Lenovo, a Fortune Global 500 company and
global technology leader in driving Intelligent Transformation, and
Pivot3, a leading provider of hyperconverged infrastructure solutions
(HCI), today announced a global strategic partnership to develop, market
and sell a new set of edge computing solutions optimized for
mission-critical smart city security. The integrated appliances feature
Lenovo Data Center Group (DCG) ultra-reliable ThinkSystem servers
powered by Pivot3 HCI software.
Much of the smart city
market growth is being driven by mission-critical security initiatives
which rely on information collated from an array of city sensors and
databases combined with video data and analytics including facial
recognition, behavioral analysis, license plate recognition and other
intelligence. According to IHS Markit, the global market for security
equipment in the city surveillance sector has surpassed $3 billion in
2017 and is expected to grow at an average rate of 14.6 percent through
20211. Effectively collecting, analyzing, storing and acting on all this
information in real-time relies on the latest advances in edge
computing. The Lenovo/Pivot3 solution provides this growing market with
resilient, cost effective and easy-to-manage edge computing.
"Together
Lenovo and Pivot3 are enabling the next generation of edge computing,
where governments and organizations can leverage machine learning and
analytics to better protect the people they serve," said Wilfredo
Sotolongo, vice president and general manager of IoT at Lenovo Data
Center Group. "Through this partnership, we provide customers a solution
to centrally manage their distributed edge devices - with faster video
ingest rates, higher resiliency and smaller, space conscious
appliances."
"We are thrilled to team up with
Lenovo, a partner and industry leader that shares our commitment to
supporting the evolving data center," said Bruce Milne, chief marketing
officer and general manager, Lenovo Alliance, Pivot3. "Pivot3 and Lenovo
support customers with streamlined service delivery, automation and
efficiency. Customers are seeing incredible impact from our HCI
solutions that are optimized for mission-critical safe city, IoT and
edge computing, and we're pleased to further expand that impact with
Lenovo's market influence, distribution and accelerated go-to-market
strategies."
Among the growing customer base is the City
of Bogota, Colombia, that needed to refresh its complex monitoring
system of over 1000 cameras of different vendors. The City of Bogota is
deploying a highly efficient Lenovo/Pivot3 edge computing solution to
achieve maximum infrastructure efficiency and scale the entire security
network into a central control center, out of which at least four
visualization locations operated by police will be served. With this new
deployment in edge computing, the City of Bogota is now able to
seamlessly scale performance
requirements as surveillance needs
grow. Following this initial deployment for the City of Bogota, the
suburbs of Bogota additionally chose the combined Pivot3-Lenovo
technology for another 2,000 cameras located along the city's 18
boroughs.
"With this new scalable edge computing
solution, the city's security team can view any camera, regardless of
brand across the city from a single location, which will greatly
simplify operations," said Rafael Padilla, systems integrator, City of
Bogota Safe City Project.
The new Lenovo/Pivot3 solution
is currently available and installed in markets across the globe.
Proof-of-concept testing is also available at Lenovo's Innovation
Centers, where customers and partners can gain real-time insight into
how the IoT solutions can perform within their unique environments,
workloads and data.
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