Lenovo has announced a major expansion of its data storage, virtualization and data management services solutions, designed to help customers modernize their IT and data infrastructure, powering enterprise applications and AI-enabled capabilities.
New offerings include new data storage and virtualization solutions Lenovo ThinkSystem y ThinkAgileannounced in conjunction with data management services. Designed to provide a modern foundation for enterprises and midsize businesses implementing AI innovations, this announcement combines hardware, software and complementary services to help deploy, manage and unlock the true potential of enterprise data.
“According to a Gartner survey, 63% of organizations do not have the right data management practices for AI, or are not sure if they do.” Unique customer data is the differentiation that will drive your competitive advantage and more accurate results. However, 80% of storage deployed in the last 5 years is based on slower hard drives (according to IDC reports) that are not optimized for AI. At the same time, customers are facing new virtualization and containerization requirements that demand open solutions. Companies must mitigate this risk ensuring your enterprise data systems and practices are modernized for advanced use cases.
Lenovo ThinkSystem y ThinkAgile
Lenovo says that today, enterprises need the efficiency and cyber resilience of their systems to work in parallel with performance, simplicity and scalability, with the option to deploy on-premises and hybrid so that data remains in place and compliant, while AI workloads run where appropriate.
To this end, the multinational has presented the new Lenovo ThinkSystem and Lenovo ThinkAgile Enterprise offerings optimized for AI, virtualization and storage bottlenecks, which include:
- Lenovo ThinkSystem DS Series Storage Arrays– Easy-to-deploy and manage protected all-flash storage area network (SAN) block storage systems for virtualized environments, improving performance and efficiency for virtualization and data modernization.
- Series Lenovo ThinkAgile FX: Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) offering an open architecture that supports seamless conversion between selected HCI solutions without replacing hardware, providing maximum investment protection and flexibility.
- Series Lenovo ThinkAgile MX for disaggregated storage for Microsoft Azure Local: As a provider of integrated hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliances with Microsoft, Lenovo expands support for disaggregated external Fiber Channel storage area networks (SAN) to provide greater enterprise storage support for virtualization customers.
- Series Lenovo ThinkAgile MX with NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000: Support for next-generation integrated GPU to power advanced AI performance capabilities for enterprise inference with Microsoft Azure Local.
- Series Lenovo ThinkAgile HX para IA: Lenovo’s HCI offering includes the Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) software stack to enable customers operating in virtualized and containerized distributed environments to deploy, run and scale AI models in minutes.
Complete solutions
To help customers take full advantage of the benefits of their new systems and prepare their data for AI, Lenovo is expanding this momentum with a broad portfolio of hybrid cloud and data lifecycle services designed to modernize environments, strengthen reliability, and support changing storage and AI workload requirements.
This portfolio includes the Lenovo implementation services for ThinkAgile and ThinkSystem that help organizations accelerate time to value through more efficient infrastructure deployment, along with a range of storage services that can be consumed individually or through the company’s flexible TruScale model to improve performance, agility and innovation across the entire data storage lifecycle.
To guide long-term strategy, Lenovo offers its hybrid cloud advisory services dedicated to helping customers align on-premises or hybrid environments with compliance, data protection, and operational efficiency. Lenovo Migration Services helps organizations optimize data and workloads by combining the flexibility of the cloud with the reliability of existing infrastructure.
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