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| Work Detail | Back in 2014 Lenovo renamed its Enterprise Business Group to the Data Centre Group (DCG) to focus better on this high-potential market. It has had some solid results in a relatively static hardware market by pursuing strategic partnerships with SAP, Nutanix, Juniper, and Red Hat. “Lenovo is SAP’s largest partner with more than 52% of SAP installations running on Lenovo hardware. Our latest collaboration is with SAP HANA on Lenovo X6 systems,“ said Sumir Bhatia, Lenovo’s vice-president of Data Centre Group (DCG) for Asia-Pacific. “Nutanics is leveraging our hyper-converged infrastructure to deliver a simplified, cost-effective solution that helps lower total-cost-of-ownership and enables SMBs to focus less time on infrastructure management,” he added. iTWire interviewed Bhatia, and it is clear he takes his responsibility seriously for driving aggressive growth across the company’s compute, storage, networking and services offerings in this fast-growing region. The interview is paraphrased. Before joining Lenovo, Bhatia built an exceptional track record in Asia Pacific leadership roles at Dell, Nortel, and HCL Technologies, Thakral Group and Motorola JV. He has a Bachelor of Engineering and Computer Science from the BMS College of Engineering, India. He is based in Singapore. Lenovo is currently number three worldwide in data centre solutions and infrastructure. There is small growth in traditional server hardware but a phenomenal growth in making better use of the data centre via things like software-defined storage, hyper-convergence (where storage, computer and management layers are all in one appliance), and partner solutions where Lenovo takes on the full support of the hardware and the solution. Hyper-convergence is growing at 60% per annum per annum. Its Nutanix HX 2000 offering offers SMB customers ease of install, deployment, management and cost control. We touched on the Juniper partnership. Juniper is a market leader in networking innovation with its comprehensive portfolio of routers, switches, network management software, network security products and software-defined networking technology. The partnership is expected to enable customers to leverage Juniper’s strengths in networking and Lenovo’s recognised leadership in x86 server reliability and networking access to derive manageable, scalable, and simple infrastructure for their data centre. The Lenovo and Red Hat partnership delivers powerful IT infrastructure, automation and management capabilities including Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and CloudForms. Building on an open and flexible ecosystem to integrate easily with existing infrastructures, Lenovo servers, storage and networking combined with Red Hat software deliver a competitive and efficient cloud platform. Bhatia said most investment is in solutions to manage big data, run analytics faster and better, and of course the cloud. Some 67% of Australian enterprises have embraced the cloud, but only 10-15% have effectively harnessed it. He is seeing “cloud repatriation” where the headlong rush to the public cloud is now returning to hybrid – on-premise private, and public to solve issues of security and sovereignty. And the total cost of ownership is not as good as promised so hybrid makes sense – use the public cloud for what it is good at – scalable compute power. And his final comments Lenovo is a key provider of private and public data centre hardware and infrastructure solutions Partnerships – win-win – is what it is all about Software-defined anything on x86 metal is where it is heading – storage like its StorSelect Faster, more energy-efficient servers are need to reduce the data centre footprint and power profile, but there is a lot of legacy hardware out there with years of service left Big Data, Analytics, HANA, Hadoop and large virtualisation projects need new platforms Hyper-convergence, especially for SMBs is a huge growth area Bhatia finished, “With the latest advancements in server performance, software-defined storage, hyper-convergence and rejuvenated networking capabilities, all delivered seamlessly in a partner-centric model, Lenovo is striving to redefine the data centre inside and out.” |
| Country | British Indian Ocean Territory , South Eastern Asia |
| Industry | Information Technology |
| Entry Date | 02 Sep 2016 |
| Source | http://www.itwire.com/data-centres/74551-lenovo-hones-data-centre-offerings.html |
