Lenovo announces 42 new world record benchmarks for their new ThinkSystem server portfolio that was launched late June this year. These records involve various industry leading benchmark organisations, such as the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), Securities Technology Analysis Centre (STAC) and Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC).
"These results are an excellent testament to Lenovo’s ThinkSystem server innovation and technology design. The sheer number and diversity of these benchmarks demonstrate Lenovo’s commitment to innovation and drives business value for our customers, allowing them to run the most demanding workloads and applications," said Kim Stevenson, Lenovo’s Senior Vice President (Data Centre Infrastructure Business).
The breakdown
"Lenovo’s 42 new world breaking benchmarks for our new ThinkSystem servers utilizes the latest Intel Xeon Scalable processors, combined with third parties rating Lenovo as the #1 x86 server system reliability and customer satisfaction, showcases Lenovo’s engineering strength and more importantly our global commitment to exceed customer expectations," said Kirk Skaugen, Lenovo’s President of Data Centre Group.
Here’s a little breakdown of the ThinkSystem’s world record benchmarks:
An overview: ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile
Late June 2017, Lenovo launched its largest, most comprehensive portfolio of server, storage, networking, software and data centre services – ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile. Both aim to bring exceptional performance, reliability and quality to customers – enabling them to harness the power of the “intelligence revolution” – in order to create a strong technology foundation that supports transformative capabilities such as data analytics, high-performance computing, hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
The server portfolio solutions were designed to reduce complexity and tackle difficult workloads. It adapts to changing IT needs while reducing complexity and cost of traditional platforms. The servers include 14 highly configurable servers across rack and tower, mission critical, dense and blade platforms and new hyper-scale system designs - which streamline IT infrastructure and lead to increased service levels in the data centre that tie directly to business growth.
Furthermore, customers can choose between different technologies and scale technology as workload changes. The new portfolio server will not require customers to re-architect their existing data centre. Lenovo has also added seven new solutions covering cloud, big data, analytics and database that are supported on the new servers and introduced two new Intel solutions. These solutions are designed to empower customers to create the foundation of a future-defined data centre – solving their most challenging business problems and become digital disrupters in their own industries.
Lenovo will also be supporting the two Intel Select Solutions – which a new set of optimised solutions based on the Intel Xeon Scalable processors – for complex data centre workloads. Customers will be able to apply an industry-standard solution while simplifying and accelerating the process of selecting, deploying and optimizing data centre infrastructure to run specific workloads. This would be available from October 2017.