This global tech company is revolutionizing the way businesses work
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There is an incredible amount of research going into cloud technology right now. But it’s not happening where you think.
While consumer and business software continues to evolve at a rapid pace, the data center technology that houses, secures, and analyzes all of our information is being developed 10 years in advance. And — perhaps surprisingly to some — it’s Lenovo that is leading this development.
Lenovo's multinational tech team is working to predict which products will shape the data center of the future. By building forward-thinking prototypes, they are able to see a decade ahead and forecast exactly what business will need, before they need it.
Today, businesses utilize cloud solutions for their scale, security, and reliability over legacy IT systems. They allow teams to do more with less through remote work, collaboration, and lower capital investment and operating costs.
As this opportunity is realized by more businesses, the dependence on data center technology will grow.
It's this mission-critical service that Lenovo is developing ahead of time. Though the Fortune 500 company may be best known for its laptops, tablets, and desktop computers, these next-generation business servers will shape its future.
Turning data centers into growth engines
What started with the acquisition of IBM’s Personal Computing Division and the success of ThinkPad ultimately sparked Lenovo's drive to enter the world of data storage solutions. And so in 2015, the company acquired IBM’s System X Server Business.
This acquisition formed the basis for Lenovo's drive to turn business data centers into growth engines.
"The way that we're doing digital transactions in the modern world, we can't just grow our business without taking into effect the infrastructure we may have," says Don Frame, Lenovo's North American brand director.
"Is it going to be flexible? Is it going to be agile? Is it going to allow you to move quickly? Is it going to be simple enough to allow you to grow?"
Lenovo's Data Center Group is addressing these questions through a mix of in-house innovation and industry collaboration. In the data center space, the company has strategic partnerships with Red Hat, Nutanix, SAP, and Juniper.
The end goal of these collaborations is to provide turn-key infrastructure for businesses of all sizes and industries. That means building scalable, secure, high-performance systems that will contribute to the pool of available open source software choices.
The team's research to date includes assessing new ways of using virtual desktop infrastructure in healthcare, leveraging data centers to drive business intelligence, and looking at how high-performance computing can accelerate cancer research.
It's all part of what's called "hyperconvergence," which integrates computing, storage, networking and other technologies in a single platform. And the next generation of data centers will be central to that.
Find out more about Lenovo's next-generation data center solutions.
This post is sponsored by Lenovo.