Lenovo completes acquisition of IBM X86 Server at the end of the month to be the world's first

This morning, Lenovo Group held a news conference on cloud Computing in Beijing. Sharp observation has gained a significant message that Lenovo will soon complete its acquisition of IBM X86 servers this month. With regard to this Conference, sharp observation has obtained the following key information points:

1, mergers and acquisitions: Lenovo completes the acquisition of X86 server as soon as this month, announcing next month

During the release today, several sources revealed that Lenovo would announce the completion of the acquisition of the X86 server in October. On this merger, Lenovo Group senior vice president, China and Asia-Pacific emerging market president Chen Xudong to Sharp observation, said X86 server, the significance of the main 2 points. One is to complement the Lenovo server high-end product line, the other is more than 7,000 top talent to join.

Chen Xudong also admits that after announcing the acquisition of X86, he left a small chance for rivals, but now this opportunity is completely gone. According to Sharp observation, since the beginning of this year, wave group launched a corner to dig IBM employees and Rob IBM x86 share of the i2i activities.

However, Lenovo Group vice president, Lenovo China CMO Weijianglei said, from Lenovo Group to understand the situation, IBM x86 server staff turnover rate is not high.

2, the new goal: the impact of Global X86 server market First

In 2012, Chen Xudong the target of Lenovo's enterprise-class business, entering China first in 3 years and the top three in the world. According to Sharp observation, many people were not optimistic about the target.

Lenovo's corporate class has been rapidly upgraded, with Lenovo announcing the acquisition of IBM's x86 business. With a mere superposition of figures, Lenovo has become the first market share in China.

Today, Lenovo executives are again proposing new goals. Lenovo, executive vice president, Enterprise business Group and North American regional president Gerry Smith, proposed that the association will hit the global X86 server market first.

3, Division of labor: He Zhiqiang team and Dongfuyau team

Chen Xudong, Lenovo's cloud computing strategy is divided into two main categories, one is the provider of cloud computing infrastructure, one is to help others provide cloud services. Among them, Dongfuyau's team is mainly to do the former, and old he's team is to provide cloud services. Both sides often go to get orders, and then work together.

4, Layout: New 50 data centers in China

At today's press conference, Chen Xudong announced that Lenovo will build 50 cloud computing centers in China and train more than 1000 experts on cloud computing infrastructure through a strategy called "cloud planning". At the same time, Lenovo plans to build an open China cloud ecosystem and recruit 100 program-oriented channels that focus on cloud computing solutions.

Dongfuyau revealed that the project on the construction of 50 cloud computing centers has been launched, the first cooperative pilot area is Guizhou, and the government of Guizhou is completed.

5, publish Lenovo Thinkcloud

Another focus of today's release will be Lenovo's launch of Thinkcloud. This is a solution to the cloud management platform. The reason for this is that it consulting companies believe that by the year 2016, 75% of it deliveries will be based on the cloud. As a result, Lenovo is speeding up research and development in the solution.