Lenovo Expands ThinkSystem Server, Storage and Networking Platforms

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions, Pte Ltd introduced a large, comprehensive portfolio of server, storage, networking, software and data center services.

ThinkSystem represents tyears of innovation, by a team of individuals around the globe. It is the foundation for building the next-generation data center solutions.

End-to-End Portfolio
The company launch 26 ThinkSystem platforms encompassing next gen servers, storage and network switches. The platforms span across scalable mission critical servers, rack and tower servers, dense optimized, and blade servers, mid-range and AFA storage, and FC and Ethernet network switches. ThinkSystem is engineered to reliably and safely deliver demanding workloads such as real-time analytics, DevOps application services, and software-defined storage services.

This portfolio offers options for every customer data center workload while improving ease-of-use, accelerating certification time, and minimizing training.

ThinkSystem XClarity Controller
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The ThinkSystem portfolio utilizes the next-generation XClarity Controller, a system management tool that delivers an intuitive interface to help automate management needs, reduce operating expenses, and deliver a secure data center foundation. In addition, XClarity Administrator is a software tool with centralized systems management across the entire ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile portfolios, adding centralized configuration patterns and policy-based firmware management to help standardize and scale across the data center.

Platform flexibility
The ThinkSystem solutions, offer flexibility for the demanding workloads. Powerful, versatile rack and tower servers enable a broad set of enterprise workloads, but with better economics. The Lenovo rack and tower servers incorporate a number of technologies that help our customers implement software-defined and hyper-converged solutions such as Nutanix, Inc. and VMware, Inc.‘ vSAN ready nodes from the company.

ThinkSystem SR950

Mission-critical workloads
The ThinkSystem is designed for the demanding, mission-critical workloads such as in-memory databases, large transactional databases, batch and real-time analytics, ERP, CRM and virtualized server workloads. Designed for faster service time and flexibility that allows system customization based on workload needs, ThinkSystem SR950 scales from two to eight processors in a 4U form factor reducing operating costs, while never requiring removal from the rack due to easy front and rear access to all major subsystems.

ThinkSystem SN850 compute node

Built for future
For customers who need a dense, expandable platform, the SN850 blade has superior management to run a variety of workloads. It is designed to grow as customer requirements evolve. The SN550 and SN850 are newly designed ThinkSystem blades that can be installed into the company’s Flex System chassis. The chassis was announced five years ago, and will support up to four generations of the Xeon processor, providing investment protection for customers. Flex System is a highly adaptable platform that allows customers to install multiple generational processors, standard Ethernet and FC switches. The ThinkSystem SN550 and SN850 compute nodes will support the Xeon scalable family processor, as well SAS/SATA and NVMe disk drives.

ThinkSystem SD530

The ultra-dense ThinkSystem SD530 dense system is adaptable for customers seeking the power and scalability to drive large, complex environments such as HPC and software-defined offerings. The SD530 and the ThinkSystem D2 chassis is the ThinkSystem entry into the 2U4N form factor. This form factor is experiencing growth in the market due to its density and flexibility. The SD530 is a system that was designed for maximum performance of the processor, with the flexibility of storage, as well as the option to have different IO modules to match their workload needs.

Along with engineering focused on HA, the company also designed ThinkSystem with high-strength platform security technology and processes. With FIPS and NIST compliant encryption and a Trusted Platform Module implementation that builds on industry standards, it ensures that only digitally signed code validated by Lenovo is allowed to run on our platforms. Additionally, the Lenovo Trusted Supplier program provides security processes across company’s entire supply chain have allowed to achieve a tier 3 level of security as awarded by the US Department of Homeland Security.

ThinkSystem DS Series Storage

The ThinkSystem DS Series of products is an entry into mid-range all-flash and hybrid SAN storage solutions that are application-optimized for performance and scalability. Rapid Technology innovations give customers fast, intuitive and affordable storage solutions. With the excellent price/performance, setup in less than 15 minutes, a common GUI, and five 9’s of availability, customers can implement the DS Series with confidence.

ThinkSystem DB Series

The ThinkSystem DB Series of products increases performance, network scalability, and operational stability with the latest Gen6 FC technology. With pay-as-you-grow technology, customers can integrate into new and existing environments, while adapting to new business requirements.

ThinkSystem RackSwitch family

The ThinkSystem RackSwitch provides flexible networking for future-defined data centers. These open, interoperable products have intelligent networking optimized for virtualized environments. Cloud-scale, cost-effective Ethernet switches accelerate the deployment of hybrid cloud data centers for our customers. Network Telemetry combined with firm’s SDN controller delivers actionable analytics, proactive network visibility and management. With a modern cloud OS that is integrated with a growing ecosystem of applications and DevOps tools, customers will experience reduced OPEX and more agile data center operations.

The ThinkSystem portfolio provides performance, flexibility and reliability.