Thinkserver New product Burst high School low-end server full coverage

For Lenovo, 3721.html ">2014 year is undoubtedly a key year." With the gradual completion of the acquisition integration of IBM System X Server sector, as one of the four carriages of Lenovo line of business, enterprise-class business is becoming a new growth point of Lenovo Group. But Lenovo's strategy to buy the ThinkPad was thinkserver, but it was an active anomaly in the x86 brand, after the IBM server brand had been too much of a move since the 10246.html acquisition.

Lenovo recently launched 3 new Thinkserver for enterprise customers, namely, RD550, RD650, and TD350. The first two models are space-saving rack-type server products (1U and 2U) to facilitate the deployment of the room, while the latter is a pair of Intel Xeon Processor Tower chassis server products. The RD550 can hold up to 12 drive bays, up to 26.4TB of storage capacity, and more high-end RD650 support 26 drives with a total capacity of up to 74.4TB.

TD350

TD350 in many ways is similar to rd550/rd650, the most obvious is to switch to the design of the tower chassis. It is equipped with 2 Intel Xeon E5-2600v3 processors as a dual CPU, supports up to 512GB of memory and 90TB of storage (2.5 "/3.5" hard drives), and is fully capable of meeting the needs of SMEs.

RD550

In addition, Lenovo provides a "mashup mechanism" for the two Thinkserver products, allowing customers to place 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch drives at the same time. The two models are equipped with the Intel Xeon E5-2600 V3 processor, with a core number of up to 18.

RD650

Prices for RD550 and RD650 are $1829 and $1929 dollars respectively; TD350 will also arrive soon, at a price of 1629 dollars.

With the rapid updating of the architecture and manufacturing processes, such as RD550, RD650, TD350 This type of x86 in the competition with the traditional minicomputer has been in full win position. But this raises the question of how many server vendors, including Lenovo, can gain differentiated competitive advantages in a homogeneous architecture.

Lenovo is not only a provider of enterprise-class products, but also an IT infrastructure solution provider. Secondly, in the process of good communication and interaction with customers, Lenovo found that more and more customers appear the needs of customized servers, so in the basis of the server design, Lenovo will be in accordance with the needs of customers to do customized development, but also in the overall data center for innovation. And this launch of the three new products can be customized through the customer into small and medium-sized enterprises to provide support.

For the current user IT equipment procurement mode changes, although the current Lenovo is still selling servers, but the way of selling has been completely different, because Lenovo product line in the rapid expansion, with the strategic mergers and acquisitions, in fact, Lenovo can provide complete hardware, consulting is equivalent to play a full range of value. In the future I think Lenovo is not software, but in these areas it relies on an understanding of the needs of the entire customer.

In addition, with the launch of Intel's newest generation of grantly platforms in the second half of this year, Lenovo will be accompanied by an update of the full range of server products, not only in the design of machinery and shapes, but also in customer-focused processing capabilities, IO scalability, and mixed support for SAS hard drives and SSD, Lenovo will introduce new technologies to bring better value to customers.

What are the advantages of Lenovo Thinkserver at the server? The author thinks:

One, the product is richer. Compared to the previous product line, x86 business mergers and acquisitions, making Lenovo in the entire hardware products become extremely rich, the former Lenovo products mainly cover the entire market 39%, after the acquisition Lenovo can meet the overall market demand of 94%, that is, almost from the tower rack, high-density blades to high-performance computing, Become complete, which means a lot to Lenovo, and more choices for users.

Second, and VMware closer cooperation. In virtualization, some international vendors, like VMware, they are in their respective fields, their international leadership is not a bit, almost all manufacturers have to more or less to establish some kind of cooperation with them, but because Lenovo and EMC strategic cooperation, so that we and VMware cooperation is very close.

Third, customization to meet the needs of users. At present, the state of the entire information security requirements are increasingly high, Lenovo, Lenovo's own virtualization software has been doing, Lenovo Virtual software is based on Cloudstack this open platform for its own development of its own virtualization software, so Lenovo will be based on customer demand, customized services, To better meet the needs of customers.

Summary：

Thinkserver Newly released three new products fully cover the needs of small and medium enterprises users, and the price can allow enterprises to accept. At present, Lenovo Group has almost the world's most complete IT equipment product line, whether it is server, storage, workstations and other enterprise-class products, or notebooks, tablets, mobile phones and other consumer products, Lenovo almost full coverage. In the future, Lenovo will rely on its comprehensive product line advantages, and through efficient integration with the industry's superior resources, to provide customers with the goods on demand customized end-to-end solution.