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Lenovo recycles PCs to save polar bears

Posted on February 29, 2024 by - News

Lenovo is trying to flog old PCs to customers who want to save a few quid and the environment.

Using Lenovo Certified Refurbished, punters can get a second-hand PC that still works and doesn’t pollute the planet too much.

The company’s TruScale Device as a Service (DaaS) customers will also have more choices to mix and match their tech according to their needs and budget. Only Lenovo and its partners will offer the Lenovo stamp of approval.

Lenovo Global Sustainability Services head Claudia Contreras said going green is a big deal for businesses of all shapes and sizes.

Lenovo to launch its own OS and take on Windows 11

Posted on February 19, 2024 by - News

Maker of ThinkPads Lenovo is set to unleash a bombshell on Microsoft by launching its own artificial intelligence (AI) operating system (OS) later this year.

The tech giant’s top boss, Liu Jun, said the new OS would be “built around multi-terminal products, focusing on AI PCs and personal agents”.

Lenovo announced its latest range of AI PCs, which will hit the shelves in the first half of this year. The company said it will show off its cutting-edge AI devices at MWC, the largest event for the mobile industry, in February.

Lenovo and Blanco pair in data partership

Posted on February 8, 2024 by - News

Computer maker Lenovo has joined forces with data experts Blancco Technology Group to offer a new security service for businesses.

The service, part of Lenovo’s ThinkShield security package, lets firms permanently remove unwanted data from their networks, devices, and old IT gear.

Lenovo ThinkShield Data Erasure by Blancco helps firms cope with the massive amount of data that puts them at risk of cyberattacks, lawsuits, and hefty costs. It also reduces the hassle of keeping track, wiping, and reporting on all IT assets and storage devices.

Lenovo Channel EMEA Vice President makes his 2024 predictions

Posted on December 18, 2023 by - News

Lenovo Channel EMEA Vice President Ralf Jordan has been looking ahead to 2024 and sees the cloud changing the face of corporate reselling.

Jordan said that hybrid and multi-cloud are the twin engines that are driving the modernisation of IT across every sector, including a disruption of the channel landscape.

“In 2023, the work of a traditional corporate reseller that buys, enhances and sells products still exists but alongside new, evolving ways to work. Cloud service providers are increasingly taking over some of the capacity, as business requirements that historically were done in a data centre are moving to the cloud,” he said.

Jordan said that customers enjoy the benefits of cloud infrastructure but realise that adopting a one-size-fits-all approach carries risks, including the possibility that more agile competitors might leave them behind.

“There is no doubt that the multi-cloud trend will continue, moving from the large enterprise market where it began into the small and medium business space,” he said.

Lenovo steps up sustainability plans

Posted on October 2, 2023 by - News

Lenovo is going flat out to improve its sustainability position and help partners and customers meet their goals.

Lenovo’s executive director of global sustainability services, Claudia Contreras (pictured) said that Lenovo is a very large company with a big got a big footprint.

“There’s the corporate responsibility that we have to make good on those commitments of getting to a business that’s much more sustainable. We’re signed up for science-based target agreements of net zero by 2050, and there’s all sorts of goals that we have for 2030 too.

Lenovo’s numbers slump for the third time

Posted on May 26, 2023 by - News

Lenovo’s revenues made their third consecutive quarterly fall to $62 billion — down 14 per cent from $71 billion in 2022.

Net income came in at $1.6 billion was down from $2 billion– a 21 per cent drop.

The Chinese tech giant said its intelligent devices group (IDG) business saw a 21 per cent revenue setback due to a bad case of “sector inventory digestion” demand slowdown and exchange rate fluctuations.

IDG revenue dropped from $62 billion to $49 billion in 2023.

Sawyer quits Lenovo

Posted on March 22, 2023 by - News

Neil Sawyer has left Lenovo after 14 months as UK managing director & general manager.

Sawyer joined Lenovo in December 2021 after becoming a name running HP’s UK channel for six years.

Sawyer confirmed that he had left on good terms with Lenovo and was grateful to his team in UK&I for their efforts and achievements.  He just needed a break and to spend more time with his family.

He will be replaced by Preben Fjeld, former UK and Ireland GM and current EMEA chief operating officer.

 

Arrow scores global agreement with Lenovo

Posted on January 26, 2023 by - News

Arrow Electronics has landed a global agreement with Lenovo to deliver its TruScale Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).

For those not in the know, TruScale IaaS operates on a consumption-based subscription model that allows companies to use and pay for datacentre solutions – on-premise or at a customer-preferred location – without having to purchase the equipment.

