This short presentation highlights the IDC Technology Spotlight report on "Next-Gen Servers: Helping Enterprises Embrace the 3rd Platform of Computing." It also describes how the new and enhanced Lenovo servers can help customers in their transition to the 3rd platform through accelerated performance, increased reliability, and improved IT staff productivity.

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Are servers important
to help you move to the
3rd Platform of computing?
Highlights for the IDC Technology Spotlight report:
Next-Gen Servers: Helping Enterprises
Embrace the 3rd Platform of Computing

2. 2
The 3rd Platform is IDC's term for the
foundational technologies of cloud, mobile,
social, and big data. These technologies are
combining to transform business and the
economy. The 3rd Platform is the next
evolution of IT, surpassing the 2nd Platform of
the Internet and client-server computing and
the 1st Platform of mainframe computing.
Source: IDC, 2016

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IDC’s 3rd Platform
• Today, the 3rd Platform is already the new core
of IT market growth. Over 100% of IT
spending growth, and virtually ALL of
enterprises’ strategic new Digital
Transformation initiatives, are being built on
3rd Platform technologies and solutions
• IDC believes that by the end of 2017, two-
thirds of the CEOs of Global 2000 enterprises
will have digital transformation at the center of
their corporate strategy
• By 2017, over 50% of organizations' IT
spending will be for 3rd Platform technologies,
solutions, and services - rising to over 60% by
2020
Source: IDC FutureScape: “Worldwide IT Industry 2016 Predictions — Leading Digital
Transformation to Scale”, Document # 259850, November 2015

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2016 Lenovo Internal. All rights reserved.
Industry trends are defining
the new datacenter.
Is it just a buzzword?
Does it provide real
business benefits?
3rd Platform
based datacenter
New Model Benefits
• Optimize utilization rates
• Reduce capital spending
• Improve IT staff
productivity
Business Value &
Competitive
Differentiation
3rd platform initiatives will
constitute a growing majority
of IT investments

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Business Initiatives Driving IT Investments
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Improve customer acquisition and retention
Increase organization's agility
Introduce new products and services
Increase organization's revenue
Improve organization's business processes
Reduce organization's costs
Increase organization's productivity
(%)
Source: IDC, 2016

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“IT staff has little time for innovation”
• 80% of IT staff time = “keeping the lights on”.
• Users demand continuous and reliable access to apps and data
Time and resources
spent “keeping the
lights on”
Resource allocation
to new business
apps and services
Flat Budgets
Source: IDC, 2016

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How can IT infrastructure help balance the equation?
Performance
Reliability
IT Staff Productivity
Companies demand high-
performing IT infrastructure
to manage ever-growing
volumes of data and turn it
to real-time business
insights.
Businesses expect their
applications and supporting
infrastructure to be available 24
by 7. Moreover, they cannot
afford the increasingly high cost
of downtime.
To succeed in the next era,
customers need to simplify
IT operations: reduce
operating expenses,
optimize current
infrastructure, and ultimately
increase staff efficiency.
Source: IDC, 2016

8. 8
The right IT data center infrastructure helps IT staff
focus on business-critical initiatives
IDC Technology Spotlight report: Next-Gen Servers: Helping
Enterprises Embrace the 3rd Platform of Computing
“Keeping the lights on” New business
apps and services
“Critical to the success of this 3rd Platform transition is reliable,
predictable, and high-performing server and software infrastructure”

9. 9
“Lenovo has refocused its range of
servers, software solutions, storage and
infrastructure products and services to
meet the needs of enterprise digital
transformation and evolution to the 3rd
Platform of computing”.
IDC Technology Spotlight report: Next-Gen Servers:
Helping Enterprises Embrace the 3rd Platform of
Computing

10. 10
Portfolio investments for 3rd Platform
New & Enhanced Servers Solutions
• Lenovo Cloud Reference
Architecture for VMware Software
Defined Datacenter
• Lenovo Cloud Reference
Architecture for Red Hat
Enterprise
• System x3250 M6
• System x3650 M5
• System x3550 M5
• ThinkServer RD650
• ThinkServer RD550
• ThinkServer RD450
• ThinkServer RD350
• ThinkServer TD350
• NeXtScale nx360 M5
• Flex x240 M5
Management
• Lenovo XClarity Mobile
• Lenovo XClarity Integrators
• Lenovo XClarity Energy Manager
 Ultra-dense systems for software defined,
hyperconverged and cloud workloads.
 Small and Medium Business workloads.
 Balanced Performance and Reliability
 Mainstream rack servers for virtualization and
LOB applications
 Optimized for growing businesses. Large
storage, high availability features.
 Integrated blades for wide range workloads.
VDI, database.
 HPC and Cloud optimized.
Solutions to optimize IT resources
 IT staff efficiency with advanced systems
management
 Open approach to partnerships
 Backed with Lenovo’s global support and
services

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“Lenovo systems are well positioned to help customers achieve
their business goals while moving to the 3rd Platform”
• 44% greater processing
speed
• 12% faster memory access
• 23% faster Hadoop
performance for faster
intake of large volumes of
data and real-time business
insights.
#1 in Reliability according to ITIC
Trusted Platform Assurance
protects hardware and firmware
• Easy provisioning: XClarity
• Simplify with hyperconvergence.
HX SeriesNutanix appliances
• Reference architectures
• Energy efficiency
Accelerate
Performance
Increase
Reliability
Improve
IT Staff Productivity

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Implementing 3rd Platform technologies?
• Consider reliable, secure infrastructure, and software
based on open standards.
• Investments on IT professional services should take
into account:
• Do not play catch-up with competitors.
• Invest where IT efficiencies can be gained to allow
investment in new projects.
• Balance organizational power of IT and LOB, for long
term organization agreements.
• Focus on business process improvement.
IDC recommends:
IDC Technology Spotlight report: Next-Gen Servers: Helping
Enterprises Embrace the 3rd Platform of Computing

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“Lenovo’s portfolio of
hardware and software
offerings should be a
serious consideration of any
enterprise undergoing digital
transformation”.
IDC Technology Spotlight report: Next-Gen Servers:
Helping Enterprises Embrace the 3rd Platform of
Computing
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