Lenovo's cloud computing opportunity: Building 50 cloud computing centers in China

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After acquiring the IBMx86 server, Lenovo also began to exert a new market of cloud computing and enterprise-class business as the representative.

December 1, the reporter in Shanghai held Lenovo enterprise-class solution tasting learned that, after the acquisition of the IBMx86 server and the Moto mobile business, Lenovo strengthened its end-to-end (front-end user layer) Integration Services capabilities, and enterprise-class related business revenues accounted for 3% from 3 years ago. Rose to 15% this year.

When Hewlett-Packard and Dell have transformed the enterprise-class business, Lenovo has quietly occupied the dominance of the PC market and has continued to rise against the trend for several quarters. Lenovo has proposed a plan to build 50 cloud computing data centers at home, as the Giants have done their own cloud computing layouts and People's topic has begun to shift from cloud computing to new hotspots. Where is the opportunity for Lenovo?

"End-to-end" as a strategic layout of the fashionable vocabulary

The change of the meaning of a group of English abbreviations embodies the thinking of the old hardware manufacturers Lenovo transformation.

In the interpretation of the business customer value system, Lenovo has put forward a CEMS1.0 concept, the four English initials representing C cost, e-efficiency (efficiency), M-Management (Management) and S-Safety (security), It is obviously the color of the industrial production era.

This September, the company upgraded the value system to 2.0, but it represents a shift in the meaning of C-cloud computing (Cloud), E-Enterprise Applications (Enterprise), M-Mobile interconnection industry Applications (adroit), and s-it Service (services), More Internet thinking than the 1.0 version. Accordingly, Lenovo has released the cloud plan, targeting the cloud infrastructure leader.

Vice president of Lenovo Group, Yeming, general manager of SYSTEMX and pure systems China, told reporters that Lenovo's enterprise-class business had achieved very strong growth over the past period, reaching more than 35% per cent, and that mobile devices and cloud services had accounted for 15% of the group's revenue, compared to three years ago only 3%~4 %, "I believe that with the SYSTEMX will have a better development." ”

2014, "from end to end" become the strategy of Internet companies hot words, Ma Yun earlier this year to "from end to end", is against Ali previously relatively not good at the mobile end layout said, supporting its front-end a series of mobile applications, is the back-end of cloud computing and large data.

Earlier, Huawei also proposed an end-to-end strategy for data Center network solutions, from the data center interconnection, disaster recovery backup, security, management and other perspectives to provide users with one-stop service.

And Lenovo's end-to-end strategic thinking is to integrate its business resources, the front-end to provide by the PC, mobile devices, applications and other components of the direct face of the customer system, the backend is around the cloud computing for IT infrastructure construction. Obviously, the acquisition of the Moto Mobile and IBMx86 server business will enrich the layout of the front and back ends.

Lenovo Cloud Computing Center for global layout

At present in the domestic cloud computing market, there are Aliyun, Tencent Cloud and Baidu and other internet giants, the layout of traditional telecom operators, there are domestic hardware manufacturers Huawei, the tide of the figure, but also Kingdee, Ufida and other software service providers, including Ucloud, Qingyun and other start-up companies, plus the Amazon, Microsoft and other international giants in various ways into the Chinese market, competition gradually heating up, leaving the transformation of Lenovo in the opportunity?

Yeming said Lenovo will continue to strengthen its overall strength in the field of large data centers (HyperScale) while exerting its cloud computing infrastructure and services. Lenovo and domestic accounted for the highest Aliyun between the strategic partnership, Lenovo in the basic hardware, server and customer base areas have the advantage, and Aliyun form a good match.

Prior to that, Lenovo put forward three superposition strategy, simply said that the first layer on the PC overlay mobile end, the second layer is cloud computing storage, that is, enterprise-class business, the third tier is the application of cloud service provider software. At the third level, Lenovo's collaboration with ISVs (independent software developers) will become more frequent.

Lenovo will build 50 cloud computing centers in China, according to Lenovo's plan. Yeming to the "first financial daily" reporters that the location of these data centers are currently planning, will be mainly in the eastern region, but also in response to the country's western policy, in the western region has a layout.

In addition to hardware architecture, Lenovo plans to recruit 100 project-oriented channels with cloud computing as its focus, and to train more than 1000 experts on cloud computing infrastructure.

According to the reporter learned that Lenovo's data center is not limited to the domestic market, but also in North America, Germany to carry out the layout. At present, the domestic cloud leader Alibaba in addition to Hangzhou, Qingdao, Beijing, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, the establishment of data centers, but also in North America and other geographical layout, the competition into the internationalization.

"Lenovo Group has now accounted for nearly 60% per cent of its revenues in overseas markets except China. Ding, general manager of the Shanghai region of Lenovo Group in China, told reporters that in 2004 Lenovo's business in China accounted for 95%, and IBM's PC business accounted for about 55% of the business in China, and overseas markets will become an important part of Lenovo's transition to an enterprise level.