Lenovo Hyper-Converged Appliances Powered by Nutanix Software

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions, Pte Ltd and Nutanix, Inc. announced a partnership to develop, market and sell a family of Lenovo hyperconverged appliances powered by Nutanix software.

Converging storage, server and virtualization services into an integrated scale-out appliance helps simplify datacenter management and can drive substantial IT cost savings. Both companies are committed to delivering hyper-convergence infrastructure that enables IT organizations to focus on the applications and services that power, and bring greater agility to their businesses by offering a compelling alternative to public cloud services.

Hyper-convergence combines reliable server platforms with software to build private cloud datacenters that match the agility, scalability and fractional consumption of public clouds. This partnership allows Lenovo to continue its legacy of innovation, commitment to engineering, and vision of how IT will evolve in the coming decade. Lenovo’s reach including in growing markets such as China provides the partnership with an accelerated route to market in critical segments of the industry.

The two companies will introduce a family of hyper-converged appliances built on Lenovo’s enterprise systems, ranked number one in customer satisfaction¹ and reliability², and powered by the Nutanix software. The joint solution, featuring several of the latest Intel technologies, will run nearly all workloads, including enterprise applications, databases, virtualized desktops, and big data analytics, with improved efficiency and scalability.

To take advantage of the growing demand for hyper-convergence platforms, Lenovo is making sizeable investments in a dedicated skilled sales team. The combined solution will also be sold through Lenovo channel partners worldwide, as well as by Lenovo’s broader enterprise sales teams. Additionally, Lenovo and Nutanix are planning substantial investments in platform engineering and development, as well as go-to-market initiatives.

“Lenovo can bring a new perspective to the global enterprise space. We do not have to protect old ways of thinking or entrenched ideas. Instead, we can build our business on innovation, and partner freely with the most innovative, leading companies in this space to create new solutions,” said Yang Yuanqing, chairman and CEO, Lenovo. “Nutanix’s well recognized technology leadership, paired with our global reach, will enable both companies to thrive by helping customers dramatically reduce complexity in datacenters of all sizes.“

“Lenovo is an undisputed leader in multiple technology markets, and it has earned the trust of thousands of enterprises around the globe with its innovative and high-quality products,” said Dheeraj Pandey, Nutanix founder and CEO. “Partnering with Lenovo is a critical milestone in our journey to bring invisible infrastructure, with the efficiencies of web-scale technology and power of consumer-grade design, to companies of all sizes.“

Lenovo and Nutanix will jointly announce the solutions next month at the Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure and Operations Management Conference in Las Vegas, NV on December 7-9, 2015.

“Enterprises are seeking simpler solutions to solve their storage problems, and Intel is deeply invested in working with data center leaders to bring these solutions to market. We are collaborating with both Lenovo and Nutanix to drive enterprise optimization of server and storage systems based on Intel architecture. The appliances resulting from this collaboration will benefit from multiple Inteltechnologies while delivering easy to deploy solutions to the marketplace,” said Diane Bryant, SVP and GM of the data center group, Intel Corporation.

“Lenovo and SAP SE have worked closely to optimize application workloads for clients on Lenovo infrastructure, and our recently announced partnership with Nutanix brings the ability to run SAP Business Applications on advanced web-scale infrastructure,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, EVP, head of business development and strategic ecosystem, SAP. “Leveraging these relationships, we can collaborate with Lenovo and Nutanix to help clients scale easily and more efficiently to meet demands, allowing companies of all sizes to more fully use their IT investments“

“Nutanix has been a key player in the emergence of the hyperconverged market and was early to demonstrate demand for the technology,” said Matt Eastwood, SVP, International Data Corporation enterprise infrastructure and datacenter group. “This Lenovo OEM partnership with Nutanix goes well beyond typical alliances, embracing joint engineering, marketing and a dedicated sales team. Combined with the global reach of Lenovo, this partnership with Nutanix will accelerate the reach of hyperconverged infrastructure into new markets.“

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¹ Lenovo enterprise servers ranked #1 in customer satisfaction, according to the latest TBR Customer Satisfaction Survey, August 2015
² Lenovo enterprise servers are ranked #1 in x86 reliability, according to the ITIC 2015-2016 Global Server Hardware, Server OS Reliability Report, July 2015