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Channel Post MEA
a day ago
- Business
- Channel Post MEA
Lenovo Accelerates Enterprise AI Transformation With New Applications
Lenovo has expanded Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage with new advisory and implementation services, industry solutions and hybrid AI platforms that deliver the modern infrastructure and full-stack capabilities essential to transforming enterprise IT for the age of AI. With the expansion, Lenovo is delivering the complete framework for enterprises to build, scale and operate AI factories built on high-performance servers with accelerated computing, networking, and partner integrations. Together, the new validated solutions, services and platforms help businesses speed the deployment of purpose-built AI across all environments while unlocking faster business value with productivity, agility and trust. According to Lenovo's Global CIO Playbook , two-thirds of organizations have yet to see ROI from AI investments while struggling to scale effectively due to training, adoption and technical gaps. In addition, as AI budgets triple to nearly 20% of IT budgets in 2025 , enterprise IT must modernize with infrastructure that delivers the efficiency, performance and scalability needed to achieve ROI. 'Lenovo is leading hybrid AI with groundbreaking advancements in integrated solutions that are driving industry-wide innovation and making enterprise-level AI attainable for every business,' said Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, President, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Lenovo. 'With these solutions and trusted partnerships, Lenovo is turning AI into reality with use cases and services that have been tested and proven to drive measurable productivity gains, boost satisfaction, and unlock data for real business value faster.' Lenovo is leading this transformation with hybrid AI infrastructure, solutions and services for any workload, anytime and anywhere. Since announcing its billion-dollar investment in accelerating AI deployment for businesses around the world, Lenovo has continued with almost 40% year-over-year increase in customer adoptions worldwide . Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage brings together the AI infrastructure, data, models, services and proven use cases to help businesses activate AI across their entire workforce, operations, and data footprint. With Lenovo services, AI-adoption frameworks for generative AI tools can accelerate productivity and efficiency with a 31% increase in time saved per week . AI-Enabling Services that Support Scalable Infrastructure Despite the rapid rise of AI in the workplace, half of employees feel they receive only moderate support for AI training — a critical gap that stalls adoption and delays ROI without structured enablement. Lenovo AI Adoption and Change Management Services are tailored to help organizations assess their AI readiness, upskill their workforce, boost engagement, and maximize ROI from their enterprise systems through persona-based change management and best practices. Key applications include: Lenovo AI People Readiness Assessment: Assess employee readiness for AI transformation and identify targeted enablement strategies, personas, and high-impact use cases. Persona-Based Training & Engagement: Tailor adoption programs based on employee roles to accelerate confidence, reduce resistance, and boost engagement. Copilot Adoption: Equip employees to successfully integrate generative AI tools, like Copilot through targeted training, change planning, and productivity tracking. AI Governance & Cultural Readiness: Help leadership and teams align on responsible AI use, overcome resistance, and embed AI-friendly ways of working. 'AI adoption demands a clear strategy, trusted expertise, and the right technology mix that can accelerate time to value. With the Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage, we are helping customers turn AI potential into real performance gains, enabling every part of the organization to work smarter, faster, and with greater confidence,' said Ken Wong, Executive Vice President and President, Solutions and Services Group, Lenovo. With the new services, Lenovo has driven real, measurable outcomes across an extensive range of verticals while empowering teams to work confidently with AI. Recently, Lenovo accelerated a leading airline's AI-powered digital workplace transformation and increased operational efficiencies through a three-month advisory, plan and design program. Elsewhere, the services combined with Lenovo solutions are supercharging AI workflows for faster medical diagnoses, scientific discovery and manufacturing outcomes. Driving Industry Transformation with Validated, Purpose-Built AI Solutions Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage empowers enterprises to move beyond experimentation and deliver measurable outcomes across their entire organization. To bridge the gap between AI ambition and real-world impact, businesses need trusted AI applications that address key business use cases and scale to support business workflows. Leveraging validated Lenovo AI Innovator designs with ISVs, new Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage Solutions are easy to customize, performance-tuned and tested, delivering real business workflows and use cases on hybrid AI platforms: Hospitality with Centific AI Data Foundry and NVIDIA: Enables hotels and resorts with capabilities that boost guest loyalty, optimize efficiency, and drive profitability. These include real-time personalization, streamlined operations, and data-driven insights. Workplace Safety & PPE Compliance with Avathon Visual AI and NVIDIA: Powers real-time hazard and PPE compliance monitoring, to instantly detect safety risks, violations