Building on Lenovo’s No. 1 position in customer satisfaction* and server reliability for x86 servers**, Lenovo introduced its largest, most comprehensive portfolio of server, storage, networking, software and data center services, as well as a new set of brands poised to take this leading position in customer satisfaction to even greater heights: ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile.
“Today’s announcements mark a significant day in the next phase of Lenovo’s commitment to advancing the data centre customer experience,” said Kirk Skaugen, President of Lenovo Data Center Group. “Our leadership in x86 server customer satisfaction and x86 server reliability, along with these new ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile brands, and Lenovo’s new portfolio of data centre solutions represent the most reliable, most agile, and highest performing data centre solutions in the industry. We are confident we can empower our customers to solve their most challenging business problems and become digital disrupters in their own industries.”
This year, Lenovo celebrates 25 years of proven Think quality, performance and reliability. The Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile data centre solutions provide organisations with resources that adapt to evolving business needs. According to a recent IDC survey of CIOs and technology leaders, 72% of respondents cited supporting digital transformation and business growth as the leading rationale in IT infrastructure decisions***.
In the past three years, hybrid cloud significantly matured, while software defined architectures and hyperconverged infrastructure have disrupted the status quo for IT infrastructure in larger businesses. To respond to these changes, customers face challenges including evolving their infrastructure strategies and considering how to best enable them for the long term.
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| The advantages for the new ThinkSystem brand. |
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| The advantages for the new ThinkAgile brand. |
The new completely redesigned ThinkSystem portfolio, based on Intel Xeon Scalable processors, is now part of a single unified brand spanning servers, storage and networking systems. ThinkAgile is a completely new software-defined solutions portfolio built on the foundation of Lenovo ThinkSystem platforms: it adapts to changing IT needs while reducing complexity and cost created by silos in traditional IT. Even better together, the ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile portfolios empower customers to create the foundation of a future-defined data centre with:
Simplicity
The new ThinkSystem portfolio of servers, storage and networking solutions enables customers to increase service levels of data centre operations that tie directly to business growth. The portfolio works seamlessly with existing investments, without forklift upgrades. ThinkSystem combines the best of the Systemx from IBM heritage with the Lenovo ThinkServer franchise into a single solution built on a history of more than 150 worldwide record x86 server benchmarks: No. 1 in customer satisfaction and No. 1 in reliability.
Agility and flexibility
With the Lenovo ThinkAgile portfolio, integrated solutions adapt to changing IT and business needs by delivering the speed, simplified management and agility of cloud services while retaining the control and governance of on-premises IT. Pre-integrated, prebuilt and pretested offerings deliver robust new capabilities to customers’ data centres, including automated lifecycle management, decreased TCO and reduced need for IT resources to maintain the platform.
These solutions include the ThinkAgile SX series for Microsoft Azure Stack, as well as the ThinkAgile SX rack level solutions that integrate networking with hyperconverged offerings. Lenovo executives stressed that the company is not encumbered by legacy solutions, allowing customers to move full-speed ahead on software-defined adoption, while seamlessly integrating with their legacy investments.
Future-proofed
ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile solutions, such as the ThinkSystem SD530 high-performance computing offering, support workloads spanning large data analytics applications to high performance computing, AI and the largest hyperscale environments.
“We have a rich history of collaboration and transformative innovation with Lenovo,” said Lisa Spelman, VP and GM, Intel Xeon Products at Intel. “The introduction of Lenovo’s new ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile portfolios, designed for Intel’s Xeon Scalable processors, is a natural extension of our longstanding commitment to providing customers with reliable, industry-leading data centre solutions that will support customers as they look to capitalise on next-generation workloads like AI and deliver world class service capability on-premises and in the cloud.”
Interested?
Read the TechTrade Asia blog posts about Lenovo's new solutions-based strategy,
the 42 new world record benchmarks achieved by the ThinkSystem family, and
Lenovo's focus on AI
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*2H16 Corporate IT Buying Behavior and Customer Satisfaction Study, TBR; December 2016.
**2016-2017 Global Hardware, Server OS Reliability Report, ITIC; October 2016.
***IDC, Digital Transformation: Impact on the Datacenter — Are You Ready?, Doc #DR2017_T4_LD
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