Lenovo and WEKA announced a new global
agreement focused on offering solutions for next-generation data
management architectures and performance-intensive workloads for
delivery in more than 160 markets worldwide. These comprehensive
solutions will accelerate artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics for
high performance workloads, including finance, genomics, life science,
media and entertainment applications around the world by speeding time
to insights while reducing associated costs.
Modern data management solutions need to be reliable, security enhanced,
and able to meet the performance and scalability demands of
next-generation workloads. As part of Lenovo's expanding data management
investments and momentum, Lenovo will combine WEKA's
ultra-high-performance, hybrid cloud data platform software with its
industry-leading Lenovo ThinkSystem servers to deliver an exceptionally
powerful, high-performance and scalable data management solution for AI
and data analytics.
The new ThinkSystem SDS Ready Nodes with WEKA Data Platform
software will provide the industry's broadest configuration choices,
offering customers the option to choose from the latest generations of
Intel® and AMD processors, NVIDIA GPUs, NVMe drives, and fast networking
selections. Validated WEKA Ready Node systems can be quickly deployed
for all scale-out workloads simplifying deployment and eliminating risk
resulting in a faster time to production.
"We use Lenovo ThinkSystem servers with WEKA Data Platform software as
the foundation for our high-performance computing environment for the
processing of sensitive data," said Dr. Roberto Fabbretti, Ph.D.,
Director of the Computing and Research Support Division at the
University of Lausanne. "The processing of medical or sensitive data is
subject to increasingly stringent legal and technical constraints. We
find these two partners to be particularly attentive to these issues and
are among the few providers of products that can combine very high
performance with strong data security. These types of platforms form the
powerful, scalable, reliable, and secure data infrastructure that
underpins SENSA, our next-generation data processing and analytics
platform, which is accelerating biomedical research and discovery
throughout Switzerland."
The combined Lenovo and WEKA solution is architected to simplify scale
while delivering leadership quality uptime, and performance. Equipped
with the WEKA-integrated ThinkSystem SDS Ready Nodes, enterprises can
leverage hybrid on-premise and cloud resources for cloud bursting and
scaling.
"As a global top five storage provider, Lenovo is committed to
empowering intelligent transformation and accelerating the new era of IT
through deep collaboration with the new scalable data management
solutions," said Kamran Amini, Vice President and General Manager of
Server & Storage, Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group. "This
partnership is an important next step in enabling more customers to
seamlessly leverage AI, analytics, and machine learning (ML) to advance
their businesses and help solve humanity's greatest challenges."
"Lenovo's industry-leading servers perfectly complement WEKA's
high-performance data platform software. Together, they deliver the
robust, highly scalable, performant, and secure foundation that
performance-intensive workloads require," said Jonathan Martin,
President at WEKA. "For organizations looking to innovate or power
research and discovery with AI, ML, and HPC, this solution promises to
be transformative. We are thrilled to be working with Lenovo to deliver
it to customers in over 160 countries worldwide."
Lenovo ThinkSystem SDS Ready Node
solutions tested, optimized and certified with the WEKA Data Platform
include the ThinkSystem SR630 V2, SR635 V2, SR650 V2 and SR655 V2. With
WEKA software licensing available for purchase through Lenovo today, the
validated Ready Node systems can be quickly deployed for all scale-out
workloads simplifying deployment and eliminating risk resulting in a
faster time to production.