The idea is to deliver the service using Arrow’s cloud management platform, ArrowSphere, to provide customers with a flexible cloud coupled with the security and control of an on-premises solution.

IGEL gives up on thin clients

Posted on November 18, 2022 by - News

Thin client player IGEL has told its partners and customers that it is giving up making thin client hardware in March next year and will move to software offerings and hardware from its partners.

The company said that its chums Lenovo, HP and LG will give partners access to nine different thin client offerings and the firm has also developed partnerships with software players, including Microsoft, Citrix and VMware too.

Simon Townsend, IGEL’s field chief technology officer for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), said it had kept partners in the loop as it had been winding down its hardware operation so the development would not come as a surprise to its channel.

Lenovo releases new server and storage products

Posted on September 26, 2022 by - News

Lenovo has unveiled its new AMD, Intel, and ARM-based systems server and storage portfolio.

Dubbed Infrastructure Solutions V3 portfolio the range encompasses the next generation of ThinkSystem, ThinkAgile, and ThinkEdge servers and storage systems.

Lenovo its products will give businesses “greater agility, resiliency, and performance”.

Lenovo executive vice president Kirk Skaugen said that Lenovo has pioneered infrastructure “solutions” that have transformed entire industries for more than 30 years.

Swales defects to Lenovo

Posted on September 6, 2022 by - Moving People

VMware channel leader Bill Swales has defected to Lenovo.

Swales joined VMware in 2018 as VP of global commercial sales before moving to the role of VP and channel chief of its Americas partner organisation.

According to a LinkedIn post he is leaving in mid-October. Swales did not say what his role would be but since his farewell post said “our paths will absolutely cross again”, he probably will be talking to partners.

PC shipments fall by 15 percent

Posted on July 15, 2022 by - News

Beancounters at Canalys have added up some numbers and found that global PC shipments fell by 15 percent in the second quarter mostly because of Chinese production issues.

The decrease took the market back to its lowest level since the pandemic began to take hold in the first quarter of 2020.

Laptops suffered an 18.6 percent drop, with consumers showing more caution with inflation and the cost of living causing some falls in demand. Desktops fared better, with a 0.6 per ent increase, driven by commercial spending on hardware.

Econocom is a Lenovo Platinum Plus member

Posted on July 11, 2022 by - News

Econocom Group has become a Lenovo Platinum Plus International Channel partner.

Only six organisations have Platinum status by Lenovo and while the pair have worked closely in France, they are expanding joint operations in the UK, Spain, Italy and Germany.

The deal means that Econocom will now sell Lenovo products and services using the Chinese outfit’s  360 framework. Econocom said it will benefit from, “the incremental business opportunities Lenovo’s end-to-end portfolio provides.”

Lenovo executive director of EMEA channel strategy and programmes Neil Berville said: “Lenovo recently announced that it has reached $70 billion in revenue for the first time – largely driven through indirect partnerships. We rely on partners who have scale, an in-depth understanding of the market and the ambition to rapidly grow their businesses with Lenovo, and Econocom is a clear example.

Monitor market continues to fall

Posted on March 30, 2022 by - News

The global PC monitor market continued to decline in the fourth quarter of 2021 with unit shipments shrinking 5.2 per ent compared to the same quarter in 2020.

According to IDC beancounters, the market still exceeded expectations and ended 2021 with a five percent year on year growth rate. With 143.6 million units shipped globally, 2021 also stood as the best performing year since 2012, when the volume was 150.3 million.

The research firm’s data also showed that a weaker H2 2021 brought down the strong momentum of the first half, which had an impressive year on year growth rate of 19.4 percent.

IDC added that challenges seen in Q3 persisted in the holiday quarter. Although mature regions slowed, volume was supported by emerging markets catching up on backlogs while global commercial volume helped to offset a softer consumer base.

Lenovo hits $20 billion revenue

Posted on February 24, 2022 by - News

Lenovo has made $20 billion in revenue for the first time ever in a single quarter.

Revenue rose 17 percent for the third quarter compared with the same period last year to $20.1 billion, while net income surged by 62 percent to reach $640 million.

It was the sixth consecutive quarter with net income growing at a rate of over 50 percent.

Lenovo chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang said: “Lenovo continued to embrace the opportunities driven by accelerated digital and intelligent transformation, and our new IT architecture prepared us well with client-edge-cloud-network-intelligence capabilities. With another record quarter, we delivered the sixth quarter of more than 50 per cent net income year-on-year growth, and the first $20 billion revenue quarter in our history.”

He said the company was on track to double both our net margin and R&D investment in three years from 2021.