Lenovo is launching the largest portfolio of data center solutions in the company's history

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

Lenovo launched, during the events Tech World Transform and ISC High Performance 2017, from New York and Frankfurt, respectively, a portfolio of end-to-end solutions for data centers that allows users to capitalize on the digitalization process of the business environment ("intelligence revolution") and create a strong technological foundation that supports business transformation tools such as data analysis, high performance computing (HPC), hybrid cloud services , artificial intelligence and machine learning. As a leader in x86 server customer satisfaction and reliability, Lenovo introduces 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 developed to strengthen its leadership position in customer satisfaction: ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile .

"Today's announcements mark an important day in the next phase of Lenovo's commitment to transform customers' data center experience," said Kirk Skaugen, President of Lenovo Data Center Group. "Our leadership in x86 server user satisfaction and reliability, the new ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile brands, and Lenovo's new portfolio of data center solutions are the most reliable, agile and performing services in the industry. We are confident that we can provide customers with the ability to find solutions to their biggest business challenges and thus become digitization leaders in their own industry."

Think Future: Lenovo is rethinking 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 supporting digital transformation and business development are key IT infrastructure decisions. Over the past three years, hybrid cloud services have matured substantially, and software-defined architectures and hyperconverged infrastructure have revolutionized the status quo of enterprise IT infrastructure. To meet these changes, customers face challenges, including evolving infrastructure strategies and defining how best to support that infrastructure now and into the future.

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

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

  • Simplicity : Customers often think that technological progress and advanced IT capabilities are associated with complexity and confusion. ThinkSystem's new portfolio of servers, storage and networking solutions enables customers to address these issues by giving them the ability to simplify their IT infrastructure. This leads to increased service levels associated with data center operations, which is directly reflected in business growth. At the same time, we are convinced that customers should not base their choice on the fear that they may remain captive to one vendor or that they may not be able to scale the technology in response to a higher volume of business. The ThinkSystem portfolio has been designed to fit seamlessly into any system the organization has previously invested in, without requiring a complete change in data center architecture. ThinkSystem combines the best of IBM's Systemx and Lenovo's ThinkServer franchise into a unique solution based on more than 150 x86 server records worldwide: number one in customer satisfaction and number one in reliability.
  • Agility and flexibility: In today's competitive environment, customers need to quickly use data-driven insights to refine applications, and customer experience is becoming vital in a world where companies struggle to discover new competitive advantages in a market where the number of players is constantly growing. The Lenovo 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 retaining the ever-so-valuable elements of customer-owned IT infrastructure control and governance. Pre-integrated, pre-embedded 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 solutions that integrate networking with hyperconvergence, providing a seamless customer experience. Because Lenovo is unencumbered by compatibility with existing networking and storage solutions, customers are assured that they can quickly move forward on the software-defined system while also benefiting from seamless integration with their existing infrastructure.
  • Adapting to the future: As the speed of technological innovation continues to increase, customers will increasingly need the flexibility to adapt to change and the assurance that the infrastructure they deploy today remains relevant to 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 big data analytics applications, HCP, artificial intelligence, and the widest hyperscalable environments.

"We have a long history of collaboration and transformative innovation with Lenovo," said Lisa Spelman, Intel Vice President and General Manager for Intel Xeon Products. "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 capitalize on the volumes of operations brought by next-generation systems such as artificial intelligence and deliver world-class service capabilities within its own infrastructure and in the cloud”.

Availability

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

 

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Lenovo MareNostrum 4 – the largest supercomputer

Lenovo is deploying the world's largest supercomputer based on Intel technology at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center

The 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 the next generation of Intel technologies at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) research center. The supercomputer, called MareNostrum 4, with a processing speed of 11.1 petaFLOPs, will be hosted by "the most beautiful data center in the world", located in the Torre Girona Chapel of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, 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 (top500.org) list 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 our 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 to help solve the most complicated challenges of mankind, through the rapid progress of technology and innovation".

The system is composed of over 3,400 state-of-the-art Lenovo server nodes based on Intel® Xeon® processors, interconnected by over 60 kilometers of high-speed Intel Omni-Path Technology 100 Gb/s network cable. This is the third state-of-the-art HPC system installed by Lenovo under the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE). This makes Lenovo the largest supplier of HPC systems to this high-impact scientific community, which strengthens Lenovo's position as the fastest growing supercomputer company in Europe.

"From the lab to the factory to the on-site implementation 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. "We need to focus on a holistic customer experience that very few companies are able to provide."

The undisputed global HPC leader 

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

Continuing its mission to provide customers with access to new technology, Lenovo is upgrading its Global HPC Innovation Center in Stuttgart, Germany, consisting 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, with the aim of collaborating with customers and facilitating their access to the latest technologies, as well as experimenting with the same systems that underlie BSC's MareNostrum 4 supercomputer, before of their delivery on a large scale. The upgrade of the entire system will be completed in August 2017.

An example of a collaborative project supported by the Global HPC Innovation Center is at the University of Birmingham, which has built a flagship research center 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, resources that enable the acceleration of research in several disciplines, for example in the field of life sciences, including genome sequencing, or medical and linguistic research.

"Genome sequencing can help us understand more quickly the extent and mode of spread of important epidemics. When the Zika virus hit the Americas, we had the ability to respond quickly, transporting mobile sequencing devices to affected areas and thus generating DNA sequence data in just a few days," said Nick Loman, professor at the Department for Microbial Genome Study and Bioinformatics from the University of Birmingham. "Comparative genome sequence analysis requires significant computing power and storage capacity. We can instantly access hundreds of CPU units, thousands of Gb of RAM and hundreds of Tb of storage space. This means that we can keep up with the rapid generation of data and that we can quickly communicate new findings to the scientific and medical community, thereby contributing to efforts to stop the spread of an epidemic."

Availability

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

 

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