Lenovo Paves the Way for AI Innovation with Modern Data Storage Solutions and Services
Lenovo announced an expansive
series of new data storage, virtualization solutions and data management
services, designed to help customers modernize their IT and data infrastructure
for powering enterprise applications and AI ready capabilities. Today’s new offerings
include new Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile data storage and virtualisation
solutions, announced in tandem with data management services. Designed to
provide a modern foundation for enterprises and mid-size businesses achieving
AI innovations, this announcement combines complementary hardware, software and
services offerings to help deploy, manage, and unleash the true potential of
enterprise data.
“Sixty-three percent of
organizations either do not have or are unsure if they have the right data management
practices for AI, according to a survey by Gartner ®.” Customer unique data is the differentiation
that will drive their competitive advantage and most accurate results, however
80% of storage deployed in the last 5 years is on slower hard drive-based
storage (according to IDC reporting) that is not optimized for AI. At the same
time, customers are challenged with new virtualization and containerization
requirements that demand open solutions. Businesses must mitigate this risk by
ensuring their enterprise data systems and practices are modernized for
advanced use cases.
“With disruptions in enterprise virtualization
strategies and the mandate to make their data ready for the most demanding
workloads, organizations are looking to modernize their legacy infrastructure
with open solutions,” said Stuart McRae, Executive Director and General Manager
of Data Storage at Lenovo. “These new offerings provide the security,
flexibility, and performance to optimize enterprise applications and power
enterprises to extract maximum value from data.”
Flexibility and Choice for Virtualization and Data Needs
Businesses today need the
efficiency and cyber resiliency of their systems to run parallel to
performance, simplicity, and scalability with an option to deploy on-prem and
hybrid so that the data can stay in place for compliance while AI workloads run
where appropriate. Lenovo has introduced new Lenovo ThinkSystem and Lenovo
ThinkAgile Enterprise offerings optimised or AI, virtualization and storage
bottlenecks, including:
Lenovo ThinkSystem DS Series
Storage Arrays: All-flash and protected Storage Area Network (SAN) block
storage systems that are simple to deploy and manage for virtualized
environments, improving performance and efficiency for virtualization and data
modernization.
Lenovo ThinkAgile FX Series:
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) that delivers an open architecture that
supports seamless conversion between select HCI solutions without replacing
hardware, delivering maximum investment protection and flexibility.
Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Series for
disaggregated storage for Microsoft Azure Local: As a hyperconverged
infrastructure (HCI) integrated appliance provider with Microsoft, we are
expanding support for disaggregated external Fibre Channel Storage Area
Networks (SAN to deliver greater enterprise storage support for virtualization
customers.
Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Series with
NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000: Integrated next-generation
GPU support to power advanced AI performance capabilities for enterprise
inferencing with Microsoft Azure Local.
Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series for
AI Lenovo’s HCI offering features Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) software stack to
enable customers running in virtualized and distributed containerised
environments to deploy, run, and scale AI models in minutes.
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