At present, the world is undergoing major changes unseen in a century. How will China's technological innovation companies work hard to create a new situation and plan a new chapter for the great rejuvenation strategy of the Chinese nation in the next decade or even longer? At the annual Lenovo Innovation and Technology Conference Tech World 2020 on October 28, 2020, Lenovo comprehensively demonstrated its “intelligent transformation 3S strategy” innovation results represented by “intelligent Internet of Things, intelligent infrastructure, and industry intelligence”. Five directions, including intelligent data center, end-side cloud collaboration, full-stack solutions, customer-centricity, and ecological cooperation, set the new era of intelligent computing in the future.
New infrastructure is a big game to stimulate overall China's technological innovation, especially the trillion-scale local digital infrastructure market and will open up new spaces for the local digital economy. IDC predicts that the overall investment scale of new infrastructure in 2020 will reach RMB 1.64 trillion. Among them, new energy vehicle charging piles, 5G infrastructure, large data centers, artificial intelligence, and industrial Internet closely related to ICT will reach trillions of investment. The new infrastructure will generally deliver ICT technology to third- and fourth-tier cities. While improving local economic productivity, it will create a wealth of new digital economy scenarios, new demands, and cultivate a large number of new digital technology talents.
"New infrastructure" has pressed the fast-forward button for the intelligent transformation of enterprises. The core of intelligent transformation is to promote the intelligent transformation and innovation of key business links and key business scenarios of enterprises through the integration of technology, business and industry, and bring enterprises To have tangible business results and returns. Lenovo Enterprise Technology Group is the transformation and innovation engine of Lenovo's "Intelligent Transformation 3S Strategy" and the innovation platform for the "end-side-cloud-network-intelligence" package of solutions. Tong Fuyao, senior vice president of Lenovo Group and CEO of Lenovo Enterprise Technology Group, emphasized at Lenovo Tech World 2020 that Lenovo Enterprise Technology Group is fully prepared for the "new infrastructure".
With new infrastructure, new demands, and new scenarios as the core, and Lenovo's technological innovation ecology and partners as the backing, Lenovo Enterprise Technology Group is finding a new path for Chinese technology to take off in the world in the midst of unprecedented changes in the world.
Customer-centric innovation
"New infrastructure" is not only a tide of infrastructure construction embedded with smart technology and digital technology, but also generates a large number of new scenarios and new demands, which will give birth to a new generation of smart technologies, products, solutions and services. Similar to the "Information Highway Project" of the United States 30 years ago, the United States expected to use the "new infrastructure" of communications infrastructure to lay out the upstream and downstream of the entire information and communications industry, and to transform society and improve efficiency through information technology, but the result was A large number of new demands were generated, which stimulated and gave birth to many enterprise-level IT technology vendors and Internet companies that dominated the world.
(Tong Fuyao, Senior Vice President of Lenovo Group and CEO of Lenovo Enterprise Technology Group)
And this time China’s “new infrastructure” is to a large extent comparable to the last time the US “Information Highway Project”. In the past 2020, we can see the emergence of a large number of new scenarios and new demands. A few key words are : Ultra-large scale, ultra-complexity, regional rise, and advancement in uncertainty.
First look at the super-large scale. Last year, Lenovo announced its entry into the IDC data center industry at Tech World 2019 and successively implemented a number of ultra-large-scale data center projects. Zhang Chunqiang, senior manager of IDC operation of Lenovo Enterprise Technology Group's intelligent cloud service, introduced: Lenovo built a 20,000 square meter naturally cooled data center for 360 and Meituan in the wind and sand; Zhangbei built nearly 30,000 for Ali in the extremely low winter temperature A data center with indirect evaporative cooling technology on a square meter; in September this year, it won the bid for the North China Green Large-scale Data Center Project. It took 4 days to complete all the quotations and technical solutions, and it is estimated that the delivery cycle is only 3 months...Behind the super-large scale, it is a comprehensive test of the technical team's technology, solutions, and delivery capabilities.
