It’s all about digital transformation and adapting to the new business normal.
Lenovo Data Center Group (DCG) on Thursday introduced new and updated hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) offers that address the new business normal. The new solutions include technology partners Nutanix, Microsoft, VMware and Diamanti. The company also announced Lenovo Cloud Services.
The vendor’s new normal product strategy responds to accelerated business transformation. This acceleration demands offers that address business resiliency, agility and modernization. This vision also demands adaptation of hybrid cloud and data center infrastructure.
“Customers are looking for choice. They’re looking for flexibility of a different infrastructure solution that gives them maximum value,” Kamran Amini, vice president and general manager of server, storage and software defined infrastructure, Lenovo DCG, said in a product briefing. “Choice is key. At Lenovo, we’re not pushing a single agenda like our competitors.”
More specifically, Lenovo Data Center Group introduced ThinkAgile HX powered by AMD EPYC processors and Nutanix; Lenovo ThinkAgile MX and Microsoft Azure Stack; Lenovo ThinkAgile VX and VMware; and Diamanti SR630 Kubernetes.
The ThinkAgile HX HCI series enables customers to run their virtual desktop workloads and maintain consistent performance in a 1U form factor. And, that’s using up to half the number of servers. Here are some features:
The new Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Azure Stack HCI Edge and Data Center solutions, in collaboration with Microsoft, allow customers to rapidly deploy a hybrid cloud infrastructure.
In collaboration with VMware, the new Lenovo ThinkAgile VX HCI Series aims to improve agility and reliability for SAP HANA database deployments.
Lenovo also announced an OEM On Demand program. This program enables ISV partners to offer turnkey, integrated IT infrastructure solutions to market through their respective brands.
For example, Lenovo, working with Diamanti, introduced Diamanti SR630, available now. This solution is powered by Lenovo ThinkSystem servers. Diamanti specializes in Kubernetes deployments.
The new Lenovo Cloud Lifecycle Services aim to help customers find the right solution as they transition to the new normal. They address workshop and assessment, design and implementation, management and support, and Lenovo TruScale infrastructure services.
So, what does this mean to partners?
“If you think about these new solutions, at the end of the day we are taking out a lot of risk around integration and validation for our channel partners. And, our strategy has always been channel-first,” said Shekhar Mishra, director of software defined infrastructure, Lenovo DCG.
Partners can bring their solutions for a specific environment and add their own services.
“That’s a motion we do see as being very successful,” he said.
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