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Nowadays, all walks of life are transforming to digitalization and intelligence. Through the application of artificial intelligence, big data and Internet of Things and other technologies, the huge potential value contained in data is continuously tapped to drive the innovation, transformation and upgrading of business. Businesses need to do their best to leverage digital assets to stay on top of this new wave of change.

To achieve this goal, IT infrastructure plays a critical role, and enterprises need to build an efficient, reliable, and agile IT infrastructure system that supports business applications through underlying resources such as compute, storage, and networking. As this demand increases, IT infrastructure providers are constantly upgrading and optimizing their products and solutions.

Recently, Intel released the second generation Xeon Scalable processor, which attracted wide attention in the industry. Lenovo, an industry-leading product and service provider, also launched a new upgrade to its ThinkSystem server portfolio based on a new generation of Xeon ® processors. With the theme of "Flash Classic, Smart Future," Lenovo launched the concept of All Flash Plus server. In addition to the new Xeon ® scalable processor, the new concept also includes Lenovo's unique TruDDR4 memory, Intel ® Aoteng TM data center-class persistent memory and Lenovo customized solid-state disk.

Through the all-flash plus upgrade of ThinkSystem servers, Lenovo is committed to driving the intelligent transformation of data centers, helping enterprises solve IT infrastructure challenges, and further promoting enterprise transformation and upgrading and business innovation in the new era, releasing efficiency dividends.

We can see that China has gradually shifted from an era of high growth to an era of stable development with high quality. As a global high-tech enterprise, Lenovo has always taken "Lenovo Smart China" as its strategic vision, relying on data, computing power and algorithms, and promoting the development of the whole Smart China through intelligent IoT devices, intelligent infrastructure, industry intelligent solutions, etc.

All Flash Plus--Lenovo ThinkSystem How to "flash" classic?

What is a classic? Lenovo has 27 years of server R & D experience and strong technical strength. In order to improve product capabilities, Lenovo constantly carries out technological breakthroughs and innovative exploration. Since 2001, Lenovo has won more than 300 benchmark world records, and is currently the IT vendor with the most server world records. ThinkSystem Server has won 136 world records, including 79 based on the second generation Intel ® Xeon ® Scalable Processor, covering mainstream business applications such as database, virtualization, big data, and high performance computing. In the field of high-performance computing, Lenovo also achieved the world's first share in the global supercomputing TOP500 list. It can be seen that Lenovo's position in the world is far ahead in terms of server performance.

Lenovo itself also has two very classic traditions in product research and development, the first is "performance is king," in the product design, to the end as the beginning, performance as a very critical point; the second is the margin design, in the product development, with higher standards, more stringent environment, the server related testing, in order to cope with more complex environment. "

How to "flash"? Lenovo's new All Flash Plus upgrade to ThinkSystem servers has achieved leapfrog improvements in machine performance to create "extreme" performance. Up to 39% performance improvement over previous generation with 2nd generation Intel ® Xeon ® Scalable processors. ThinkSystem servers feature TruDDR4 technology (Series 6 and Series 8) that delivers performance up to 2933MHz while providing large memory capacity in single-channel dual-memory mode, increasing overall performance by 5%.

At the same time, the next generation ThinkSystem servers feature Intel ® OptanceTM Datacenter Class Persistent Memory, which is designed for data center workloads, using a new medium with performance between memory and NAND Flash to help data centers achieve more economical memory expansion with high capacity, reliability and data persistence.

In addition, Lenovo also releases higher performance by matching SSD with different interface types such as NVMe, SAS and SATA. The All Flash Plus architecture boosts processor performance on deep learning and AI workloads by up to 6% per core, and hardware security performance inherits the enhancements of Intel processor technology to fully meet users 'demands for higher and higher data transfer speeds and advanced computing performance. At the same time, ThinkSystem servers can also support LiCO platforms, simplify HPC and AI workloads and cluster resource management, support NB-IOT chips, data aggregation platforms, car networking, etc.

As Lenovo's flagship server, ThinkSystem SR950 is called "King of Performance" by Lenovo. It is a business-critical server that supports expansion from 2-way to 8-way processors in 4U space and can be upgraded as needed. It supports up to 224 physical cores and up to 24TB of memory. SR950 adopts a fully modular design, including computing modules, storage modules, cooling modules, etc., for easy maintenance and upgrading in the rack. It is worth mentioning again that the upgraded SR950 also supports Intel ® OptanceTM Datacenter class persistent memory.

Ultimate design and service support for safety and reliability

From the "margin design" mentioned above, we can see Lenovo ThinkSystem's pursuit of server quality and reliability. Lenovo ThinkSystem servers have passed a number of extreme tests, including the most advanced Agilent PCIe3.0 functional test, industry-wide Nessue and industry-leading IBM Appscan security tests to test the server factory state to the most stringent requirements to ensure product reliability. Lenovo Server achieved the highest record in the ITIC Global Server Reliability Survey for six consecutive years, while Lenovo Server ranked first in global customer satisfaction for nine consecutive times in the TBR Enterprise IT Purchasing Behavior and Customer Satisfaction Survey.

National testing agencies NCTC and NIM tested Lenovo ThinkSystem server from 13 sub-items such as reliability, environmental performance, low radiation, safety and energy efficiency, and the certification results were higher than industry standards. Lenovo ThinkSystem server has achieved MTBF certification of 150,000 hours, becoming the first manufacturer in the industry to test MTBF of 150,000 hours for servers.

Lenovo servers are also equipped with a similar aircraft "black box" function-First Failure Data Snapshot (FFDC), which collects information about all server hardware based on "event" triggers, helping users to quickly diagnose and repair. It can also predict and predict faults in advance through "active health guard," so as to realize rapid problem location and solution.

In addition, Lenovo also provides support services covering 165 countries/regions around the world, setting up 3000 on-site service locations, which can quickly respond to user needs and provide comprehensive and stable business operation support for users in a more reliable way.

From this brand-new upgrade to ThinkSystem servers, we can see Lenovo's great determination to empower digital transformation and promote the progress of Smart China. With the wide popularity of big data, artificial intelligence and other applications, the efficiency and reliability of IT infrastructure have received unprecedented attention. With the ultimate pursuit of high performance and safety reliability, Lenovo is striving to help enterprises realize rapid transformation with higher quality, fully enjoy the "efficiency dividend" and obtain digital value.

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