There is no doubt that digitalization is changing the whole world, and the bottom layer of the digital world is huge and continuously generated, collected, and calculated data. Especially with the acceleration of industrial digital transformation, data has become the most critical new production factor. In the future, All scenarios will be data-driven.
It is precisely because of this that at the beginning of this year, the "Overall Layout Plan for the Construction of Digital China" issued by the state clearly stated: "By 2025, an integrated promotion pattern that is horizontally connected, vertically connected, and coordinated and powerful will be basically formed. progress, the digital infrastructure is efficiently connected, the scale and quality of data resources are accelerating, the value of data elements is effectively released, and the quality and benefits of digital economic development are greatly enhanced."
In this context, as a provider of intelligent data management solutions and services, Lenovo Lingtuo took the lead in releasing a series of new and upgraded products and services at the end of last year, empowering thousands of industries and new scenarios, Integration of new tracks; and since 2023, Lenovo Lingtuo has insisted on continuously polishing more intelligent, powerful, and credible data management solutions, deeply stimulating data storage, insight, management, and flow capabilities, and helping Chinese companies release data value , into the wave of digital China development.
Lin Yousheng, Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing, Lenovo Lingtuo
As Lin Yousheng, senior director of product management and marketing of Lenovo Lingtuo, said: "This year is the first year after the epidemic, and the changes in the entire market environment are very different from those in the past three years or even before the epidemic, especially since this year, represented by ChatGPT. The birth of Generative AI and the vigorous development of digital China have brought greater market opportunities to Lenovo Lingtuo. Many new products and solutions have been explored and practiced in the field of software definition and cloud storage, hoping to better help Chinese enterprises realize data management and application, and win in the era of digital and intelligent integration."
Three key words of data innovation
Objectively speaking, the importance of data as a new type of infrastructure can be seen today. The main difference between it and traditional IT infrastructure is that it is designed with the goal of fully mining the value of data. To put it simply, the data infrastructure must center around the data and provide support for the full life cycle of data, so that data can be stored, flowed, and used well, transforming data resources into data assets, and maximizing the value of data kind of infrastructure.
Focusing on this goal, Lenovo Lingtuo has also actively adopted technological innovation this year to better help enterprises build data infrastructure, which can be summarized with three key words:
First of all, it is new technology. At present, all-flash has become a new technology trend in the entire storage market. According to IDC data, China's all-flash storage will achieve 26% growth in 2021, accounting for 19% of the market share. Among them, nearly 36% of the demand for all-flash storage products comes from the financial industry. At the same time, the manufacturing, medical, and energy industries are gradually increasing the purchase of all-flash storage products. Especially with the development of NVMe technology and the decline in the price of SSD storage media, more and more industries are using all-flash storage products to build or upgrade data centers.
Lenovo Lingtuo has been committed to realizing the popularization of all-flash. According to Lin Yousheng, "Currently, Lenovo Lingtuo's sales of all-flash storage have exceeded half. The development of the flash storage market. Lenovo Lingtuo has launched a 15TB SSD product, and will release a 30TB SSD product in the future, making it easier to implement and popularize all-flash storage and unleash the potential of massive data.”
Second, is localization. As a joint venture company, Lenovo Lingtuo has always attached great importance to the development of "localization" and continued to increase investment in "localization" research and development. This investment is not only to meet the needs of Chinese companies, but also hopes to use the parent company's cutting-edge The ability to innovate in science and technology, explore and develop core technologies suitable for local development in China, achieve "in China for Global", and then better promote the development and growth of China's data storage industry.
It can be seen that as early as 2021, Lenovo Lingtuo successfully passed the CMMI Level 5 evaluation certification, the highest level in the global software field, and obtained the CMMI Level 5 certificate. ). In addition, Lenovo Lingtuo also joined the Distributed Storage Industry Array (DSIA), and was listed in the first batch of companies that passed the distributed storage evaluation of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology. These achievements mark Lenovo Lingtuo's localized research and development innovation to a new level.
Finally, it is intelligence. The AI large model represented by ChatGPT is undoubtedly the biggest hot topic in the entire market in the first half of this year, and the large model is actually a typical product of the combination of "big data + large computing power + strong algorithm", which embodies the inherent evolution of big data. The "hidden knowledge base" is a general carrier to realize various artificial intelligence applications.
