Dubai: Lenovo has redesigned its data centre line-up, adding new product families, to help businesses transform for the ‘intelligence revolution’ era.
Chris Cooper, general manager and director of Lenovo Data Centre Group, said the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ will revolve around intelligent transformation and artificial intelligence.
“The enterprises continue to witness the emergence of a small internet era, one where intelligence powered devices continue to extend a new scope of expedited content and services. The demand for data centres comes as the connected world continues to create a deluge of big data,” he said.
He added that the company intends to maintain its leading position in the PC market and become the largest and fastest supercomputing business by 2020, challenging Dell Technologies and HP Enterprise.
There were 23 supercomputers installed in 2015, 84 in 2016 and 92 in 2017 so far.
Lenovo acquired INM’s x86 business in 2014 and is currently ranked second in supercomputing business. The Chinese company is celebrating its 25th year of the Think laptop brand and launched ThinkSystem portfolio based on Intel Xeon Scalable processors and ThinkAgile portfolio based on software-defined solutions.
Cooper said that information technology is no longer IT, it is intelligent technology and intelligent transformation, driven by big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI).
“We are strengthening our offerings in the region 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,” he said.
According to a recent survey by research firm International Data Corporation (IDC), 72 per cent of CIOs and technology leaders cited supporting digital transformation and business growth as the leading rationale in IT infrastructure decisions.
Russell Theron, regional manager for Lenovo DCG Gulf, said there are two supercomputers installed in the UAE.
He said the commercial PC will remain a central component of enterprise computing, but its role is changing. It will continue to keep changing as new apps, services and deployment models change.
In the past three years, he said that 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.
