Lenovo Unveils New Data Storage Solutions to Accelerate IT Modernization for the Age of AI

• Next generation Lenovo AI-optimized storage unleashes the power of data at any scale with 21 new ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile models for enterprise AI, virtualization and sustainability
• New AI Starter Kits for Lenovo Hybrid AI Platform, converged solutions and industry-first liquid-cooled hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliance transform legacy data operations for AI workloads
• Lenovo ThinkSystem Storage Arrays and ThinkAgile SDI V4 Series support faster inferencing, insights and time-to-value with performance, efficiency and resiliency advancements

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) today announced its largest storage portfolio refresh in company history, unveiling new Lenovo Data Storage Solutions that prepare enterprise IT for the age of AI with better efficiency, performance and scalability. Ushering in a new era of AI-optimized storage that propels business transformation, the complete portfolio includes storage arrays, software defined storage (SDI), and new AI and virtualization innovations to flexibly address rapidly evolving data operations. Using the solutions, businesses can easily run AI and data modernization workloads on the next generation of trusted Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile infrastructure, unleashing data to power real-time reasoning and confidently deploying AI and data modernization workloads at scale.

As business leaders seek tangible ROI on AI investment, global IDC research commissioned by Lenovo found that data sovereignty, compliance, and availability are the most important AI implementation success factors among CIOs while data quality, IT costs and integration with existing systems are among the biggest obstacles. The new portfolio reflects Lenovo’s ongoing commitment to delivering innovative storage solutions that meet the evolving needs of modern data centers while helping businesses get the most out of their data.

“The new Lenovo Data Storage Solutions help businesses harness AI’s transformative power with a data-driven strategy that ensures scalability, interoperability, and tangible business outcomes powered by trusted infrastructure,” said Scott Tease, Vice President and General Manager of Infrastructure Solutions Product Group at Lenovo. “The new solutions help customers achieve faster time to value no matter where they are on their IT modernization journey with turnkey AI solutions that mitigate risk and simplify deployment.”

Solutions for Enterprise AI, Virtualization, and Sustainability​

The portfolio spans 21 new ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile models designed with the accelerated computing and efficiency that companies need to kickstart their AI journey, supporting employee productivity and maximizing value with solutions for enterprise AI, virtualization and sustainability. Key innovations include turnkey AI Starter Kits, the industry’s first liquid cooled HCI appliances and converged hybrid cloud and virtualization solutions. The Data Storage Solutions are finetuned for easy deployment, faster inferencing, workload consolidation and lower total cost of ownership (TCO), delivering enhanced capabilities:

• Lenovo ThinkAgile SDI V4 Series provides full-stack, turnkey solutions that simplify IT infrastructure and accelerate computing for data-driven reasoning and faster time to value for AI LLM inferencing workloads.
• Engineered to put actionable data insights to work more quickly in business operations, the new Lenovo ThinkSystem Storage Arrays deliver up to 3x faster performance while reducing power consumption¹, providing up to 97% energy savings and 99% density improvement over a Lenovo device featuring 10K HDDs for smaller data center footprints and lower TCO and when upgrading legacy infrastructure².
• New converged Lenovo ThinkAgile and ThinkSystem hybrid cloud and virtualization solutions deliver flexible and efficient independent scaling of compute and storage capabilities, reducing software licensing costs up to 40 percent, maximizing business value³.
• New Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series GPT-in-a-Box solutions featuring Lenovo Neptune™ Liquid Cooling leverage the industry’s first liquid cooled HCI appliance to deliver turnkey AI inferencing that takes AI from concept to success across distributed applications, from edge to cloud, yielding up to 25% energy savings over previous generation to increase ROI and achieve data-driven breakthroughs⁴.
• New AI Starter Kits for Lenovo Hybrid AI Platform deliver a validated, flexible, and easy on-ramp for enterprise inferencing and retrieval-augmented (RAG) workflows.

Kickstart the Enterprise AI Journey with Scalable, Pre-Validated Infrastructure

With AI on the rise and the challenge of supporting both legacy and modern workloads, organizations are rethinking how they approach IT. Businesses are moving to a disaggregated infrastructure model, turning compute, storage, and networking into on-demand, shared resources that can adapt to changing needs to boost scalability, efficiency, and flexibility.

The AI Starter Kits for Lenovo Hybrid AI Platform are pre-configured infrastructure solutions engineered to simplify and accelerate the adoption of enterprise AI deployments. The validated configurations, comprising compute, storage, GPUs and networking, are built to scale alongside an organization’s needs. Configured with the AI Starter Kits, the new ThinkSystem Series Storage Arrays deliver unified file, block, and object storage to eliminate data silos and leverage high-performance SSD flash technology for faster time to insight. Additionally, the AI Starter Kits include the new AI-powered autonomous ransomware protection, encryption for greater data protection and synchronous replication with transparent failover to ensure maximum solution uptime.

