Purpose-built Software-defined DCs shaping alliances

Lenovo joins VMware for partnering in IT infrastructure solutions

BARCELONA, SPAIN: Lenovo has announced plans for broad collaboration and partnership with VMware to help clients fully realize the benefits of a software-defined data center by delivering new IT infrastructure solutions for private and hybrid cloud, end user computing, and virtualization; as it shared.

This alliance, as explained, extends the 16 year development relationship between System x and VMware, which has produced a number of innovations including the first VMware embedded hypervisor and broadens the alliance to include the full range of Lenovo’s expanded server businessSoftware-defined data center technologies extend the concept of server virtualization to networking and storage infrastructure resources, enabling delivery of compute, networking, and storage resources as a service.

Areas of collaboration include Private and hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions, elastic, scalable, and resilient Software Defined Storage infrastructure and enhanced performance of end-user virtual desktop services through Lenovo eXFlash technology, as further highlighted.

“We are pleased to continue to work closely with Lenovo to help our mutual customers realize the benefits of a software-defined data center,” said Raghu Raghuram, executive vice president, Software-Defined Data Center Division, VMware. “With the combination of VMware and Lenovo solution, we are empowering organizations with powerful automation, agility and flexibility in their IT infrastructure.”

Adalio Sanchez, senior vice president, Enterprise Systems Group, Lenovo, said, “By leveraging the strengths and respective geographic reach of our teams, we see significant synergy in delivering end-to-end designed-for-cloud infrastructures to our customers and their service providers.”