Lenovo expands its Thinker's portfolio with GPU-rich edge server designed to accelerate business critical insights
New compact, ruggedized and quiet Lenovo Thinkers SE450 server delivers performance and scalability at the edge
Lenovo Thinkers SE450 server enables edge AI solutions for retail, manufacturing, smart city and telecom through vast partner ecosystem
Today, Lenovo (HK SE: 992) (ADR: LIVY) Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) announces the expansion of the Lenovo Thinkers portfolio with the introduction of the new Thinkers SE450 server, delivering an artificial intelligence (AI) platform directly at the edge to accelerate business insights. The Thinker's SE450 advances intelligent edge capabilities with best-in- class, AI-ready technology that provides faster insights and leading computing performance to more environments, accelerating real-time decision-making at the edge and unleashing full business potential.
To better address challenges and capture competitive advantage from today’s Smart Normal, businesses must be able to harness real-time AI insights directly at the edge-sites. With speed and agility being top-of-mind, we are developing powerful, secure, and flexible solutions that reduce response time to market and increase value to customers, said Samir Bhatia, President – APAC, Lenovo ISG. “We have designed the Thinkers SE450 server to minimize business complexities and enhance compute power in remote locations with a wide variety of workloads. Whether it is real-time patient monitoring, diagnoses, in healthcare, or efficient traffic management systems in smart cities, or predictive maintenance on the manufacturing line, we are delivering on our promise of AI at the edge”.
Accelerate Business Insights at the Edge
Edge computing is at the heart of digital transformation for many industries as they seek to optimize how to process data directly at the point of origin. Gartner estimates that 75 percent of enterprise-generated, data will be processed at the edge by 2025 and 80 percent of enterprise IoT projects will incorporate AI by 2022. Lenovo's customers a using edge-driven data sources for immediate decision-making on factory floors, retail shelves, city streets and telecommunication mobile sites. Lenovo’s complete Thinker's portfolio goes beyond the data center to deliver the ultimate edge computing power experience.
Expanding our cloud to on-premise enables faster data processing while adding resiliency, performance and enhanced user experiences. As an early testing partner, our current deployment of Lenovo’s Thinkers SE450 server is hosting a 5G network delivered on edge sites and introducing new edge
Applications to enterprises, said Khaled Al. Kuwaiti, Vice President Fixed and Mobile Core at Amati. “It gives us a compact, ruggedize platform with the necessary performance to host our telecom infrastructure and deliver applications, such as e-learning, to users.”
Enhance Performance, Scalability and Security
Designed to stretch the limitations of server locations, Lenovo’s Thinking SE450 delivers real-time insights with enhanced compute power and flexible deployment capabilities that can support multiple AI workloads while allowing customers to scale. It meets the demands of a wide variety of critical.
Workloads with a unique, quieter go-anywhere form factor, featuring a shorter depth that allows it to be easily installed in space constrained locations. The GPU-rich server is purpose-built to meet the requirements of vertically specific edge environments, with a ruggedized design that withstands a wider operating temperature, as well as high dust, shock and vibration for harsh settings. As one of the first NVIDIA-Certified Edge systems, Lenovo’s Thinker SE450 leverages NVIDIA GPUs for enterprise and industrial AI at the edge applications, providing maximum accelerated performance.
Security at the edge is crucial and Lenovo enables businesses to navigate the edge-to-cloud frontier confidently, using resilient, better secured infrastructure solutions that are designed to mitigate security risks and data threats. The Thinker's portfolio provides a variety of connectivity and security options that are easily deployed and more securely managed in today’s remote environments, including a new locking bezel to help prevent unauthorized access and robust security features to better protect data.
The Thinker's SE450 is built on the latest 3rd Gen Intel Xe on Scalable processor with Intel Deep Learning Boost technologies, featuring all-flash storage for running AI and analytics at the edge and optimized for delivering intelligence. It has been verified by Intel as an Intel® Select Solution for VRAM. This pre-validated solution takes the guesswork out of the evaluation and procurement process by meeting strictly defined hardware and software configuration requirements and rigorous system-wide performance benchmarks to speed deployment and lower risk for communications service providers.
Our collaboration with Lenovo helps enterprises across many sectors drive business value through
Network transformation and edge computing, said Jedi Pankhurst, Vice President and General Manager of the Network & Edge Platforms Division at Intel. “Resilient and flexible edge servers built with 3rd Gen Intel Xe on Scalable processors provide enhanced, enabling the delivery of innovative AI- driven services where customers will expect them.”
Edge site locations are often unmanned and hard to reach; therefore, the Thinking SE450 is automatically installed and managed with Lenovo Open Cloud Automation (LOC-A) and easily configured with Lenovo Clarity Orchestrator software. Remote access to the server, via a completely out-of-band wired or wireless access, avoids any unnecessary trip to the edge locations.
AI-Ready Solutions at the Edge
Through an agile hardware development approach with partners and customers, the Lenovo Thinking SE450 is the culmination of multiple prototypes, with live trials running real workloads in telecommunication, retail and smart city settings. The Thinking SE450 AI-ready server is designed specifically for enabling a vast ecosystem of partners to make it easier for customers to deploy these edge solutions. As enterprises build out their hybrid infrastructures from the cloud to the edge, it is the perfect extension for the on-premise cloud currently supporting Microsoft, NVIDIA, Red Hat and VMware technologies.
Providing a complete portfolio of Edge servers, AI-ready storage and solutions, Lenovo offerings are also available as-a-Service through Lenovo Truckle™, which easily extends workloads from the edge to the cloud in a consumption-based model.
Learn more here about this artificial intelligence edge solution.
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