Powering the New Age of Enterprise AI and Data Modernization

Bringing accelerated computing to the source of enterprise data is critical to business success, and today’s infrastructure must evolve to meet this demand. Enterprise AI projects depend on high-performance storage systems to keep up with the pace and scale of model training, inference, and RAG.

The Lenovo ThinkAgile SDI V4 Series and new Lenovo ThinkSystem Storage Arrays deliver full-stack, turnkey AI-ready infrastructure for enterprises beginning AI implementations while delivering faster inferencing performance for LLM workloads. The offerings are purpose-built for a broad range of enterprise AI and data modernization workloads, from databases, ERP and CRM, to virtualization, hybrid cloud, backup and archive. Primary AI use cases include AI inferencing, RAG, and fine-tuning AI models.

Capitalizing on AI while optimizing virtualization requires a major evolution of storage infrastructure to accelerate data, optimize costs, and secure data assets. New converged hybrid cloud and virtualization solutions deliver flexible and efficient independent scaling of compute and storage capabilities. For example, the new Lenovo ThinkAgile Converged Solution for VMware brings together the enterprise-class features of ThinkAgile VX Series, such as lifecycle management and operational simplicity, with the robust data-management offered by the ThinkSystem DG Series storage arrays to provide a unified cloud platform that is flexible and supports hybrid storage workloads.

Industry-First Liquid Cooled HCI Brings GPT-in-a-Box

In addition to providing the broadest, most open set of data storage solutions, Lenovo now offers the industry’s first liquid-cooled HCI appliance as part of the ThinkAgile V4 series, improving efficiency for high-powered AI workloads and achieving up to 25 percent energy savings compared to previous generations⁴. Using this innovation, the new Lenovo GPT-in-a-box with Liquid Cooling full-stack generative AI solution with Lenovo ThinkAgile HX jumpstarts AI integration using a repeatable solution that lowers energy costs for faster data-powered AI reasoning that delivers faster ROI and innovation anywhere.

Driving the Future of AI Evolution with Enhanced Security and Confidence

Lenovo’s next-generation technology combined with Lenovo Premier Enhanced Storage Support, supports IT teams with tailored expertise and rapid response times, delivering scalability, performance and reliability so organizations can deploy AI with confidence and innovate without the constraints of outdated infrastructure.

“Innovation is embedded in OneNet’s DNA and partnering with Lenovo represents a commitment to modernizing the data center with cutting-edge solutions that drive efficiency and sustainability,” said Tony Weston, Chief Technology Officer at OneNet. “Backed by Lenovo solutions and Lenovo Premier Support, OneNet can deliver high-availability, high-performance private cloud services that our customers can depend on.”

The next generation of Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile solutions are also designed with integrated data security and resiliency features to lower operational risk and provide greater data protection, such as tamper-proof snapshots and software-based encryption. ThinkSystem DG and DM storage arrays feature new AI-powered autonomous ransomware protection, which elevates cyber resiliency by leveraging machine learning models to proactively detect and mitigate attacks.

The Lenovo Data Storage Solutions also feature Lenovo’s XClarity systems management software support, giving businesses comprehensive security features to ensure management, encryption, compliance, and communication for all managed storage solutions.

With the next generation of AI-optimized, integrated solutions, Lenovo is empowering organizations to move quickly to modernize systems while ensuring the future-proofing of tech stacks, so customers across all industries can harness data to transform.

Explore how Lenovo is powering the future of Enterprise AI and Storage at https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/servers-storage.

About Lenovo

Lenovo is a US$57 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #248 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY). To find out more visit https://www.lenovo.com, and read about the latest news via our StoryHub.

¹Up to 3x faster comparing performance of new ThinkSystem DE4800F vs ThinkSystem DE4000.
²Up to 99% density improvement and 97% energy saving comparing ThinkSystem DG7200 to a legacy solution featuring 10K HDDs.
³Calculated software licensing savings based on adding additional storage only with ThinkSystem and not incurring additional core-based licensing costs.
⁴25% energy savings calculation based on using Lenovo Neptune Liquid Cooling on ThinkAgile HX V4 compared to previous generation.

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FAQ

What are the key features of Lenovo's (LNVGY) new Data Storage Solutions?

The solutions include 21 new ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile models, AI Starter Kits, liquid-cooled HCI appliance, 3x faster storage arrays performance, and up to 97% energy savings compared to previous generations.

How much can businesses save with Lenovo's (LNVGY) new ThinkAgile solutions?

The new ThinkAgile solutions can reduce software licensing costs by up to 40% while providing flexible scaling of compute and storage capabilities.

What energy efficiency improvements does LNVGY's liquid-cooled HCI offer?

The industry-first liquid-cooled HCI appliance achieves up to 25% energy savings compared to previous generations.

How does Lenovo (LNVGY) address data security in its new storage solutions?

The solutions feature AI-powered autonomous ransomware protection, tamper-proof snapshots, software-based encryption, and XClarity systems management software for comprehensive security.