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.