Second, look at the super-complexity. Liu Miao, senior director of Lenovo Group and general manager of the intelligent cloud service division of Lenovo Enterprise Technology Group, shared a case: Last year, Lenovo won an order for management services from a public hospital in Shanghai. This project is very difficult and must be close in a short time. Hundreds of IT systems penetrated and formed a hybrid cloud platform, and then entered into long-term operation and management services; Lenovo invested a lot of energy in the initial stage of the customer's transformation-both the team in Shenzhen Delivery Center for remote delivery and management, and the team in Shanghai For operation, maintenance and management, Lenovo integrated dozens of systems from different manufacturers in this project, generated thousands of documents, and continuously generated hundreds of T or more of data. And such projects are not uncommon in all parts of China, and it shows that under the situation of increasing complexity, customers are more dependent on service providers with super integration capabilities.
The third look at the regional rise. Through Lenovo's exploration of "new infrastructure" this year, Liu Miao believes that a very important trend is the regional industry cloud. The so-called regional industry cloud is to be close to regional customers, especially computing from the centralized cloud data center to the regional and edge front end, which will generate a large number of regional integration needs. In particular, many new industries, including the "culture, education, health, and sports" mentioned by the central government recently, are based on the construction and construction of digital service capabilities that need to be close to hundreds of millions or even billions of Chinese people. This is also the cloud service transformation of Lenovo Enterprise Technology Group. An important direction of For example, Lenovo has explored regional education clouds in the past year, helping local governments avoid repeated investment in educational resources and forming information islands.
The fourth is to advance in uncertainty. Wen Weiping, Sales Director of Intelligent Cloud Service, Lenovo Enterprise Technology Group, introduced a case: In 2019, Lenovo entered the site of a hospital in East China. The hospital has nearly a hundred non-core businesses to go to the cloud, but it also involves data security and data. Privacy, so we must go to the private cloud; Lenovo began to discuss with customers how to complete the cloud migration smoothly. During the discussion, we found that customers did not pay much attention to virtual machine management and service orchestration. Therefore, they proposed the unified management of cloud management on and off the cloud. Platform, after customers accept this opinion, continue to discuss, from data disaster preparedness to application disaster preparedness to the cloud of some core businesses, and taking into account the continuous business changes and various uncertainties in the future, the two parties finally "formed" five The "family" of the unified operation and maintenance in the year, together move forward in uncertainty.
Li Guoqing, vice president of Lenovo Group and general manager of business sales of Lenovo Enterprise Technology Group, emphasized that the intelligent transformation project is not easy nor simple. It includes top-level planning, architecture design, delivery and implementation, and subsequent operations. It is a system engineering that runs through the entire life cycle of the enterprise. . Lenovo is customer-centric, promotes enterprise transformation and sustainable development with full-stack solutions, and at the same time creates localized solutions that are more suitable for Chinese enterprises to meet the rapid delivery needs of small and medium-sized customers, the needs of intelligent transformation of industry customers, and the Internet Customer’s customized needs, etc.
Accumulate scientific and technological innovation
The Industry Intelligence Day on the first day of the Lenovo Innovation and Technology Conference focused on “new infrastructure, new opportunities”. In the opening speech, Lenovo Chairman and CEO Yang Yuanqing focused on Lenovo’s “end-side-cloud-network-intelligence” technology Architected the layout and results in various fields, and pointed out that this technical architecture is highly compatible with the "new infrastructure"-the industrial Internet, 5G, data center, and artificial intelligence in the new infrastructure are the results of Lenovo's years of hard work and accumulation. field.
Tong Fuyao emphasized that the new infrastructure has become a main theme of China's future development. The digital economy driven by the new infrastructure has allowed all industries to develop in the direction of dataization, networking and intelligence. Lenovo is based on the knowledge-how of the industry. In-depth understanding of the company, with a brand-new look, continue to provide enterprises with new products, new services and new experiences. The new smart data center is a technological innovation launched by Lenovo Enterprise Technology Group through in-depth research on the needs of new infrastructure customers and scenarios.