and hazardous behaviors. Working with existing camera infrastructure for seamless integration and deployment, the solution also automates corrective actions to prevent accidents. Retail and Smart Spaces with WaitTime and Intel: Delivers real-time crowd analytics via Edge AI-based computer vision and transforms camera feeds into instant insights that drive revenue growth and enhance guest satisfaction by up to 30% in some deployments. Quality Inspection with Trifork and NVIDIA: Delivers automated defect detection, on-device model retraining and transforms real-time sensor data into actionable insights on the factory floor. Expanded Ecosystem Delivers the Hybrid AI Factory of Modern Business The expansion builds on Lenovo partnerships with Cisco , IBM and NVIDIA , delivering new integrated solutions that accelerates global enterprise AI adoption. Built on advanced, energy-efficient AI infrastructure integrated with accelerated computing, networking, switching and software from industry-leading partners, new platforms help enterprises build, scale and operate hybrid AI factories: New Lenovo ThinkSystem SR680a V4 system: Built to unleash AI's potential by delivering massive computational performance for model development, graphical and simulation workloads across any industry. The air-cooled system features Intel Xeon 6 CPUs and eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs interconnected with high-speed NVIDIA NVLink for unparalleled computational power and acceleration, as well as eight NVIDIA SuperNICs and an NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU to accelerate network connectivity, data access and secure AI workloads . The new system delivers up to 11x faster AI inferencing on large language models, as well as 7x computational capability and 4x more memory compared to previous generations. Lenovo hybrid AI platform with IBM watsonx: Based on a new integration with IBM watsonx technologies and Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 servers, the platform delivers ready-to-deploy, high-performance AI infrastructure, Red Hat OpenShift and NVIDIA, accelerating generative AI model development, deployment and governance. The availability of a new validated design will help clients accelerate time to value for Generative AI. Lenovo Hybrid AI platform with Cisco : The enhanced platform will support Cisco Nexus switches with NVIDIA Spectrum-X technology for boosting enterprise AI factory deployments, enabling 1.6x faster AI network performance and efficient networking management with Cisco Nexus Dashboard in a single design. The platform supports AI use cases as new, greenfield environments or extensions of existing IT infrastructure. Built on the powerful Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 server supporting up to eight NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, NVIDIA SuperNICs, and NVIDIA BlueField-3, the platform provides enterprises with a universal data center system to power AI factories — driving the shift from CPU-based systems to efficient GPU-accelerated infrastructure. Regardless of where enterprises are on their AI journey, Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage solutions and services help customers achieve real business outcomes using trusted and proven AI infrastructure —whether just starting, scaling, or optimizing capabilities. Lenovo's end-to-end hybrid AI portfolio heralds a more democratized and personalized turning point for AI, with integrated solutions deployed on devices, on the edge, and in the cloud.
Techday NZ
3 days ago
- Business
- Techday NZ
Lenovo expands Hybrid AI Advantage for enterprise adoption
Lenovo has announced the expansion of Hybrid AI Advantage, introducing new services, industry-specific solutions and collaborative platforms to support enterprise adoption and deployment of artificial intelligence technologies. The initiative offers a combination of advisory, implementation, and change management services as well as hybrid AI infrastructure backed by partnerships with Cisco, IBM and NVIDIA. Lenovo aims to provide enterprises with the resources needed to build and operate AI capabilities across a variety of environments, including cloud, edge, and on-premise. Lenovo's Global CIO Playbook highlights ongoing challenges among businesses investing in AI, with two-thirds not yet seeing a return on investment, struggling particularly with scaling, training, and modernising their infrastructure. As AI spending is projected to reach almost 20% of IT budgets in 2025, Lenovo has positioned its expanded Hybrid AI Advantage to address these gaps. Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, President, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Lenovo, said: "Lenovo is leading hybrid AI with groundbreaking advancements in integrated solutions that are driving industry-wide innovation and making enterprise-level AI attainable for every business. With these solutions and trusted partnerships, Lenovo is turning AI into reality with use cases and services that have been tested and proven to drive measurable productivity gains, boost satisfaction, and unlock data for real business value faster." Alongside its billion-dollar investment in accelerating enterprise AI adoption, Lenovo has recorded a year-over-year increase of nearly 40% in customer adoptions. The company states that its services allow businesses to activate AI across their workforces and operations while documented frameworks for generative AI could lead to a reported 31% increase in time saved per week. AI-enabling services AI Adoption and Change Management Services form a core part of the expansion, with features such as AI People Readiness Assessment, persona-based training, Copilot integration, and governance support. Lenovo claims these services are designed to ready organisations