Lenovo and NetApp Form Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Digital Transformation
Published2018.10.25 07:01NetApp Gives Lenovo Its Storage Edge
Launch of the water-cooled ThinkSystem SD650
Sumir Bahati, President of Lenovo Asia Pacific Data Center Group
As the Fourth Industrial Revolution matures and each company actively considers digital transformation, Lenovo held its Transform 2.0 event on the 23rd, following last year's event.
At a press conference held alongside the event, Lenovo announced end-to-end solutions along with new products developed in line with its Intelligent Transformation strategy.
Lenovo aims to help its enterprise customers achieve business innovation through global partnerships. Accordingly, Lenovo has partnered with NetApp, a company known for its strengths in all-flash and unified storage.
Lenovo already had product lines such as SAN, DAS, and tape storage, but they were not very competitive. Therefore, this partnership with NetApp is expected to help Lenovo strengthen its position in the enterprise market, where it ranks third in server sales alongside IBM, after Dell EMC and HPE.
Lenovo and NetApp, in a multi-billion dollar partnership, have launched a complete end-to-end storage and hybrid cloud data services portfolio.
“Lenovo is constantly transforming the data center market with customer-centric solutions. Today’s announcement with NetApp demonstrates our commitment to providing our customers with the best storage and data management products,” said Sumir Bahati, president, Asia Pacific Data Center Group, Lenovo. “Traditional data center product and service development approaches can be transformed by our strategic collaboration with NetApp, empowering customers to realize their own intelligent transformation and drive business success.”
Among the products Lenovo announced that day, the most impressive one was the 'ThinkSystem SD650', a high-density liquid-cooled platform for efficient data centers.
Designed to run the latest Intel Xeon Scalable family processors with up to 28 cores, the SD650 powers data-intensive HPC workloads. It also utilizes 2667MHz DDR4 memory for enhanced system performance. It supports NVMe storage, high-speed EDR InfiniBand, and OmniPath adapters.
The ThinkSystem SD650 is a liquid-cooled platform that reduces data center energy costs. Unlike air-cooled systems, liquid cooling eliminates fans, creating a quieter data center environment. It also has a 50°C hot water cooling function that does not require a chiller, allowing heat reuse for building heating.
The server unveiled today is an ultra-dense server, with a single 6U NeXtScale n1200 enclosure accommodating up to 12 SD650 compute nodes. The enclosure houses up to 24 processors, 9.2TB of memory, 24 SFF SSDs or 12 SFF NVMe drives, and 24 M.2 boot drives, delivering up to 12 more cores per node than the previous generation.
The event also featured an AI demo zone where visitors could experience a virtual reality game that could help patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
“Lenovo is the best partner for many global companies around the world to drive intelligent transformation,” said Shin Gyu-sik, head of Lenovo Global Technology DCG.
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