In Lin Yousheng's view, big data will play a key role in the "overall linkage" in the application of large models in the future, and Lenovo Lingtuo is also actively exploring in this area, and will also cooperate with the parent company Lenovo's computing power in the future And the algorithmic capabilities of third-party partners can be combined to continuously upgrade and improve the technical level of AI large models.
From the three keywords of Lenovo Lingtuo's data innovation, it is not difficult to find that Lenovo Lingtuo's focus and focus has shifted from "data management" to "resource management", which is also the upgrade of "Data Fabric" proposed by Lenovo Lingtuo. This is the key reason for "Resources Fabric", which also allows Lenovo LianTuo to stand on a higher perspective and dimension, and promote more new solutions, new applications and new scenarios to land in the Chinese market.
Exploration and practice never stop
Of course, in the field of data management technology innovation, Lenovo Lingtuo's exploration and practice have "never stopped", and its "troika" for enterprise data services has also maintained innovation and iteration.
Among them, in terms of software-defined storage, Lenovo Lingtuo's self-developed MagnaScale data management platform has also ushered in another upgrade this year - the new MagnaScale V3.1 version is in application scenarios and flexibility, comprehensive performance, object storage capabilities, etc. All aspects have been fully optimized. As the core software of Lenovo ThinkSystem DXN enterprise-level distributed software-defined storage series, the official release of MagnaScale V3.1 also marks another breakthrough of Lenovo Lingtuo in the field of distributed software-defined storage.
Lin Yousheng said that Lenovo Lingtuo has a very good performance in software-defined storage, in fact, it also has a direct relationship with the parent company NetApp. There are many excellent software products and solutions in the field.
For example, how to manage data stored on different carriers? This is a problem that has plagued the industry for many years, but NetApp first introduced the concept of "Data Fabric" in the market, and through the underlying ONTAP unified data management software, users can use the same mode to access and collect data in different places The linkage between data and data, so as to realize the "opening up" of data management.
On this basis, in the past few years, NetApp has also focused on the field of "cross-cloud" management, and gradually built ONTAP software on each "cloud". Different from before, ONTAP is realizing 90% of the functions of ONTAP on the original hardware devices through the innovation and combination of cloud-native technologies. That is to say, users can now experience similar functions of ONTAP in the local system in the cloud. It can be said that this is a very big innovation.
Not only that, NetApp also has a lot of innovations in containers. Its products and technologies have many unique advantages on K8s and Trident. It can better combine storage with customer applications and "clouds" through Trident, which is different from Other software products are only available as open source. NetApp has invested a lot of technology and R&D capabilities in this area, so that it can help industry customers directly connect its resource capabilities in its DBOS (database organization system), thereby saving a lot of resources.
"This is also the difference and highlight of Lenovo Lingtuo's differentiation. That is to say, we can now use new technologies such as cloud native to help industry customers manage and integrate data at the platform level, and even integrate software-defined and traditional storage. Together, this can form a unified management from the most basic management control to background resource allocation, resource use, and future resource forecasting. Therefore, for Lenovo Lingtuo, we not only provide a single product, but A complete platform-level integration solution." Lin Yousheng said.
It is worth mentioning that, in addition to "inheriting" the "gene" of NetApp's technological innovation, Lenovo Lingtuo has also achieved new breakthroughs in the field of professional services, especially the transformation of the parent company Lenovo in the service business in the past few years. To a certain extent, it has driven Lenovo Lingtuo's transformation and upgrading at the service business level.
Lin Yousheng said: "With the changes in the external environment and the acceleration of digital transformation in the industry, especially for some medium and large customers, their future procurement models will be service-centric, not just hardware delivery-centric. We have also made some investments and attempts in this area, especially in terms of distributed and cloud services. Lenovo Lingtuo is also providing leasing or cloud services to industry customers through this packaged or subscription service model innovation. , we can not only provide customers with more customized professional services, but also form a differentiated competitiveness. It is estimated that by next year, this innovative service model is expected to increase to 25%-30% of Lenovo Lingtuo's business % of the proportion."
It can be seen that through technological innovation and service model transformation, Lenovo Lingtuo is also using its unique value advantages to further help more Chinese companies release the value of data, accelerate business innovation and development, and meet more and more customers. Industry customers' latest demands on data and next-generation storage infrastructure.