"The'newness' of the new smart data center is mainly reflected in the ability of'cloud-side collaboration', and the main form of enterprise computing power in the future is the'cloud + edge' model." Tong Fuyao pointed out that the cloud is unified scheduling and management of edge computing power , Complete the AI algorithm training and push it to the edge end, and the edge end aggregates the pre-processed data to the cloud, obtains the algorithm and implements local inference, and completes intelligent scenarios similar to face recognition and quality detection.
Specifically, with the rapid growth of industrial Internet, Internet of Vehicles and other industries, cloud computing power can no longer meet the needs in terms of timeliness and security of localized processing. The future form of corporate computing power is mainly "cloud "Add "side". Tong Fuyao emphasized that the cloud schedules and manages data to complete the training of artificial intelligence AI algorithms, while the edge end processes and infers data. The edge end not only requires the computing power of CPU and GPU, but also needs to sink the computing power. In order to realize the local reasoning of artificial intelligence algorithm, help users complete a series of intelligent scenarios. After massive data enters the cloud through the edge, unified computing, analysis, and management must be carried out. This puts forward new requirements for the utilization, maturity and effectiveness of the cloud's CPU and GPU computing power, as well as energy conservation and environmental protection. At the same time, various 5G scene applications must also rely on edge computing technology to achieve and carry, to realize the coordination of edge and 5G networks.
Edge ends can be divided into light edges and heavy edges. Light edge focuses on the analysis of various devices, data preprocessing and front-end reasoning, while the customized edge gateways and embedded devices provided by Lenovo can meet the various requirements of customers for light edge and smart devices. In addition to the light-edge functions, Lenovo's heavy-edge products also have more storage space and higher computing power, which can meet a series of customer requirements for data preprocessing, local data collection and storage, etc., and combine them to achieve For data resource scheduling and management on the end side, that is, the edge side.
Among them, Lenovo's high-performance big data all-in-one machine can increase the performance of a single machine by 3.6 times compared with open source products, which can well meet the requirements of customers for local data processing. In addition to the light and heavy edge devices, Lenovo also has its own IP LECP multi-point access edge cloud platform and 5G end-to-end solutions. The LECP edge cloud platform can support virtual machines and containers, and can adapt very well to various smart devices at the light and heavy edge. At the same time, third-party applications can achieve 5G network collaboration through LECP. In addition, the LECP platform can also achieve internal integration of cloud data to achieve efficient edge-cloud collaboration.
It is worth mentioning that Lenovo's internal industry provides rich scenarios for the development and application of edge computing platforms and edge AI. For example, Lenovo itself is an intelligent manufacturing company. Lenovo Edge AI has been applied to quality inspection of mobile phones, automatic monitoring and management of factories, intelligent scheduling of workshops, intelligent store optimization, intelligent voice services, and intelligent logistics. It is Lenovo's own rich "new infrastructure" scenarios that have laid a solid foundation for the accumulation of scientific and technological innovation. Tong Fuyao emphasized that the end-to-end edge cloud collaboration solution created by Lenovo Enterprise Technology Group can provide customers with 5G private network planning and construction services, edge equipment + LECP + edge intelligent planning and construction services, and data center end planning, design, and construction Services and other full-stack products, solutions and services.
New ecology brings new ideas
Before the concept of "new infrastructure" was put forward, Lenovo had fully deployed the 3S strategy of intelligent transformation, starting from the three dimensions of Smart IoT, Smart Infrastructure, and Smart Vertical industry intelligence, and vigorously promoted intelligent transformation to become intelligent. The leader and enabler of globalization change. At the same time, Tong Fuyao also emphasized that the "new infrastructure" requires better coordination between everyone. Every track has very good players, and no company can dominate the world. As the top ten core enterprises of new infrastructure and the core provider of "new infrastructure", Lenovo continues to deepen cooperation with industry partners under the transformation strategy centered on services and solutions, and continue to adapt to the ever-changing Chinese market with innovation.
