Lenovo and VMware Collaborate to Enable Next-Gen of Virtualized Data Management
Using ThinkAgile VX Max hyperconverged platform and VMware vSAN Max
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on September 8, 2023 at 2:01 pmBy Stuart McRae, executive director and GM, data storage, Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group
In this article, he outlines how ThinkAgile VX Max will be a hyperconverged platform for VMware vSAN Max to help customers simplify and accelerate their data for AI, analytics and virtualized workloads.
As the growth of AI and analytics intersects with enterprise’s virtualized environments, new innovation is essential to managing the complexity and growth of VMware data. The ThinkAgile VX Max with VMware vSAN Max will deliver multi-petabyte storage that can independently scale performance and capacity as your vSphere environment grows. All of this will be delivered with integration and ease-of-use for VMware ecosystems unmatched by legacy solutions.
Need for unified scalable solution
As customers expand their footprint on VMware deployments, the need to consolidate and simplify operations on a broader scale is critical. In Lenovo’s Resilient CIO Global Study in 2023, 64% of customers identified managing increasingly fragmented IT vendors as a top challenge. The growth and scale of virtualized data in customer environments is driving the need for a more unified scalable solution. VMware vSAN Max will deliver simplified operations with a single interface across VMware vSphere storage environments and elastic independent scaling of storage to optimize resource utilization and lower TCO. The ThinkAgile VX Max solutions will deliver a range of all flash-optimized capacity and performance that are validated to be simple to deploy and manage with global advanced enterprise support.
“Lenovo’s partnership with VMware is focused on delivering customer-valued innovation to accelerate business transformation from the edge to the cloud”, said Kamran Amini, VP and GM, server, storage and software defined solutions, Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group. “The Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Max appliances are optimized for VMware vSAN Max to enable petabyte-scale disaggregated storage and faster time-to-insight for our customers”.
Infrastructure solutions portfolio
The 2 companies have collaborated over 20+ years to drive greater customer value, from our hyperconverged infrastructure innovations within ThinkAgile VX and VMware vSAN solution to the formation of our joint Cloud and Edge Innovation Labs to accelerate business transformation from the edge to the cloud. Lenovo’s continued investment in the VMware partnership has garnered recognition including Value Partner of the Year (2022) and Innovation Partner of the Year (2021). The firm will continue to invest in our partnership with VMware to drive the customer-valued innovation to meet the data management needs of our customers.
It is a global full-service solutions provider delivering a infrastructure solutions portfolio addressing a spectrum of workloads and use cases from edge to cloud. Our continued market growth and momentum fuels our investment in in the market. The firm’s infrastructure and data management solutions deliver a broad and open portfolio that are for customer workloads ranging from AI and analytics to a range of data-intensive enterprise workloads. This portfolio and services spans use cases from the edge to the cloud and can be deployed both as Capex (on-prem and co-lo) and Opex (Lenovo TruScale) pay-as-you-go models to meet your business needs.
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