Dubai - MENA Herald: Lenovo Middle East and Turkey and Africa (META) today announced its new regional business strategy that is aimed at helping regional businesses transform for the “Intelligence Revolution” era.
The announcement comes as enterprises continue to witness the emergence of a smart internet era, one where intelligence powered devices continue to extend a new scope of expedited content and services, from smartphones and TVs to virtual reality and robotics. According to IDC’s Worldwide Semiannual Internet of Things Spending Guide, the Middle East and Africa (MEA) internet of things (IoT) market is forecast to grow 19.6% year on year in 2017 to total $7.8 billion driven on the need for intelligence driven products and services to succeed in an increasingly competitive environment and meet customer demand for improved workflows, enhanced service delivery and overall customer experience.
Building on Lenovo’s number one position in customer satisfaction and server reliability for x86 servers, Lenovo introduced its largest, most comprehensive portfolio of server, storage, networking, software and data center services, in addition to a new set of brands poised to take this leading position in customer satisfaction to even greater heights: ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile. Lenovo’s new end-to-end data center portfolio will enable Middle East customers to harness the power of the “intelligence revolution” and create a strong technology foundation that supports transformative capabilities such as data analytics, high-performance computing, hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Elaborating on the significance of this announcement for the Middle East market, Dr. Chris Cooper, General Manager & Director Lenovo Data Center Group (DCG), said: “Lenovo is proud to strengthen its leadership position in the Middle East with its new portfolio at a time when governments across the region are investing in ambitious transformation strategies to empower knowledge economies and enhance quality of life for citizens and expats. We are confident that these solutions will empower customers to successfully leverage the ‘intelligence revolution’ and unleash the power of transformation for their business and customers.”
Think Ahead: Lenovo Reimagines Future-Defined Data Centers
This year, Lenovo celebrates 25 years of proven Think quality, performance and reliability. Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile data center solutions provide organizations with fluid resources that can adapt to the evolving needs of a business. According to a recent IDC survey of CIOs and technology leaders, 72 percent of respondents cited supporting digital transformation and business growth as the leading rationale in IT infrastructure decisions. In the past three years, hybrid cloud significantly matured, while software defined architectures and hyper converged infrastructure have disrupted the status quo for IT in larger businesses. To respond to these changes, customers face challenges including evolving their infrastructure strategies, enabling them for the present and preparing for the future.
Lenovo’s new ThinkSystem servers achieved 42 #1 performance world records, integrated with the latest Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. The ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile portfolios empower customers to create the foundation of a future-defined data center with:
Simplicity: Often, customers find the price for technological advancement and advanced IT capabilities is complexity and confusion. The new ThinkSystem portfolio of servers, storage and networking solutions allows customers to address these concerns by giving them the ability to streamline IT infrastructure; this leads to increased service levels of data center operations that tie directly to business growth.
Agility and Flexibility: With the Lenovo ThinkAgile portfolio, customers can leverage its pre-integrated, pre-built and pre-tested offerings to deliver robust new capabilities that are essential in a competitive environment where customers must quickly use data-driven, actionable insights to refine applications and the customer experience will be paramount to today’s businesses as they strive to uncover new competitive advantages in an increasingly crowded market.
Future-Proofed Preparation: The ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile solutions are designed to support workloads spanning large data analytics applications to high performance computing, artificial intelligence and the largest hyperscale environments to help customers conceptualize and create infrastructure that relevant for their future needs
Lenovo is committed to delivering transformational experiences for both its customers and the industry and is pleased to announce the delivery of one of the most powerful systems – among the first in the world based on the Intel® Xeon® Broadwell processor family – to a large Oil and Gas customer in the region. The newly created infrastructure supports the largest seismic system in the client’s history, that is tasked with data analysis and is the foundation for 1 PB high performance storage. Its peak power will be over 1,606 petaflop/s, allowing the customer to engage in expedited analysis and determine the location and size of oil and gas reservoirs to make more efficient use of resources and time.