Lenovo and Weka Together

Lenovo Group Ltd. and Weka IO Ltd announced a global agreement focused on offering solutions for next-gen data management architectures and performance-intensive workloads for delivery in more than 160 markets WW.

These comprehensive solutions will accelerate AI and analytics for high-performance workloads, including finance, genomics, life science, M&E applications around the world, by speeding time to insights while reducing associated costs.

Modern data management solutions need to be reliable, security-enhanced, and able to meet the performance and scalability demands of next-generation workloads. As part of Lenovo’s expanding data management investments and momentum, Lenovo will combine Weka’s high-performance, hybrid cloud data platform software with its ThinkSystem servers to deliver a powerful, high-performance and scalable data management solution for AI and data analytics.  

The new ThinkSystem SDS Ready Nodes with Weka Data Platform software will provide the industry’s broadest configuration choices, offering customers the option to choose from the latest generations of Intel and AMD processors, NVIDIA GPUs, NVMe drives, and fast networking selections. Validated Weka Ready Node systems can be quickly deployed for all scale-out workloads simplifying deployment and eliminating risk resulting in a faster time to production.

“We use Lenovo ThinkSystem servers with Weka Data Platform software as the foundation for our high-performance computing environment for the processing of sensitive data,” said Dr. Roberto Fabbretti, Ph.D., director of the computing and research support Division, University of Lausanne. “The processing of medical or sensitive data is subject to increasingly stringent legal and technical constraints. We find these 2 partners to be particularly attentive to these issues and are among the few providers of products that can combine very high performance with strong data security. These types of platforms form the powerful, scalable, reliable, and secure data infrastructure that underpins SENSA, our next-gen data processing and analytics platform, which is accelerating biomedical research and discovery throughout Switzerland.”

The combined solution is architected to simplify scale while delivering leadership quality uptime, and performance. Equipped with the Weka-integrated ThinkSystem SDS Ready Nodes, enterprises can leverage hybrid on-premises and cloud resources for cloud bursting and scaling. 

“As a global top five storage provider, Lenovo is committed to empowering intelligent transformation and accelerating the new era of IT through deep collaboration with the new scalable data management solutions,” said Kamran Amini, VP and GM of server and storage, Lenovo infrastructure solutions group. “This partnership is an important next step in enabling more customers to seamlessly leverage AI, analytics, and ML to advance their businesses and help solve humanity’s greatest challenges.”

“Lenovo’s industry-leading servers perfectly complement WEKA’s high-performance data platform software. Together, they deliver the robust, highly scalable, performant, and secure foundation that performance-intensive workloads require,” said Jonathan Martin, president, Weka. “For organizations looking to innovate or power research and discovery with AI, ML, and HPC, this solution promises to be transformative. We are thrilled to be working with Lenovo to deliver it to customers in over 160 countries WW.”

ThinkSystem SDS Ready Node solutions tested, optimized and certified with the Weka Data Platform include the ThinkSystem SR630 V2, SR635 V2, SR650 V2 and SR655 V2. With Weka software licensing available for purchase through Lenovo, the validated Ready Node systems can be quickly deployed for all scale-out workloads simplifying deployment and eliminating risk resulting in a faster time to production.