Lenovo has been talking to its channel partners about its planned partnership with NetApp as it prepares its Dell EMC counter attack.
The pair announced that they would be working together at the Lenovo Transform 2.0 event in New York. The stated aim was to bring flash storage products to market and a joint venture in China to deliver localised solutions for that market was mentioned.
Kirk Skaugan, executive vice-president and president of the datacentre group at Lenovo, said the NetApp partnership would significantly broaden and solidify the company’s growth in the datacentre business and help to improve profitability. Lenovo was operating in every market such as telcos, MRI scanners ultrasound, wind turbines and embedded Xeon edge devices.
Lenovo used Tranform to reveal its ThinkShield security , which it has worked on with Intel. MobileIron and Absolute. There was a laptop launch with the firm adding the ThinkPad X1 Extreme to the high end range aiming it at ‘advanced users and prosumers’. We never understood what promusers meant, and suspect an expert at the University of Marchitecture thought it up.
