Foreword: To win more opportunities, "breaking the situation and seeking change" is particularly important.
[Global Storage Observation｜Hot Spotlight] On February 25, 2019, following the "dual genes" of Lenovo Group and NetApp, Lenovo Lingtuo was officially established. After more than four years of development, Lenovo Lingtuo has become one of the top manufacturers in the field of enterprise-level data management in China.
Today, however, the market for data management is highly competitive. For any manufacturer, it is particularly important to "break the situation and seek change" if it wants to achieve in-depth development and win more opportunities in the "digital intelligence era".
So, from "number" to "deep", where does Lenovo Lingtuo have the confidence to "break the situation and seek change"?
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"In-depth and strong foundation": forging the cornerstone of cloud intelligence and embracing the intelligent era
The industry has reached a consensus: data storage and management are not only the cornerstone of building a digital China, but also the cornerstone of cloud intelligence development. From the development of "digital economy" to the construction of "digital China", it is on the road of data innovation created by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, cloud computing, and edge computing. Building a data-centric IT infrastructure is the digital achievement of many enterprises. the key to success.
As far as the strategy of consolidating the cornerstone of digitalization is concerned, Lenovo Lingtuo is actively embracing intelligence in the storage product line, fully covering the two major areas of centralized storage and distributed storage, and working together to help enterprise users win opportunities for business innovation.
In terms of centralized storage, relying on the innovative strength of the two engines of high-performance SAN technology system and unified storage technology system, Lenovo Lingtuo has taken the lead in providing NVMe solutions in the entry-level DE series storage, providing customers with ultra-high-performance data access services DE6400 series and DE6600 series all-flash storage. Among them, the DE6600 series has a super performance of 2 million IOPS, taking into account the high availability of "six nines", meeting the high performance and high availability requirements of users in the artificial intelligence and HPC fields.
In terms of distributed storage, Lenovo Lingtuo strives for innovation and self-development in the distributed technology system and object storage technology system. Among them, Lenovo Lingtuo's self-developed distributed software-defined storage ThinkSystem DXN's software core operating system MagnaScale data management platform not only meets the growing demand of enterprise users for object storage services, but also meets the "file + object" data access service need. The MagnaScale data management platform also provides users with a software-only mode of decoupling software and hardware, with high flexibility to support and adapt to more third-party hardware platforms. In addition, it also provides remote disaster recovery functions for enterprise users to avoid data loss and protect data.
In fact, forging the cornerstone of cloud intelligence must be inseparable from rich cloud data management software. Based on its own core technology system of data management, Lenovo Lingtuo has built a cloud service product line. After upgrading the Data Fabric to the Resources Fabric, Lenovo Lingtuo is more focused on meeting the changes in enterprise needs caused by the rapid growth of data. According to the analysis of Global Storage Observation, Lenovo Lingtuo, as the first professional data management manufacturer in the industry to focus on connecting with the public cloud, has now taken a multi-pronged approach and is fully moving towards the cloud.
Moving to the cloud, Lenovo Lingtuo solves the pain points of cloud migration for enterprise users, and applications can seamlessly migrate to the cloud without changing the architecture. In the process of simplifying the migration of applications to the cloud, it is inseparable to use the same source storage technology as the self-owned data center. At the same time, the cloud management platform Astra Control Center provides enterprise users with cloud unified resource management services.
In addition, with the two blessings of Cloud Insight focusing on cloud resource management efficiency and Data Sense focusing on data governance and application, Lenovo Lingtuo has greatly enriched cloud data management software and support services for enterprise users. It is worth mentioning that Cloud Insight, which is the result of continuous in-depth empowerment of enterprise users' proprietary cloud services, quickly builds a modern data management "bridge" for enterprises.
For the future development of Yunzhi, Lenovo Lingtuo hopes to create an innovative platform with the help of container technology, and organically combine with "cloud" and traditional storage. At present, in terms of containers, Lenovo Lingtuo can provide flexible resource deployment and elastic management for enterprise users; at the same time, it cooperates with enterprise-level data management technology to realize unified management of overall resources and help enterprises obtain enterprise-level data management functions and security in the cloud .
