Today at Lenovo's Transform 2.0 conference, Lenovo, a Global Fortune 500 company and a technology leader in Intelligent Transformation, and NetApp, a Fortune 500 company and the data authority for hybrid cloud,
announced a global multi-faceted, partnership to bring innovative
technology and a simplified experience to help customers modernize IT
and accelerate their digital transformation. As innovation leaders in
high-performance computing and flash storage solutions, Lenovo and
NetApp are uniquely positioned to bring leading technology and scale to
enable customers worldwide to modernize their IT architectures from the
edge to the core network to the cloud.
The
two companies are co-developing the largest range of new Lenovo-branded
storage products that combine NetApp's industry-leading all-flash data
management solutions with Lenovo's award-winning ThinkSystem
infrastructure. These new products will utilize core software technology
from NetApp and will be manufactured by Lenovo, leveraging Lenovo's
world-class supply chain, which is ranked in the top five by Gartner for
all global technology companies.
Additionally,
Lenovo and NetApp announced a new joint venture company in China to
deliver storage products and data management solutions localized and
tailored to meet China's specialized requirements and distinct cloud
ecosystem. The new venture is expected to be operational by spring 2019,
pending local approvals.
"Lenovo
is committed to driving the new IT - Intelligent Transformation -
through an expanding customer-centric set of data center offerings,"
said Yang Yuanqing, Chairman and CEO of Lenovo. "Lenovo is committed to
both organic and inorganic growth to meet the needs of our customers,
and maintaining the strongest global partnerships in the data center
industry."
"In
today's global economy, customers demand new approaches to IT
infrastructures that support their digital transformation; through this
partnership, Lenovo and NetApp will offer a comprehensive portfolio of
products, solutions and service that is unrivaled in the market today,"
said George Kurian, Chief Executive Officer, NetApp. "Combining our
complementary strengths in customer-centric innovation, Lenovo and
NetApp will establish a new standard to accelerate our customers'
success."
"Lenovo
and NetApp are uniquely positioned to deliver the next-generation of
high performance data management solutions across the globe offering
customers unprecedented new performance, value and choice," said Kirk
Skaugen, Executive Vice President, Lenovo and President, Lenovo Data
Center Group. "Lenovo, now the world's fastest growing server company,
remains committed to our vision of being the most trusted data center
partner for our customer's digital transformation. We are bringing these
new storage and data management solutions immediately to companies in
more than 160 countries with an unmatched supply chain and services
network, and through an ever-strengthening global channel partner
ecosystem."
The
first solutions from this partnership - Lenovo ThinkSystem DE and DM
Series - will be globally available for purchase immediately. For more
information on this strategic partnership and other announcements from
Transform 2.0, please visit www.lenovo.com/EmpowerTransformation