Digital and real integration boosts industry development
We know that data releases value through continuous interaction with business scenarios during the entire lifecycle flow of enterprise business processes. Data is gathered into information, information is refined into knowledge, and knowledge is transformed into decision-making, allowing enterprises to acquire new capabilities to cope with and solve the complexity and uncertainty in the production and operation process, which means that only more in-depth industries and in-depth applications Scenarios, promote the integration of data and reality in hundreds of industries, in order to maximize the release of data value.
Based on this, Lenovo Lingtuo has also continued to penetrate into industries such as finance, medical care, smart cities, manufacturing, and radio and television in the past few years, bringing more leading intelligent data management solutions to industry customers, and contributing more to the construction of digital China.
In the financial industry, it can be seen that the financial industry is experiencing a "differentiation" of polarization. The core business focuses on performance and centralization, but more focus is on the field of innovation, which also makes the procurement model of the financial industry more obvious. With the changes, more and more financial companies are adopting the "combination boxing" model, combining key applications with platform construction, either building their own private cloud, or using a trusted public cloud to process quantitative data.
In response to this change, Lenovo Lingtuo has also gained some experience in digital transformation in the process of working with customers in the financial industry, and has created Lenovo Lingtuo financial industry data management solutions. In the future, Lenovo Lingtuo hopes to use these experiences Share and grow together with more financial industry customers, and help the entire financial industry to better realize digital transformation.
In the medical industry, smart medical care is gradually covering all aspects of the hospital. The most intuitive feeling is that many people no longer need to spend a whole day to see a doctor. information for more accurate diagnoses and more treatment options for patients.
Similarly, Lenovo Lingtuo is also actively innovating with industry customers in the medical field. For example, Lenovo Lingtuo has helped hospitals optimize their infrastructure capabilities by integrating with different PAS (patient management systems). Now, whether it is accessing films, performing CT operations, etc., patients can see the results immediately. In addition, Lenovo Lingtuo also created "Emergency 1110: HIS System Database Backup and Disaster Recovery Integrated Solution" , which can accurately respond to the needs of data encryption storage, data transmission between multiple hospitals, richer and more secure backup and disaster recovery topology, etc. , and in terms of data transmission and storage, it has strong capabilities such as security and encryption, and can also provide effective and powerful security guarantees for the information construction of one hospital and multiple districts.
In the field of manufacturing, with the gradual recovery of the manufacturing industry in the first half of the year, it can also be seen that more manufacturing companies are using new technologies to rapidly improve their business. Therefore, data management in some fields including EDA (electronic design automation) and automobile manufacturing has also developed. More explosive demands.
Especially in the field of EDA, Lenovo Lingtuo has achieved a high market growth rate. The core reason is that Lenovo Lingtuo has strong technical strength in this field, especially in the recent SPEC EDA documents of Lenovo Lingtuo, the parent company of Lenovo Lingtuo. It won the first place in the storage performance test and broke the world record. It is understood that this test simulates file storage performance under different workload scenarios, including five typical scenarios: AI image processing, EDA, genomics, software compilation and video data acquisition, through job or compilation, ORT (total response Time) and MBps and other indicators effectively verify the performance of storage systems of different vendors. The NetApp AFF A900 flagship all-flash array provided by Lenovo Lingtuo participated in this test. The data shows that NetApp is far ahead in the EDA test, leading the world record with a comprehensive score of 6300 points, and easily breaking the previous record of 3600 points set by the WEKA system.
In this regard, Lin Yousheng finally said: "This year is the fourth year of Lenovo Lingtuo's establishment. Through continuous in-depth exploration and rooting in the industry in the past few years, we have seen market opportunities in more industries and accumulated more experience. With a lot of experience and practice, Lenovo Lingtuo has the ability and confidence to make greater breakthroughs in the industry market with the accumulation of long-term technology in the past, the understanding of industry needs, and continuous technological innovation and breakthroughs.”
The full text concludes that Lenovo Lingtuo is playing an important supporting role in accelerating the digital transformation of industry customers through continuous and all-round innovation. The value reconstruction of storage infrastructure, I believe that this "advance with the times" innovation ability will also accelerate Lenovo Lingtuo's integration into the wave of digital China's development and contribute higher value.
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