It can be seen that Lenovo Lingtuo is not only forging the cornerstone of Yunzhi, but also building a comprehensive technical system for future-oriented integrated resource management, data insight, data flow, data governance and data management. In the era of digital intelligence, enterprise users must rely on it if they want to seize the opportunity, otherwise what else can they rely on?
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"In-depth innovation": standing on the shoulders of giants, accelerating the digitalization of enterprises
Forging a strong cornerstone will certainly help to enhance the enterprise's sufficient confidence in digital transformation and upgrading, enhance the enterprise's sufficient trust in the data-centric IT infrastructure, enhance the competitiveness and comprehensive strength of the enterprise in the process of digitalization, and win its own brand new develop. However, the Global Storage Observation analysis believes that the premise of realizing all this is still inseparable from in-depth innovation.
Lin Yousheng, Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing, Lenovo Lingtuo
Lin Yousheng, senior director of product management and marketing of Lenovo Lingtuo, said that since its establishment, Lenovo Lingtuo has adhered to the road of comprehensive innovation of self-developed storage, traditional core storage and cloud-oriented containerized storage, and deeply mines data for enterprise users from multiple dimensions The value of storage and management has forged a vital and powerful cornerstone for the digital development of thousands of industries.
Standing on the shoulders of giants, Lenovo Lingtuo has a unique driving force for innovation. With the support of the superior resources of Lenovo and NetApp, the technical innovation and development of data storage and data management not only effectively avoid the pitfalls in the development of enterprise-level storage, but also can be very targeted to choose more suitable for yourself. Development, while meeting the technical route of user needs.
On the road of R&D and technological innovation, Lenovo Lingtuo has always maintained a pace rarely seen in the industry.
On the one hand, Lenovo Lingtuo is one of the earliest manufacturers in the industry to integrate enterprise-level storage into the public cloud and open up the road to storage cloudification. At present, Lenovo Lingtuo has cooperated with many public cloud manufacturers to provide cloud data management software and support services; on the other hand, it focuses on the development trend of massive distributed storage and all-flash memory, and empowers the comprehensive needs of enterprises' digital upgrade and transformation.
Focusing on the explosive growth of users' massive data storage needs, Lenovo Lingtuo innovated and responded. Previously, based on the Haiguang 7000 series CPU and using the Lenovo server platform, Lenovo Lingtuo launched the nationally produced distributed NAS storage ThinkSystem DF series, focusing on meeting the data management needs of enterprises for massive storage, security and reliability, and smooth linear expansion of capacity and performance. .
Of course, the self-developed ThinkSystem DXN enterprise-level distributed software-defined storage system has also been highly recognized by the industry, achieving full improvements in protocol support, performance acceleration, scalability, and data protection. The DXN single cluster expands to more than 4000 nodes, and the bandwidth capacity increases linearly with the increase of node data. In addition, a set of clusters provides multi-protocol and ecological support such as CIFS, NFS, FTP, S3, OpenStack, and Kubernetes CSI. It can accommodate tens of billions of files, supports decoupling of software and hardware, and easily manages massive data.
Lenovo Lingtuo ThinkSystem DXN distributed software-defined storage focuses on application scenarios such as video surveillance, manufacturing, autonomous driving, and medical PACS imaging. Especially in the storage scenario of massive medical image data generated by the PACS system in the medical field, DXN provides various storage access protocols such as NAS, object, and FTP, which can fully meet the storage service needs of hospital PACS system image data. On the road to assisting the digital development of enterprises, the ThinkSystem DXN distributed software-defined storage series can comprehensively and deeply mine the value of data and realize a more intelligent data management mode.
On the road of all-flash memory innovation, Lenovo Lingtuo continues to accelerate the digitalization process of empowering enterprises. In order to meet the high storage performance requirements of enterprise users in application scenarios such as artificial intelligence and high-performance databases, Lenovo Lingtuo accelerated the innovation of all-flash product series. It has successively been shortlisted for the all-flash centralized procurement of China Mobile and China Unicom, ranking first in the share of China Mobile's all-flash centralized procurement.
