Lenovo to buy and the United States IT companies IBM's PC career, the world's attention, but Lenovo inherited and carried forward the IBM cause, not only PC, Japan it-related media cloudwatch reports from the IBM server business Lenovo Data Center cause, now in which direction to transition. Lenovo Data Center is now the head of the business, but also before the Japanese it manufacturers NEC PC business Lenovo, responsible for NEC PC business and Lenovo integration of the people, Roderick Lappin, he directly said that the past Lenovo data center business, emphasizing the local soft hardware route, In the 2010 's the wrong way to go, now to make a new business strategy. Roderick Lappin's strategy, which was approved in October 2016 and implemented as a new organization from April 2017 onwards, focuses on 3:1, HyperScale Computing, such as cloud computing and huge amounts of data, with a growth rate of over 17% in the past 2020; 2, Software Defind, such as virtual platform, growth rate of more than 10% before 2020; 3, HPC, supercomputer and other fields, growth rate of more than 11% before 2020. And the results immediately surfaced, Lenovo data center of the cause of 2017 4 ~ June, the North American region than 2016 4 ~ June increased by 8%, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa total growth of 11%, the Asia-Pacific region grew 13%, can be said to have a good start. Roderick Lappin's next step is in the original server-related hardware brand Thinksystem, add to the software services related to the brand, Thinkagile, at the same time with the relationship between Lenovo and IBM, strengthen and hyper-fusion infrastructure to create a new enterprise Nutanix cooperation , drive Thinkagile brand career growth, in software and services to build Lenovo data center career status. One of the most important Roderick Lappin, is the HPC market, Lenovo in 2015 years to join the market, the world's top 500 super computers, Lenovo accounted for 23, but by 2017 has increased to 4 times times 92, in the world's top 500, can be said to be ranked runner-up, and have the potential to be champions; And as the world's 3rd largest market in Japan, he will pay attention to the market. Lenovo data Center business that inherits IBM Server domain business and technology, in the local-end server market The global market accounted for 40%, although it is not negligible markets, but because the rise of cloud applications, customers no longer build their own server, so by 2020, Lenovo in this market, the scale of business, The estimate will shrink by 4% a year. However, the huge access, brand value, customer satisfaction, and high quality engineers and records from IBM server business can be said to be indispensable to the transformation of Lenovo's data center cause, which is the cooperation between Lenovo Data center and other departments, and the development of the new era. At the same time to retain the fine tradition.
