portfolio, based on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, brings together servers, storage and networking under one unified brand that sets the industry standard. ThinkAgile is an entirely new portfolio of software-defined solutions built on Lenovo’s ThinkSystem platforms: adapts to changing IT needs

and, at the same time, reduces the complexity and costs generated by data warehouses in traditional IT systems. Generating even better results when used together, the ThinkSystems and ThinkAgile portfolios enable customers to lay the foundation for a future-proof data center characterized by:

  • Simplicity: Customers often associate technological advancements and advanced IT capabilities with complexity and confusion. The new ThinkSystem portfolio of servers, storage and networking solutions enables customers to address these concerns by giving them the ability to simplify their IT infrastructure. This leads to increased levels of service associated with data center operations, which directly translates into business growth. At the same time, we believe that customers should not base their choice on the fear of being locked into a single vendor or unable to scale technology to meet increased workloads. The ThinkSystem portfolio is designed to seamlessly integrate with any system in which the organization has previously invested, without requiring a complete change to the data center architecture. ThinkSystem combines the best of IBM's Systemx and Lenovo's ThinkServer franchise into a unique solution, based on over 150 global x86 server records: number one in customer satisfaction and number one in reliability.
  • Agility and Flexibility: In today’s competitive environment, customers need to quickly leverage data-driven insights to refine applications, and customer experience is becoming a critical component in a world where companies are struggling to find new competitive advantages in a market where the number of players is increasing. Lenovo’s ThinkAgile portfolio enables integrated solutions to adapt to these changing technology and business needs, delivering the speed, simplified management, and agility of cloud services while preserving the valuable elements of control and governance of the customer’s IT infrastructure. Pre-integrated, pre-built, and pre-tested solutions deliver robust new capabilities for customers’ data centers, including automated lifecycle management, reduced total cost of ownership, and reduced IT resources required to maintain the platform. These solutions include the ThinkAgile SX series for Microsoft Azure Stack, as well as ThinkAgile SX rack-based solutions that integrate networking with hyperconvergence, providing a seamless customer experience. Because Lenovo is not burdened with compatibility with existing networking and storage solutions, customers can be confident that they can move quickly to software-defined systems while benefiting from seamless integration with existing infrastructure.
  • Future-proof: As the pace of technological innovation continues to accelerate, customers will increasingly need the flexibility to adapt to change and the assurance that the infrastructure they deploy today remains relevant for their future needs. We designed ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile solutions, such as the HCP solutions offered by the ThinkSystem SD530, to support diverse operations such as deep data analytics, HCP, artificial intelligence, and the broadest hyperscale environments.

“We have a long history of transformational collaboration and innovation with Lenovo,” said Lisa Spelman, vice president and general manager, Intel Xeon Products, Intel. “The introduction of Lenovo’s new ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile portfolios, designed for Xeon Scalable processors, marks a natural extension of our long-standing commitment to providing customers with industry-leading, reliable data center solutions to support their efforts to harness the workloads brought by next-generation systems, such as artificial intelligence, and deliver world-class service capabilities across on-premises and in the cloud.”.

Availability

The new solution portfolios, Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile, are available since summer 2017.

 

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Lenovo MareNostrum 4 – the largest supercomputer

Lenovo Deploys World's Largest Intel-Based Supercomputer at Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Infrastructure supports research aimed at solving the world's biggest problems

 

 

Lenovo announced at the International Supercomputing Conference 2017 the delivery and deployment of the world’s largest supercomputer using next-generation Intel technologies at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). The supercomputer, called MareNostrum 4, with a processing speed of 11.1 petaFLOPs, will be hosted in “the most beautiful data center in the world,” located in the Torre Girona Chapel of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, ​​Spain, and will be used for a wide range of scientific endeavors, from human genome research, bioinformatics and biomechanics, to weather forecasting and atmospheric composition. This new system, which will continue to be developed in the future, ranks 13th on the latest TOP500 list (top500.org) of the world’s most powerful supercomputing systems.

“The rapid delivery, installation and optimization of the MareNostrum 4 system at BSC demonstrates Lenovo’s strength in end-to-end supercomputing systems,” said Kirk Skaugen, president of Lenovo Data Center Group. “Leveraging 25 years of experience with x86 server systems, as well as our leadership in customer satisfaction and reliability, our goal is to become the world’s largest supercomputing company, helping to solve humanity’s most complex challenges through the rapid advancement of technology and innovation.”.

The system is comprised of over 3,400 Lenovo’s next-generation server nodes, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, interconnected by over 60 kilometers of Intel Omni-Path Technology 100 Gb/s high-speed network cable. This is the third state-of-the-art HPC system Lenovo has deployed within the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE). This makes Lenovo the largest supplier of HPC systems to this high-impact scientific community, reinforcing Lenovo’s position as the fastest-growing supercomputer company in Europe.

“From the lab to the factory to the field deployment teams, delivering a system of this size and complexity requires a higher level of integration and skills,” said Madhu Matta, VP & GM of High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence, Lenovo. “It requires a focus on a holistic customer experience that very few companies are able to deliver.”.

Undisputed global HPC leader 

Since joining the Top500 list in 2014, Lenovo has become the fastest-growing TOP500 vendor worldwide. Lenovo ranks 2nd on the list with 92 mentions and ranks first in supercomputing in China, the largest and fastest-growing supercomputing region in the world, where it has 50% more mentions than its next competitor.

Continuing its mission to provide customers with access to new technology, Lenovo is currently upgrading its Global HPC Innovation Center in Stuttgart, Germany, which is comprised of 6,000 cores of the latest generation of Intel Xeon processors and the latest NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs), interconnected by a range of high-performance nodes from Mellanox and Intel. The HPC Innovation Center opened in May 2015 to collaborate with customers and facilitate their access to the latest technologies, as well as to experiment with the same systems that power the MareNostrum 4 supercomputer at BSC, before they are delivered at scale. The full system upgrade is scheduled to be completed in August 2017.

An example of a collaborative project supported by the Global HPC Innovation Centre is at the University of Birmingham, which has built a branded research centre called the Birmingham Environment for Academic Research (BEAR). BEAR is a collection of IT resources offered free of charge to the university community and accredited external experts, enabling the acceleration of research across a range of disciplines, for example in the life sciences, including genome sequencing, or medical and linguistic research.

“Genome sequencing can help us understand the scale and spread of major epidemics more quickly. When the Zika virus hit the Americas, we were able to respond quickly, transporting mobile sequencing devices to the affected areas and generating DNA sequence data in just a few days,” said Nick Loman, Professor in the Department of Microbial Genome and Bioinformatics at the University of Birmingham. “Comparative genome sequence analysis requires significant computing power and storage capacity. We can instantly access hundreds of CPUs, thousands of GB of RAM and hundreds of TB of storage. This means we can keep up with the rapid generation of data and quickly communicate new findings to the scientific and medical community, contributing to the efforts to stop the spread of an epidemic.”.

Availability

Access to Lenovo's Lenovo HPC Innovation Center is free for all customers with the help of your Lenovo sales representative or partner.

 

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