The reason why we should vigorously develop all-flash memory is inseparable from the development trend of flash memory technology itself and the needs of enterprise users themselves. Based on the fact that Chinese enterprise users place particular emphasis on cost-effective storage, even if there is no decline in the cost of QLC and TLC memory chips, the price of all-flash memory products has been on a downward trend. Under the influence of factors such as the epidemic, shortage of memory chips, and tight supply chains, the price cuts of all-flash memory products have been very drastic, which has further stimulated the purchase of enterprise users.
In addition, enterprise users such as finance and high-tech manufacturing have more and higher requirements on storage performance, which further accelerates the application of all-flash products in the industry. Judging from Lenovo Lingtuo's own sales performance, from 2022 to the first half of this year, the sales ratio of the all-flash memory product series has exceeded half. Of course, these achievements are inseparable from the two-way support of Lenovo and NetApp, as well as Lenovo Lingtuo's own innovation capabilities.
Lu Daxin, CEO of Lenovo Lingtuo
It can be seen that standing on the shoulders of giants, Lenovo Lingtuo has made in-depth innovations and brought many surprises to the industry. Previously, Lu Daxin, CEO of Lenovo Lingtuo, mentioned that Lenovo Lingtuo will focus on breakthroughs in two directions: one is to let self-developed products go out and support the global plan (in China for Global), and the other is to make products and technologies to the global market. Application side extension. In this way, Lenovo Lingtuo's strategy of in-depth innovation will have more room for imagination.
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"Deep into the Trend": Join hands with ecology to build a new future of "Digital China"
It is true that on the road to promote the development of "Digital China", it is far from enough to rely on a certain digital supplier, and the power of ecology is indispensable.
In fact, building a top manufacturer in China's enterprise-level storage and data management industry must not only be marked by breakthroughs in independent innovation, but also must be supported by a mature ecosystem partner system. Therefore, data management vendors should continue to invest and make efforts to build a partner ecosystem, which is also one of the keys to empowering enterprises to succeed in digitalization.
Since the power of ecology plays a decisive role in the development of any enterprise-level manufacturer in any development period; then, how to "win" new digital opportunities together? Lenovo Lingtuo not only embraces the trend, but also goes deep into the trend, and join hands with ecological partners to dream of a new future of "Digital China".
On the one hand, Lenovo Lingtuo cooperates with public cloud vendors to provide users with a secure and verified unified cloud storage service with all ONTAP functions. To this end, enterprise-level storage functions such as data control, deduplication, and data compression are integrated with the supply of elastic resources on the cloud platform to maximize storage efficiency and give full play to the advantages of innovative cloud services in data management to meet the requirements of the cloud environment. According to the needs of data access and asset management, it helps enterprise users cope with a wide range of workloads.
On the other hand, Lenovo Lingtuo joined hands with ecological partners to bring Lenovo Lingtuo's full line of products to more remote markets. From vertical industry partners to regional partners, Lenovo Lingtuo is also taking advantage of Lenovo's advantages to spread its channel system in China to reach a wider market, enabling global enterprise-level storage and data management technologies to benefit more users. Carry out all-round optimization and upgrading in terms of customer coverage, industry coverage and regional coverage, so as to win more development opportunities.
Global storage observation analysis pointed out that the wave of the digital age is rolling forward, and the construction of "digital China" cannot do without "cornerstone" forgers like Lenovo Lingtuo.
Empowering thousands of industries, moving from "number" to "deep", Lenovo Lingtuo focuses on the digital development of vertical industries such as finance, manufacturing, education, and medical care, and goes deep into the trend of cloud and intelligence to create new advantages in the digital economy. Relying on the innovation strength of its own technology, products, solutions and services, Lenovo Lingtuo will continue to deepen the key application fields of industry data value, build a comprehensive strategy for digital innovation, break the situation and seek changes, and continue to inject innovation momentum into the construction of "Digital China" .
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