During the Tech World 2020 , Lenovo’s event that was held in a virtual way, The multinational outlined its digital strategy for the business world. Strategy that leverages the company’s solutions, able to cover the entire spectrum of company needs, from the world of smart manufacturing to that of retail, passing through transport, energy, health, education and agriculture. The password is “ smarter technology for all “, technology plus intelligent for everyone.

Lenovo’s partnerships with SAP and DreamWorks

Lenovo took the opportunity of Tech World to announce the news in the partnership area. The first is the strengthening of the collaboration with SAP, which will bring the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud , relying on Lenovo TruScale Infrastructure Services and Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile servers. SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud will allow customers to run SAP software within their data center, relying on lower latencies and keeping the most sensitive data at home, keeping the same cloud usage model.

In collaboration with Dreamworks – the studio that brought animated films such as Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and Baby Boss to the big screen – Lenovo designed and installed the new supercomputer, liquid-cooled with the solution Lenovo Neptune , which made it possible to reduce energy consumption by a third. Note that the system was installed during the pandemic, which demonstrated Lenovo’s ability to effectively manage the supply chain. “ The data center is the heart of our environment “- commented Jeff Wike, Chief Technology Officer of DreamWorks Animation – “ It is responsible for supporting all of our creative and operational ambitions. We strive to use technology to optimize one of our most valuable assets, our artists. We can automate a number of operations so that our engineers can focus on those strategies that allow artists to focus on the artistic side. “

The edge in the center of Lenovo’s strategy

Lenovo introduced an important concept during Tech World, that of SIoT, which represents the fusion of hardware (IoT, in fact), software and services . These are the main building blocks of Lenovo’s entire strategy and vision for the future . Sensors and smart devices are of little use if a world of services is not created behind it, and the main example is represented by the 5G . New generation networks, faster and with less latency, but the 5G revolution does not come from (only) technological advances: they are the cost-effective services. revolve around that give added value. And to ensure that these services are efficient and distributed, it is necessary to invest in the Edge, to manage data locally where it is needed.

Lenovo offers end to end solutions for the edge, starting from the hardware (computer, IoT) to get to the infrastructure, the Lenovo Edge Computing Platform, to get to the Edge AI , to bring artificial intelligence to the peripheral part of the network. A concrete example? A robot that applies paint on products, controlled by artificial intelligence, which allows it to use the right amount of paint depending on the surrounding conditions to arrive at a practically perfect job, which improves over time. Thanks to machine learning, over time the robot learns to recognize an increasing number of small defects, improving its accuracy. Accuracy that can only be obtained by processing the information relating to the AI ​​locally, precisely on the edge.