Lenovo announced an expansive series of new data storage, virtualisation solutions and data management services, designed to help customers modernise their IT and data infrastructure for powering enterprise applications and AI ready capabilities. Today’s new offerings include new Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile data storage and virtualisation solutions, announced in tandem with data management services. Designed to provide a modern foundation for enterprises and mid-size businesses achieving AI innovations, this announcement combines complementary hardware, software and services offerings to help deploy, manage, and unleash the true potential of enterprise data.
“Sixty-three percent of organisations either do not have or are unsure if they have the right data management practices for AI, according to a survey by Gartner.” [1] Customer unique data is the differentiation that will drive their competitive advantage and most accurate results, however 80 per cent of storage deployed in the last 5 years is on slower hard drive-based storage (according to IDC reporting) that is not optimised for AI. At the same time, customers are challenged with new virtualisation and containerisation requirements that demand open solutions. Businesses must mitigate this risk by ensuring their enterprise data systems and practices are modernised for advanced use cases.
“With disruptions in enterprise virtualisation strategies and the mandate to make their data ready for the most demanding workloads, organisations are looking to modernise their legacy infrastructure with open solutions,” said Stuart McRae, Executive Director and General Manager of Data Storage at Lenovo. “These new offerings provide the security, flexibility, and performance to optimise enterprise applications and power enterprises to extract maximum value from data.”
Flexibility and choice for virtualisation and data needs
Businesses today need the efficiency and cyber resiliency of their systems to run parallel to performance, simplicity, and scalability with an option to deploy on-prem and hybrid so that the data can stay in place for compliance while AI workloads run where appropriate. Lenovo has introduced new Lenovo ThinkSystem and Lenovo ThinkAgile Enterprise offerings optimised or AI, virtualisation and storage bottlenecks, including:
- Lenovo ThinkSystem DS Series Storage Arrays: All-flash and protected Storage Area Network (SAN) block storage systems that are simple to deploy and manage for virtualised environments, improving performance and efficiency for virtualisation and data modernisation.
- Lenovo ThinkAgile FX Series: Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) that delivers an open architecture that supports seamless conversion between select HCI solutions without replacing hardware, delivering maximum investment protection and flexibility.
- Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Series for disaggregated storage for Microsoft Azure Local: As a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) integrated appliance provider with Microsoft, we are expanding support for disaggregated external Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SAN to deliver greater enterprise storage support for virtualisation customers.
- Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Series with NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000: Integrated next generation GPU support to power advanced AI performance capabilities for enterprise inferencing with Microsoft Azure Local.
- Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series for AI Lenovo’s HCI offering features Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) software stack to enable customers running in virtualised and distributed containerised environments to deploy, run, and scale AI models in minutes.
Complete lifecycle services optimised for advanced workloads including AI
To help customers fully realise the benefits of their new systems and prepare their data for AI, Lenovo is extending this momentum with a broad portfolio of hybrid cloud and data lifecycle services designed to modernise environments, strengthen reliability, and support evolving storage and AI workload requirements. This portfolio includes Lenovo Deployment Services for ThinkAgile and ThinkSystem that help organisations accelerate time to value through more efficient infrastructure rollout, alongside a range of storage services that can be consumed individually or through Lenovo’s flexible TruScale model to enhance performance, agility, and innovation across the data storage lifecycle.
To guide long-term strategy, Lenovo’s Hybrid Cloud Advisory Services help customers align on-prem or hybrid environments with compliance, data protection, and operational efficiency. Lenovo’s Migration Services help organisations optimise data and workloads by combining cloud flexibility with the dependability of existing infrastructure.
As part of Lenovo’s expanded Data Management Services portfolio, Lenovo Premier Enhanced Storage Support delivers a specialised, storage-focused experience for IT teams managing critical workloads. With direct access to Lenovo experts, customers benefit from proactive monitoring, performance optimisation, and guided issue resolution—helping ensure systems run reliably, are better protected, and maintain the resilience needed to support AI innovation and hybrid cloud growth.
[1] Gartner Press Release, Lack of AI-Ready Data Pus AI Projects at Risk, February 26. 2025 GARTNER is a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates.
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