Lenovo Helps Customers Harness “Intelligence Revolution” With the Launch of Largest Data Center Portfolio in its History

SINGAPORE – August 3, 2017 – Today, at TRANSFORM, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR:
LNVGY) unveiled an end-to-end data center portfolio that enables 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. Building on Lenovo’s number one position in customer
satisfaction[1] and server reliability for x86 servers[2], Lenovo introduced its largest, most
comprehensive portfolio of server, storage, networking, software and data
center services, as well as a new set of brands poised to take this leading
position in customer satisfaction to even greater heights: ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile.

“Today’s announcements mark a significant day
in the next phase of Lenovo’s commitment to advancing the data center customer
experience,” said Kirk Skaugen, President of Lenovo Data Center Group. “Our
leadership in x86 server customer satisfaction and x86 server reliability,
along with these new ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile brands, and Lenovo’s new
portfolio of data center solutions represent the most reliable, most agile, and
highest performing data center solutions in the industry. We are confident we
can empower our customers to solve their most challenging business problems and
become digital disrupters in their own industries.”

This year, Lenovo celebrates 25 years of
proven Think quality, performance and reliability, and 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.[3] In the past three years, hybrid cloud
significantly matured, while software defined architectures and hyperconverged
infrastructure have disrupted the status quo for IT infrastructure in larger
businesses. To respond to these changes, customers face challenges including
evolving their infrastructure strategies and considering how to best enable
them now and for the future.

The new completely redesigned ThinkSystem
portfolio, based on Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, brings the gold-standard
for the industry under a single unified brand spanning servers, storage and
networking systems. ThinkAgile is a completely new software-defined solutions
portfolio built on the foundation of Lenovo ThinkSystem platforms: it adapts to
changing IT needs while reducing complexity and cost created by silos in
traditional IT. Even better together, 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. At the same time, we believe
customers shouldn’t have to choose between certain technologies for fear of vendor
lock-in or the inability to scale technology as workloads change. We engineered
the ThinkSystem portfolio to work seamlessly with an organization’s previous
investments, without the need to completely re-architect the data center.
Customers can start fresh, without starting over. ThinkSystem combines the best
of the Systemx from IBM heritage with the Lenovo ThinkServer franchise into a
single solution built on a history of more than 150 worldwide record x86 server
benchmarks: number one in customer satisfaction and number one in reliability.

·  Agility and Flexibility: In today’s competitive environment,
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. With the Lenovo ThinkAgile portfolio, integrated
solutions adapt to these changing IT and business needs by delivering the
speed, simplified management and agility of cloud services while retaining the
much-valued control and governance of on-premises IT. Its pre-integrated,
pre-built and pre-tested offerings deliver robust new capabilities to
customers’ data center, including automated lifecycle management, decreased TCO
and reduced need for IT resources to maintain the platform. These solutions
include the ThinkAgile SX series for Microsoft Azure Stack, as well as the
ThinkAgile SX rack level solutions that integrate networking with
hyperconverged offerings for a seamless customer experience. And because Lenovo
is not encumbered by legacy network and storage solutions, customers have the
confidence that they can move full-speed ahead on software-defined, while
seamlessly integrating with their legacy investments.

·  Future-Proofed Preparation: With the pace of technology innovation
continuing to accelerate, customers will increasingly require the flexibility
to adjust to changes and ensure the infrastructure they implement today stays
relevant for their future needs. We designed the ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile
solutions, such as the ThinkSystem SD530 high-performance computing offering to
support workloads spanning large data analytics applications to high
performance computing, artificial intelligence and the largest hyperscale
environments.

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 Intel Xeon
Platinum processor family – to Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). The BSC
MareNostrum 4 supercomputer, tasked with jobs in science and engineering research,
incorporates 48 racks with more than 3,400 nodes with next generation Intel
Xeon processors and a central memory of 390 Terabytes. Its peak power will be
over 11 Petaflop/s, allowing the center to test and analyze the performance of
the most recent developments in the field of supercomputing.

“The newly launched x86 ThinkSystem platform
provides us with ten times more processing power than the previous MareNostrum
supercomputer, allowing BSC to continue the type of scientific research that
enhances humanity’s efforts to seek new knowledge and drive progress. Our
experience with Lenovo has been easy and tightly integrated to overcome our
challenges and achieve success, and we look forward to future
collaboration,” said Sergi Girona, Operations Director, BSC.

“We have a rich history of collaboration and transformative innovation with Lenovo,” said Lisa Spelman, Vice President and General Manager of Intel Xeon Products at Intel. “The introduction of Lenovo’s new ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile portfolios, designed for Intel’s Xeon Scalable processors, is a natural extension of our longstanding commitment to providing customers with reliable, industry-leading data center solutions that will support customers as they look to capitalize on next-generation workloads like artificial intelligence and deliver world class service capability on-premises and in the cloud.”

The new portfolio of Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile solutions is currently available since 11 July 2017.

More information about Lenovo’s ongoing work with Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is available here.

[1] 2H16 Corporate IT Buying Behavior and Customer Satisfaction Study, TBR; December 2016.