This latest set of announcements from Lenovo is notable for a couple of reasons. First, they underscore its ability to offer customers a comprehensive range of modern, efficient and flexible storage capabilities that span all major use cases, from performance-centric to capacity-oriented, all major protocols and access methods, and from software defined and converged, to disaggregated. Notably, they are also available to purchase via multiple consumption models, from traditional Capex to more consumption-oriented (i.e. Lenovo TruScale).

Though these are important capabilities for any serious storage provider to offer, IT leaders are increasingly demanding not just point-products, but more complete solutions that help them achiever their own objectives and outcomes. Hence, arguably the more important aspect of the announcement is the significant investment Lenovo is making to create integrated solutions that bring together not only its own capabilities but increasingly include deep integration with third-party capabilities. There’s an impressive amount of work going on here, all directed at reducing the heavy lifting for customers, which should translate into boosting time to value and reducing longer term operational costs.

This approach should be especially attractive for more mainstream customers looking to make a fast start around AI, though the importance of this approach for more traditional virtualized workloads should not be overlooked. In short, organizations looking to modernize their data and storage environment should be sure to include Lenovo solutions as part of their process.