for AI transformation by focusing on workforce upskilling, engagement, and onboarding of generative AI tools. Ken Wong, Executive Vice President and President, Solutions and Services Group, Lenovo, commented: "AI adoption demands a clear strategy, trusted expertise, and the right technology mix that can accelerate time to value. With the Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage, we are helping customers turn AI potential into real performance gains, enabling every part of the organisation to work smarter, faster, and with greater confidence." Lenovo cited examples of deploying its advisory services within sectors such as aviation, healthcare, and manufacturing, highlighting a recent digital workplace transformation for an airline that achieved efficiency gains through tailored programme design and planning over a three-month period. Industry use cases The Hybrid AI Advantage portfolio includes solutions targeted at manufacturing, hospitality, retail, and smart spaces. Examples include collaboration with Centific and NVIDIA for hospitality platforms focused on guest loyalty and operational efficiency, Avathon Visual AI for real-time workplace safety monitoring, and partnerships with WaitTime and Intel for crowd analytics in retail spaces. Additionally, the partnership with Trifork and NVIDIA brings automated quality inspection solutions for the manufacturing sector, using AI-powered insights for defect detection and model retraining on the factory floor. Hybrid platforms and infrastructure The expansion includes new high-performance systems such as the ThinkSystem SR680a V4, equipped with Intel Xeon 6 CPUs and eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology. The platform is designed to offer up to eleven times faster AI inferencing capabilities on large language models and up to seven times computational capacity compared to previous versions. Other components include the hybrid AI platform with IBM watsonx, which integrates with Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 servers, and a collaborative platform with Cisco, supported by NVIDIA Spectrum-X technology. The IBM watsonx platform provides validated, ready-to-deploy generative AI infrastructure, while the Cisco collaboration is aimed at boosting network performance for enterprise AI deployments. The Hybrid AI platform with Cisco is built on the ThinkSystem SR675 V3, supporting up to eight NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, and is intended as a universal data centre system that shifts workloads from CPU-based to GPU-accelerated environments. Lenovo states that regardless of an organisation's stage in its AI journey, these offerings are designed to deliver measurable business outcomes using established infrastructure and frameworks, aiming to support enterprises from initial adoption through to scaling and optimisation.
Tahawul Tech
11-03-2025
- Business
- Tahawul Tech
'Our Hybrid AI Advantage empowers enterprises to validate use-cases within 90 days' – Patricia Wilkey, Lenovo
CNME Editor Mark Forker spoke to Patricia Wilkey, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Lenovo Solutions and Services Group, in a bid to learn more on their Hybrid AI Advantage offering, the need to validate AI use-cases – and the rise of Agentic AI. Patricia Wilkey has enjoyed a thoroughly impressive career in IT. She began her career as a financial analyst, and was the Chief Financial Officer at EDS Personal Communications Corp, before pivoting into strategy and sales at EDS Corporation. Wilkey has worked for global technology players such as HP and DXC Technology, prior to joining Lenovo in 2024. She is regarded by many of her peers to be one of the best sales leaders in the industry. During LEAP 2025 in Riyadh, CNME were afforded the opportunity to sit down with Wilkey, to try and better understand how Lenovo is helping their customers leverage the most from AI. GAIN AN 'ADVANTAGE' Lenovo's Hybrid AI Advantage portfolio is empowering organisations to turn data and intelligence into business outcomes much quicker. Wilkey outlined how Lenovo's adopts a consultative approach in order to understand customer pain points, and select the AI use-case that is really going to have the impact they desire. She acknowledged business leaders are under pressure to adopt AI, and stressed the need to validate AI use-cases. 'Over the last few months, we have spent a lot of time with our customers in terms of how we can help them transition from pocket-to-cloud. We want to determine how do we help them take advantage of AI by deploying the right model. We are taking that technology piece into play, but we're also incorporating the human factor, which is essential. Our strategy straddles a lot of different elements, such as, speed, having the right execution, and having that ease of use. Ultimately, we want to ensure that we can take these solutions, and use-cases, and validate them for our customers. We have designed a model that within 90 days allows our customers to test, validate, and see a proof of value on that use-case that we are bringing forward. We are sitting down with our customers, and we're asking them what is the concept, where do you think we can have the best impact, and then we design that, and we look to validate that use-case within 90 days. We want them to get to a validation point, so they don't have to re-design everything for production,' said Wilkey. Wilkey added that Lenovo is also intensely focused on simplifying AI for their customers. 