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Lenovo Data Center Group (DCG) announces end-to-end data management solutions allowing customers of all sizes to harness data more securely and efficiently, from edge to core to cloud, with a single set of tools and capabilities for a smarter way forward.

ThinkSystem DM5100F

“Customers continue to face challenges implementing a cohesive data management system to analyze and process data more efficiently,” said Stuart McRae, executive director and GM, storage. “Lenovo’s unique state-of-the-art data management architecture, in combination with the industry’s most reliable ⁽²⁾ ThinkSystem servers, enables customers to accelerate Analytics and AI within a single platform.“

Accelerating data insights and reducing data management costs from Edge to Cloud
The ThinkSystem DM5100F brings high-performance, low-latency all-NVMe storage at an affordable price point, enabling customers of all sizes to enhance analytics and AI deployments, while accelerating applications’ access to data. The DM Series storage systems now include S3 Object support, to create a next gen unified data management platform. This platform allows customers to manage and analyze all data types (block, file and object) within a single storage platform, accelerating the processing of data analytics while reducing infrastructure costs. These enhancements create expanded data protection capabilities, with transparent failover and management of object storage natively. Additionally, with DM Series storage, customers can add cold-data tiering from HDDs to the cloud, or replicate data to the cloud. This enables an economical multi-cloud strategy for storage, reducing the overall cost of data management.

Jolera Inc., a multinational service provider, recently worked with the company to build out their back-end IT infrastructure. It chose DM Series and DE Series to build out their new offering, in combination with ThinkSystem SR630 servers connected to storage arrays.

“One of our first achievements was boosting the de-dupe ratio of our storage solution from 3:1 to 4:1 by simply using the built-in tools in ThinkSystem,” said José Martins, VP, European sales and operations, Joler. “Without question, this improvement will help us contain our storage spend, and we will continue to optimize our data center with tools and guidance from Lenovo.“

To help mitigate data management costs, the company delivers an enhanced ThinkSystem Intelligent Monitoring 2.0 software solution, a cloud-based management platform that uses AI to simplify and automate the care and optimization of ThinkSystem storage environment. Customers can monitor and manage storage capacity and performance for multiple locations from a single cloud-based interface, predict issues before they happen and receive prescriptive guidance.

DB720S FC switch

To accelerate the performance of customers’ applications, the company announces the DB720S FC Switch. It provides 32Gb/s and 64Gb/s storage networking, delivering higher speed and 50% ⁽³⁾ lower latency than previous gens. it delivers autonomous SAN infrastructure with self-learning, self-optimizing and self-healing capabilities, leading to reduced downtime and simplified storage network management.

Bringing affordable and flexible analytic and AI solutions to entry and mid-sized organizations
As AI moves from the realm of research and science to delivering insights and automation for enterprises, the firm is focused on partnering and enabling this value for businesses of all sizes. The company recently collaborated with NetApp and NVIDIA to publish a Reference Architecture for an AI training system. The architecture combines ThinkSystem SR670 servers with Nvidia’s GPUs and ThinkSystem DM5000F All-flash storage, to help take the guesswork out of optimizing an AI platform.

The company‘s data management portfolio, including the DM Series storage solutions, are available through the firm’s TruScale Infrastructure Services.

Additionally, Lenovo and SAP recently announced a OPEX private-cloud service, SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, Customer Edition also available through TruScale.

Resource:
Lenovo’s analytics and AI solutions portfolio and breakthrough HPC and AI solutions building a smarter way forward.

⁽¹⁾ Based on internal sizing using our Lenovo Storage Sizing Tool (LSST) comparing a DM5100F with all NVMe drives and protocol to a DM5000F with standard SAS drives and 16Gb FC.
⁽²⁾ ITIC Reliability Study
⁽³⁾ Brocade G720 Switch

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