Lenovo Group is marking its 30th anniversary with its largest data-center product launch ever, with greater than 50 new merchandise protecting servers, storage, and edge programs.
Particularly, the celebration is for the ThinkSystem server, and most of the bulletins have been about upgrades.
The following era of ThinkSystem servers and storage, together with the ThinkEdge edge computing machine lineup, in addition to the ThinkAgile household of hyperconverged infrastructure home equipment collectively are known as Lenovo Infrastructure Options V3.
The brand new lineup contains 15 new ThinkSystem servers with both AMD’s newest Epyc or Intel’s Xeon Scalable processors. The brand new ThinkSystems can be found with AI accelerators, and GPUs, DPUs, SmartNICs, and FPGAs.
Lenovo says the result’s efficiency. Lenovo’s scale-up programs can present 70% sooner financial-analytic efficiency and AI modeling and improvement twice as quick because the earlier era of {hardware}, based on Kamran Amini, vp and common supervisor of infrastructure options, group server storage and software program outlined options.
“The brand new V3 programs are all constructed versatile and customizable to have the ability to tackle the smallest buyer base to the most important world cloud service-provider’s wants. They’re designed for the telcos and enormous enterprise and SMB,” stated Amini.
Lenovo is protecting an array of software program platforms with its hyperconvered ThinkAgile servers. The ThinkAgile MX and SMX are powered by Microsoft Azure HCI and Azure Stack whereas the ThinkAgile HX is powered by Nutanix and the ThinkAgile VX powered by VMware vCenter.
The corporate additionally up to date its DE sequence of storage merchandise, that includes all-flash in addition to flash/HDD hybrids. They vary from the all-flash DE6600HF, which delivers 2 million IOPS, to the entry degree 6400 all flash storage answer that may scale as much as 1.8 petabytes for underneath $20,000.
Along with all-flash configuration, the hybrid flash/mechanical drive configurations are versatile and might maintain as much as eight petabytes. This may allow enterprises to begin with smaller capability and add to it as their enterprise grows, stated Amini.
“These new options are additionally focused for brand spanking new software workloads which can be seeing within the trade, equivalent to AI, big-data analytics, and edge computing,” he stated.
To assist handle tdata-center programs, Lenovo has launched a cloud-based service known as XClarity One, an infrastructure-management instrument that handles IT orchestration, deployment, automation, metering, and assist spanning on-premises, edge, and cloud. It manages Lenovo’s on-demand TruScale system deployment, supporting pay-as-you-go utilization of IT tools.
The service allows directors to watch the efficiency of servers and observe {hardware} utilization if they’re utilizing a consumption-based mannequin. Moreover, XClarity One guarantees to ease quite a few frequent infrastructure administration duties equivalent to deploying new tools.
Lastly, Lenovo launched the fifth era of Neptune Direct Water-Cooling know-how. Lenovo obtained the water cooling faith sooner than its opponents and Neptune is a key differentiator for the corporate.
Lenovo launched Neptune for HPC gear, however stated the brand new era can lengthen water cooling to general-purpose computerst. The brand new know-how recycles heat water to chill programs and might scale back energy consumption as much as 40 p.c over older variations of Neptune.
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