(Li Guoqing, Vice President of Lenovo Group and General Manager of Business Sales of Lenovo Enterprise Technology Group)
Currently, Lenovo is moving from a hardware provider with traditional advantages such as servers and storage to a provider of data center planning, construction, and operation. It has also become a multi-cloud management, hybrid cloud service, connecting multiple public clouds and providing customers with full-stack private clouds. , Hybrid cloud management service provider, and Lenovo is also committed to becoming the technology provider who understands the cloud best in the construction of data centers and the server and infrastructure in the cloud world, as well as an integrator who opens up full-stack technology from the perspective of industry applications. Build a brand-new "new infrastructure" industrial ecology and promote the new development of regions and industries.
Faced with the demand for "new infrastructure", the value positioning of Lenovo Enterprise Technology Group is to be an integrator of the industry for the top and an integrator of the ecology for the bottom. In the past year, Lenovo Enterprise Technology Group has become the top strategic partner of Microsoft and Tencent in China. It has also successfully invested in outstanding companies with Lenovo's investment team and industry investment institutions. At the same time, Lenovo Enterprise Technology Group also integrates technology research and development with Lenovo's brother units and teams, especially integrating black technology into service projects. Liu Miao said that when the entire ecosystem is well integrated, Lenovo will become a very promising service provider in the industry with a very solid foundation.
More importantly, customers have put forward many requirements for Lenovo, and at the same time they have begun to become Lenovo's partners, and both parties will find problems, find problems, and find solutions together. For example: Lenovo supports CITIC Securities artificial intelligence applications through GPU servers to help customers optimize quantitative trading strategies; uses blockchain technology to build electronic medical records to help medical institutions build large health platforms; uses HPC high-performance computing plus GPU deep learning The combination method has built a very influential big data teaching and research computing system for Southeast University; built the world's first 5G+8K ultra-high-definition broadcast vehicle on-board data center, and supported major events such as the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup. And more often, many problems cannot be solved at once, but new transformation methods must be obtained through long-term delivery, operation, operation and maintenance, and even risk sharing and benefit sharing. Currently, Lenovo is also studying how to transform its business model from traditional project delivery to an operational cooperative delivery method.
Li Guoqing emphasized that Lenovo firmly believes that the era of intelligence is an era that requires everyone to explore together. No single company can promote the intelligence of the entire industry. Lenovo Enterprise Technology Group uses global resources to build an ecosystem, and collaboratively innovates at the level of hardware construction and system application to develop product services and end-to-end solutions that are most suitable for the Chinese market.
Chang Jiang, chief consultant for intelligent cloud services of Lenovo Enterprise Technology Group, said that the next ten years are the ten years for Lenovo to transform into services and solutions. Lenovo’s vision is to become the most reliable and full-stack digital transformation partner for customers. Build a customer-centric new enterprise digitalization road. Specifically: First of all, Lenovo uses a brand-new business and business model to ensure the realization of customer informatization strategies; secondly, Lenovo helps customers build an agile IT organization and structure with a "live together" model, and even Lenovo can become a part of the customer's IT organization ; Third, Lenovo can provide the local industry cloud and edge cloud implementation closest to customers to enhance the end customer experience; fourth, Lenovo strengthens the development and implementation of new digital technology application scenarios with strong ecological integration capabilities; finally, Lenovo is building a new service system and service capabilities with IDC data centers and future urban infrastructure as the service base, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud services as the core and middle office, and the implementation of regional industry clouds, especially with From consulting and design to implementation, to long-term operation and maintenance, and even the entire life cycle of IT services for operation and service cooperation.
In summary: Lenovo Tech World 2020 comprehensively showcases the "intelligent transformation 3S strategy" results and "new infrastructure" core technologies such as new intelligent data centers, end-side cloud collaboration, full-stack solutions, customer-centricity, and ecological cooperation. The strength of the manufacturer, in particular, reflects the result of Lenovo's deep cultivation of enterprise-level technology R&D and innovation in the past few years, and now it is accumulating. With the full launch of the "new infrastructure", it will not only promote Lenovo's ability to develop service and solution growth engines, but is also expected to recreate a new era of Lenovo's innovation. (Text/Ningchuan)