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Lenovo Announces a New Alliance with VMware to Deliver Purpose-Built Software-Defined Data Center SolutionsBARCELONA, Spain --(Business Wire)-- Lenovo (SEHK:0992) (Pink Sheets:LNVGY), the world's third largest x86 server business since its acquisition of IBM's (News - Alert) System x server business, today announced plans for broad collaboration and partnership with VMware to help clients fully realize the benefits of a software-defined data center by delivering compelling new IT infrastructure solutions for private and hybrid cloud, end user computing, and virtualization. This alliance extends the 16 year development relationship between System x and VMware, which has produced a number of innovations including the first VMware embedded hypervisor and broadens the alliance to include the full range of Lenovo's (News - Alert) expanded server business. Software-defined data center technologies extend the concept of server virtualization to networking and storage infrastructure resources, enabling delivery of compute, networking, and storage resources as a service. Lenovo and VMware solutions will bring together Lenovo's servers and networking hardware with VMware infrastructure to help enterprises and service providers simplify the data center, speed application provisioning, and reduce costs. Areas of collaboration include:
Adalio Sanchez, senior vice president, Enterprise Systems Group, Lenovo, said, "By leveraging the strengths and respective geographic reach of our teams, we see significant synergy in delivering end-to-end designed-for-cloud infrastructures to our customers and their service providers." About Lenovo Lenovo (SEHK:0992) (Pink Sheets:LNVGY) is a $39 billion global Fortune 500 company and a leader in providing innovative consumer, commercial, and enterprise technology. Our portfolio of high-quality, secure products and services covers PCs (including the legendary Think and multimode Yoga brands), workstations, servers, storage, smart TVs and a family of mobile products, including smartphones, tablets and apps. Join us on LinkedIn, follow us on Facebook or Twitter (News - Alert) (@Lenovo) or visit us at www.lenovo.com. VMware,VMware NSX, VMware Virtual SAN and VMware Horizon are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. The use of the word "partner" or "partnership" does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.
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