Lenovo today announced an expansive series of new data storage, virtualisation solutions and data management services, designed to help customers modernise their IT and data infrastructure for powering enterprise applications and AI ready capabilities. Today’s new offerings include new Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile data storage and virtualisation solutions, announced in tandem with data management services. Designed to provide a modern foundation for enterprises and mid-size businesses achieving AI innovations, this announcement combines complementary hardware, software and services offerings to help deploy, manage, and unleash the true potential of enterprise data.
63% of organisations either do not have or are unsure if they have the right data management practices for AI, according to a survey by Gartner ®.[1] Customer unique data is the differentiation that will drive their competitive advantage and most accurate results, however according to IDC reporting, 80% of storage deployed in the last five years is on slower hard drive-based storage, that is not optimised for AI. At the same time, customers are challenged with new virtualisation and containerisation requirements that demand open solutions. Businesses must mitigate this risk by ensuring their enterprise data systems and practices are modernised for advanced use cases.
“With rapid shifts in virtualisation and the growing demand for AI-ready data, many organisations are looking for open, modern infrastructure that can support both. Lenovo’s new storage solutions and services provide that foundation by improving performance, security, and operational simplicity,” said Sumir Bhatia, President, Asia Pacific, ISG, Lenovo. “These offerings help customers prepare their data, streamline deployment, and extract more value from their existing environments as they advance their AI strategy.”
Kumar Mitra, Executive Director, CAP & ANZ, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Lenovo says “Across GTAP markets, organisations are accelerating cloud, AI, and modernisation agendas but need solutions that deliver value from day one. Lenovo’s enhanced storage and data services provide the operational simplicity, hybrid flexibility, and cost efficiency our customers expect. We’re committed to supporting them with technologies that reduce complexity, strengthen cyber resiliency, and create a clear path toward AI-ready infrastructure.”
Flexibility and Choice for Virtualisation and Data Needs
Businesses today need the efficiency and cyber resiliency of their systems to run parallel to performance, simplicity, and scalability with an option to deploy on-prem and hybrid so that the data can stay in place for compliance while AI workloads run where appropriate. Lenovo has introduced new Lenovo ThinkSystem and Lenovo ThinkAgile Enterprise offerings optimised or AI, virtualisation and storage bottlenecks, including:
Lenovo ThinkSystem DS Series Storage Arrays: All-flash and protected Storage Area Network (SAN) block storage systems that are simple to deploy and manage for virtualised environments, improving performance and efficiency for virtualisation and data modernisation.
- Lenovo ThinkAgile FX Series:Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) that delivers an open architecture that supports seamless conversion between select HCI solutions without replacing hardware, delivering maximum investment protection and flexibility.
- Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Series for disaggregated storage for Microsoft Azure Local: As a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) integrated appliance provider with Microsoft, we are expanding support for disaggregated external Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SAN to deliver greater enterprise storage support for virtualisation customers.
- Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Series with NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000: Integrated next generation GPU support to power advanced AI performance capabilities for enterprise inferencing with Microsoft Azure Local.
- Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series for AILenovo’s HCI offering features Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) software stack to enable customers running in virtualised and distributed containerised environments to deploy, run, and scale AI models in minutes.
Complete Lifecycle Services Optimised for Advanced Workloads including AI
To help customers fully realise the benefits of their new systems and prepare their data for AI, Lenovo is extending this momentum with a broad portfolio of hybrid cloud and data lifecycle services. These offerings modernise environments, strengthen reliability, and support evolving storage and AI workload demands. This includes Lenovo Deployment Services for ThinkAgile and ThinkSystem to accelerate time to value, along with flexible storage services available individually or through Lenovo TruScale to enhance performance and agility across the data lifecycle.
To guide long-term strategy, Lenovo’s Hybrid Cloud Advisory Services help organisations align on-prem and hybrid environments with compliance, data protection, and operational goals, while Lenovo Migration Services optimise data and workloads by combining cloud flexibility with existing infrastructure.
As part of the expanded Data Management Services portfolio, Lenovo Premier Enhanced Storage Support provides storage-focused, expert-led assistance for critical workloads. With proactive monitoring, performance optimisation, and guided issue resolution, customers gain the resilience and protection needed to support AI innovation and hybrid cloud growth.
[1] Gartner Press Release, Lack of AI-Ready Data Pus AI Projects at Risk, February 26. 2025 GARTNER is a trademark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates.
