In January, I spent a few days with the senior leadership team of #Lenovo ’s enterprise group in Raleigh North Carolina. A lot of the players have changed since then, but what has been consistent is Lenovo’s objective to provide broader enterprise solutions. Most of my questions at Lenovo’s analyst conference were about software and where they were going with #SoftwareDefinedInfrastructure, or #SDI.
SDI is the hottest thing that has hit the enterprise since the web and Moor Insights & Strategy has been covering it for four years before it became cool to do so. The promise of SDI is to convert IT to a more “public cloud-like” model inside the enterprise with the goals to speed up app deployment and make it more flexible, provide a public-cloud like charging mechanism, and reduce costs versus more proprietary solutions. In terms of maturity, I would say we are in the third inning of a nine inning baseball game. New #hyperscale deployments are fully SDI while larger enterprise have completed POCs (proof of concepts) and are beginning their deployments. Small and medium businesses are kicking the tires.
With this latest #Nutanix announcement, we’re seeing Lenovo, traditionally seen as a hardware company, partnering with multiple SDI companies to deliver hyperconverged infrastructure solutions to the enterprise market. As a result of this latest announcement, Lenovo and Nutanix will work together to create a new family of Lenovo hyperconverged appliances utilizing Nutanix’s software designed to run virtualized apps and provide a storage platform, too. This is in addition to Lenovo’s cloud announcement with #RedHat to deliver new complete #OpenStack-based SDI solutions to Lenovo’s customers.
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