See you in 4 years. Lenovo server The world's first two generations of products

April 15, Lenovo Beijing Research and Development Center held Thinkserver Server Media communication, the media reporters to experience a different kind of Lenovo enterprise-class business trip. In the North Research Center, the author visited a number of Lenovo enterprise-class product testing links, and Lenovo Server marketing, research and development high-level communication talks. The top executives included Wanghuabing, senior director of the Global Server Research and Development center of Lenovo Group's enterprise Products group, and Shai, IPDC product development director of Lenovo Group's enterprise business group. The two executives responded to questions from media reporters about the development of Lenovo's servers.

Left: Lenovo Group Enterprise class business group IPDC product development Director Shai
Right: Wanghuabing, Senior Director, Global Server research and Development Center, Business Group, Lenovo Group

More secure than other manufacturers Lenovo PC transformation

Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM, the three server companies that once accounted for 75% of Intel's chip revenues, have been fading out of sight. With the PC market declining, these three different countermeasures, Dell Privatization, Hewlett-Packard focus on enterprise-level, IBM sold low-end server business, these traditional it giants in the business of the obvious differentiation. Lenovo in the consumer-level market to win the opportunity, and began to impact on the enterprise-level market.

Lenovo in the 10246.html "> acquisition of IBM x86 server, a new reorganization, in the overall structure of the general framework of the situation, the establishment of four business groups: Personal computer, Mobile, enterprise-class, cloud services. The Lenovo will be independent of the enterprise as a business group is clearly a fancy enterprise products high profit and the solution of high-priced value, enough to let Lenovo go farther.

Prior to privatization, Dell reported that its PC business still accounted for more than half of the company, but 30% of its revenues came from services and solutions, which accounted for half of Dell's total profits. Hewlett-Packard, although in the PC and mobile area "up early to catch a late episode", but fortunately its heavy punch is still the core business to the enterprise level, not only merged the traditional personal computer business and print Business department, but also in the enterprise computing services such as business direction reorganization.

Lenovo's enterprise class, by contrast, is a late entry, but it has a high starting point after acquiring IBM's x86 server business, and last year announced its goal of becoming a global server in the enterprise market in 2015. We have reason to expect better performance in the future.

Product, research and development coincide? Dual-line operation is more suitable

Lenovo's existing server products are more than 1-2-way server, which with the acquisition of IBM x86 server has a large number of products coincide. At the enterprise level, Lenovo works with EMC in the storage section, but EMC is relatively independent, so is there a similar solution for servers?

Wanghuabing said that Lenovo will first consider the interests of customers, to ensure that the customer's products, services are not affected. Under this premise, we will consider the independence of the products in the future. The whole strategy for future products will start to think about how to move forward after the acquisition is truly approved.

From Lenovo's acquisition of IBM PC business, we can find some point in time. At that time, the PC-side brand, channel integration took 1.5 to complete integration, so it seems that the server business in the next two years will continue to follow the previous play each run. In other words, Lenovo will not be in the short-term integration of these overlapping products, but the two-line operation, each line its way. Support and purchase of the original product will not change.

and research and development, Wanghuabing more convincing, it is believed that research and development integration is necessary, but not as before the PC business to China's domestic transfer, but in accordance with the objective rules, with the nearest customer, from the relevant enterprises recently, where the most efficient transfer to where. In contrast, back-end development is likely to shift to Asia.

Lenovo Regional Research and development team to do their job

So what are some of the places that Lenovo likes best? Lenovo is currently in the global development layout is very clear, Beijing, Taipei, Brazil, the United States have more than 10 years of industry experience professionals to carry out development work. The Brazilian Research and Development Center is responsible for the development of the software, the U.S. Research and Development Center is responsible for tracking the industry, Technology trends Guide, Beijing and Taipei, the overall research and development work, this way can effectively use the advantages of various places, can maximize efficiency.

Two generations of products after 4 years Lenovo will be on the server first throne

Analysys International predicts that by 2016, the enterprise-class mobile application market will reach 66.63 billion yuan. In recent years, the enterprise-level mobile application market compound growth rate of 65.4%, that is, every three years, the market will expand three times times. From the perspective of research and development, IBM is today's server industry is undoubtedly the first, but Lenovo acquired IBM x86 business, can not simply do a 1+0=1 equation, but also to see the integration of the entire system with Lenovo. According to Wanghuabing, Lenovo needs two generations of products, 3-5 years to integrate IBM's existing resources, plus Lenovo's culture and management methods, in this time to build a industry-class product development team.

Lack of advantage Lenovo is clear

It may be premature to say Lenovo is competing for an international server market, but Lenovo is clear about the advantages and disadvantages of trying to get around the world. Wanghuabing said that in the way two server products, Lenovo has self-confidence to do no more than any competition goods, for the integration and development efficiency is also not lost in international manufacturers. In terms of disadvantage, Lenovo lacks experience in high-end products with four or more roads.

Another disadvantage is the understanding of global customers, product development must be very understanding of customer needs to have a good product output, and this is indeed beyond the current global capacity Lenovo. However, the author believes that Lenovo has not fully advanced to the global market before, it has a full understanding of their own advantages, which can also be designed for the future to lay a solid foundation for better products.