Lenovo teamed up with EMC to expand x86 server into industry top three

Recently, the major server manufacturers frequently, Lenovo company is also struggling to move forward. The "South China Morning Post" website reported May 25 that IT industry giant Lenovo said it was not necessarily a merger to achieve the company's goal of becoming the top three in the global server industry within three years. Lenovo CFO Wong points out that the company is working with its partner, EMC (Information Storage information technology), to reach that goal at an early date.

"Lenovo-EMC Global Strategic Partnership" is committed to jointly develop x86 industry standard servers, which are marketed by Lenovo and are gradually embedded in EMC's portfolio of storage solutions for global customers. Last August, Lenovo joined with EMC to develop next-generation x86 servers. Lenovo expects its first products to be launched within 2 years. Wang Weiming points out that Lenovo needs longer development time to launch x86 servers than smartphones.

Earlier, the city of Lenovo proposed to 4 billion U.S. dollars, http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/10246.html "> acquisition of IBM's low-end server business x86. Lenovo CEO Yang said there would be a suitable opportunity for mergers and acquisitions, but did not respond to the recent Lenovo acquisition of IBM server business rumors. The source said: "The current acquisition of IBM low-end server business negotiations slow progress, mainly in the price of the two sides have not agreed." Some reports speculate that the business is worth about $5 billion trillion. But Wang Weiming said it would not use acquisitions as a major tool to plan for growth. Wong said there was "no limit" when considering the size of the acquisition target, but he declined to talk about detailed acquisitions and said he would consider those with "reasonable value".

IDC, a market-research firm, forecasts that the global x86 server business will cost $39.5 billion trillion this year, compared with $38.2 billion last year. Rajnish Aurora, deputy director of the IDC Enterprise Server Research Department, noted that Lenovo's share of the global x86 server market was only 1% last year.

With the development of mobile computing and large data, the methods of data storage and computing in traditional data centers have changed. Lenovo needs EMC's products to complement its enterprise-class solutions, and EMC needs a solid server partner. and storage and server reciprocity will make Lenovo in the server business to go in the long run. It is reported that the server market three big giants are Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM respectively.