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.
