RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NC–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today, Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) introduced 21 new ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile V3 servers powered by 4th Next-generation AMD EPYC processors that extend breakthrough performance and industry-leading efficiency to more businesses than ever with its broadest AMD-based intelligent infrastructure portfolio yet. The solutions, part of Lenovo’s recently announced Infrastructure Solutions V3 portfolio, will enable customers of all sizes to run high-performance computing, artificial intelligence (AI) and traditional workloads smarter, faster, across edge and multi-cloud environments and run more efficiently.
“Lenovo enables business transformation with edge-to-cloud server and storage solutions, helping customers harness the power of data,” said Kamran Amini, vice president and general manager of Server & Storage, Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group. “Deployment 4th By delivering breakthrough performance in next-generation AMD EPYC processors with Lenovo’s technical innovation, we offer our broadest enterprise portfolio designed to help organizations across all industries accelerate IT modernization and achieve intelligent transformation.”
Breakthrough performance for complex workloads
As the proliferation of big data fuels demand for computing everywhere, Lenovo is helping customers modernize their data center IT architecture. The Lenovo ThinkSystem V3 servers with 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors are the most reliable and best performing in the industry, with added security. Together, Lenovo and AMD have set approximately 100 world records across a wide range of workloads, more than double the closest competitor. With AMD EPYC 9004 series processors, Lenovo ThinkSystem servers support up to 96 cores and 6TB of memory per CPU, accelerating business velocity across a wide range of industry applications including financial services, manufacturing and retail.
For example, Cyllene, a Paris-based IT company that provides digital transformation services and IT consulting, uses Lenovo ThinkSystem servers with AMD EPYC processors to achieve better business and efficiency outcomes.
“Lenovo’s AMD-based platforms contribute to the unprecedented performance of Cyllene’s ALTER cloud services in our data center,” said Oliver Morel, Cyllene’s chief strategy officer. “The energy savings are real, they consistently lower our PUE and help add value to our efforts to reduce our overall carbon footprint.”
Driving Sustainable Computing
As part of its ongoing commitment to enabling more sustainable computing and helping customers achieve their sustainability goals, Lenovo announces the new Lenovo ThinkSystem SD665 V3, a high-density server based on AMD’s 4th Gen EPYC processor. Next-generation Lenovo Neptune™ water cooling uses Neptune Water Cooling to capture up to 98% of system heat and reduce power consumption by up to 40%. The new Lenovo Neptune™ Liquid Assisted Cooling solution also helps customers maximize data center efficiency with CPU cooling capabilities, ideal for legacy air-cooled data centers. Lenovo ThinkSystem servers with AMD EPYC processors now deliver the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) for energy efficiency with predefined tuning parameters for maximum performance and energy efficiency. In addition, Lenovo provides carbon offsetting services for its entire ThinkSystem server portfolio, enabling customers to immediately mitigate the carbon impact of their data center equipment.
“4th AMD EPYC generation processors continue to raise the bar for workload performance in modern data centers while delivering exceptional power efficiency,” said Ram Peddibhotla, corporate vice president, EPYC product management, AMD. “4th AMD EPYC generation processors on Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile V3 servers will transform the data center operations of our joint customers by accelerating time to value, lowering total cost of ownership and helping organizations meet their sustainability goals.”
Optimized solutions for accelerated IT transformation
With this announcement, Lenovo has launched 14 new ThinkAgile HCI solutions with 4th AMD EPYC generation processors, ideal for hybrid cloud and virtualization solutions, helping customers to consolidate their IT and simplify management. The new Lenovo ThinkAgile VX solutions with AMD EPYC enable public-cloud-like simplicity in a private or hybrid cloud environment, delivering new levels of performance, scalability, resiliency, and simplicity with high-performance storage devices. New ThinkAgile HX solutions with AMD Delivering exceptional performance, EPYC processors offer simplified operations, increased workload density, stronger data protection, and seamless application across clouds to enable a true hybrid architecture.
These streamlined solutions enable enterprise customers of all sizes to flexibly deploy and manage on-premises, hybrid, or multi-cloud environments while accelerating computing power to help solve mankind’s greatest challenges.
Safety by design
Modern IT infrastructures must be prepared to withstand increasingly sophisticated security threats and support the highest level of business continuity. The enhanced security features of Lenovo ThinkShield and ThinkAgile leverage AMD Infinity Guard, a unique advancement that helps organizations protect against internal and external data threats while mitigating threats during software processing.
Lenovo ThinkSystem servers with 4th AMD EPYC generation processors also help keep data safe, whether it’s in use, in flight, or in business. AMD’s “Security by Design” approach includes state-of-the-art security features and a security subsystem embedded in silicon to protect data. Lenovo’s enhanced ThinkShield Security provides the industry’s advanced infrastructure security features for enhanced IT resiliency and conforms to the industry’s rigorous security standards. The groundbreaking AMD EPYC processors also help enable innovative technologies like confidential computing with a dedicated, fully integrated on-die security processor.
Visit https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/servers-storage/alliance/amd/ to learn more about Lenovo solutions powered by AMD. Lenovo offerings are available as a service through TruScale Infrastructure Services.
About Lenovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a $70 billion global technology company, ranked #171 on the Fortune Global 500, employs 75,000 people around the world and serves millions of customers every day in 180 markets served. With a bold vision to bring smarter technology to everyone, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company by continuing to expand into key growth areas such as servers, storage, mobile, solutions and services. This transformation, along with Lenovo’s world-changing innovations, is building a more inclusive, trusted, and sustainable digital society for everyone, everywhere. To learn more, visit https://www.lenovo.com and read the latest news on our StoryHub.
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