Today Lenovo and Nutanix announced a partnership centered on making Lenovo hyperconverged appliances powered by Nutanix software. Both companies are committed to reducing complexity and lower costs by delivering hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to enterprises. This HCI will enable IT to focus on their business’s applications and services while offering a compelling alternative to public cloud services.
Today Lenovo and Nutanix announced a partnership centered on making Lenovo hyperconverged appliances powered by Nutanix software. Both companies are committed to reducing complexity and lower costs by delivering hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to enterprises. This HCI will enable IT to focus on their business’s applications and services while offering a compelling alternative to public cloud services.
Hyperconverged infrastructure combines compute, storage, and networking into a easier to manage and less complex appliance. This new partnership will use Lenovo appliances enabling them to continue their innovation in legacy hardware. The partnership will use Nutanix’ software allowing them to take advantage of Lenovo’s global market. The new solutions will features several of the latest Intel technologies and will be able to run most workloads including enterprise applications, databases, virtualized desktops, and big data analytics, with improved efficiency and scalability.
Both companies are planning on making “substantial investments” in engineering and development, as well as aggressive go-to-market initiatives. And Lenovo states it will be making sizable investments in its dedicated skilled global sales team.
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Lenovo and Nutanix are expected to jointly announce new solutions as early as next month at Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure & Operations Management Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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