'A very important component in this AI development, is the need to validate the security framework, we bring the security, whether it is built into our device, or we use a Microsoft tool, but that is key. It is also very important for us to introduce our partner ecosystem, to determine what are they going to need to have for the compute environment. Data is the killer area for applications. We want to make sure that the general population, or the designer know that this is what it is all about. How does the application manipulate the data, and now with AI and agents the question becomes how do you make it simpler,' said Wilkey. THE LIBRARY Wilkey stated that educating customer on AI is a huge priority for them, but conceded that in the AI race, patience is not a virtue you tend to see first-hand. However, Lenovo's creation of an AI library has enabled people to have conversations much quicker, as they have leveraged AI to fast-track the traditionally protracted process of creating an NDA. 'A big focus for us in this first phase of AI is the education of our customers – and to help us with that, we have created what we call the AI Library. Many of our customers have their own IP, but they need another tool, or framework to really gain traction. When you go and speak to a customer one of the first things that your legal team will say is that we need a NDA, you can't have this conversation without one. However, this takes time, so what we did was have all our experts in AI work closely with our legal team to determine how we can have a framework around the best elements that is needed in an NDA agreement. It has all been approved now, and if anyone of our thousands of sellers globally need to have that conversation then they just need to go into the AI library, submit the details, and they'll get the approved documentation that they need to go forward with that conversation. It saves weeks, initially it was reduced from a fortnight to around 3-4 days, but now you can get the approved document within an hour. We've taken our AI library to our customers, and they can now leverage the capabilities provided by this use-case. We also have an incubation model with different ISVs, and service providers in terms of what they are creating and how we can link that into our incubation AI team,' said Wilkey. TAKE IT ON 'BOARD' Wilkey conceded that many business leaders are under pressure to come back to their board with a clear AI strategy, and likened the current AI climate to the cloud era. 'Lenovo is in 180 different markets in the world, and each one of them is at a different level when it comes to AI, some of them are more educated on the technology than others, and that's just the state of play. When we speak to our customers we always look at the industry, what industry does this customer operate in. For example, I recently was with an insurance CIO, who admitted there were cautious about adopting AI because of fears over compliance. We spoke, and we looked at where they were having the most pain, and then we looked at developing solutions that are going to address that very specific problem in the most effective and efficient way possible. The first thing that some of these business leaders say to us is 'it's kind of like the cloud era'. Boards are now asking them what is this AI thing, what is our strategy and plan. They are asking us for help. It can be hard to stay on top of AI because it is changing so quickly, but it's our job to educate them, then advise them based on the industry they operate in what the best course of action is. If we don't have that industry expertise, then that's when we leverage our channel and partner to bring that knowledge to the industry,' said Wilkey. AGENTS OF CHANGE A big feature and theme at LEAP, was the role of Agentic AI. Many analysts are predicting that the year of 2025, will be remembered as the year of Agentic AI. 'Agentic AI is taking the data, understanding it, and create process improvement around the AI play. These agentic models are learning from themselves and cutting out some of the complex processes that used to hinder coders and developers. As you pull these units together then it's already recognising what people might have had to pull together manually. There is still a lot of compute power needed to make this all happen. We're working closely with NVIDIA, and others in relation to what it all means, and we're looking at how we bring these solutions to fruition, what is the compute power required to validate, test, and go into a production load with these agentic AI models? However, it is expensive, so we're looking at how we can adopt a consumption strategy around the design of these agentic AI models. We want to make it easier for our customers to embrace Agentic AI, and there is a lot of tools out there, but how do you simplify all of that, and use these Agentic AI models to enable what the piece of the process is in order to reduce the time, and make the whole process easier for the non-developer to be able to experiment and use,' said Wilkey. STAY 'TRU' Wilkey concluded a superb exchange, by highlighted the role and impact played by Lenovo's TruScale platform. 'We help our customers get access to the environment that they need. Many of our customers are concerned about their security and their intellectual capital, how they maintain, and manage that in their environment. TruScale is designed in a way that addresses these concerns. In some cases, they want to use a public cloud, but in other cases they want to keep it on-prem, whether they are a public sector organisation, or a financial institution, or healthcare provide, it doesn't matter the data is key, and their IP is core to them. They want to have the same experience as if they are in a public cloud. In many instances customers don't have all the capital to be able to put upfront, and that's an impact on their ROI. Lenovo helps them financially to have the right compute, the design of what they need in that environment, but have it in a financial model that makes sense to them, and enable them to turn it up and turn it down, the flexibility is critical,' concluded Wilkey.
