DRIVE UP REVENUE, PROFITABILITY AND CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE WITH LENOVO HCI Find out how Lenovo’s hyperconverged solutions have helped businesses improve key business metrics and customer experience—and meet customer demand—while lowering costs and business downtime.
CONTENTWhat Your Business Can Achieve With HCI
The Business Benefits of HCI
Mutoh Fulfills Client Orders Faster with HCI
Lenovo: A World-Class HCI Portfolio
HCI Helps Heartland Jiffy Lube Up Reliability and Cut Costs
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Achieve Faster Go-to-Market HCI brings together servers, storage networks, and storage arrays to create a single, flexible datacenter unit
that can scale easily with your business. This makes it significantly easier to test and launch new applications,
shrinking time-to-market, decreasing opportunity loss, and improving innovation.
Simplify Business ExpansionHCI condenses IT infrastructure into a single bundle of software-defined hardware, making it easier—and
faster—for enterprises to deploy IT infrastructure in new branches or locations. It also allows IT to scale up easily
and match peak business demand ensuring better customer experience and fewer lost sales.
Drive Agility and InnovationHCI enables enterprises to move workloads to the cloud more easily, improving business agility, time-to-market, and innovation. Since all HCI workloads can be managed centrally, migrating workloads is also easier.
Lower TCO and Improve ProfitabilityHCI unifies server, storage and networking into a single software-defined unit simplifying the deployment and
management of IT infrastructure resulting in lower costs associated with manpower. Plus, HCI’s smaller footprint
drives savings around datacenter overhead costs including power, cooling and space.
What Your Business Can Achieve With HCI With hyperconverged infrastructure, your business can lower TCO and improve profitability, be more agile, ensure faster-time-to-market, simplify business expansion, and scale more seamlessly to stay aligned with your business.
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The Business Benefits of HCIWith hyperconverged infrastructure solutions from a trusted partner like Lenovo, your business has access to robust IT infrastructure that drives real-world business benefits.
Lenovo and Nutanix have partnered to deliver the Lenovo Converged HX Series, a best-in-class hyperconverged system, preloaded with Nutanix’s industry-leading software.
The following case studies demonstrate how Lenovo’s HCI solutions ensures businesses can fulfill customer demand faster, increase IT resilience and scalability, improve business agility and innovation, and improve manageability.
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Impacted ability to respond to customer orders as quickly as possible because extracting data from different systems across multiple physical servers was time-consuming and laborious.
Inability to virtualize information systems without adding new application servers.
Mutoh is now able to manage compute resources and virtualized environments using a single pane of glass.
A single virtualized environment ensures accelerated order processing. Compute and storage resources can now be scaled up easily ensuring customer demands are met quickly. Plus, it took just one week to migrate 50 virtualized servers to the new environment.
Mutoh Fulfills Client Orders Faster with HCIMutoh is a leading medical equipment trading company headquartered in Kai, Japan. The largest wholesale medical equipment supplier in the country, Mutoh provides specialist devices to hospitals, clinics, and health centers across Japan.
The SolutionMutoh implemented four Lenovo Converged HX5510 appliances powered by the Intel® Xeon® E5 family of processors and integrated with Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform software, creating a single software-defined environment.
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“With the Lenovo solution, we can scale compute and storage resources very easily. This means that we can start
small and ramp up resources as and when needed to ensure that we always provide speedy service to our customers,
even during periods of peak demand.”Yasuhiko Taga, Manager Administrative Section, Information Systems Division, Mutoh
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A disparate server environment lowered IT resilience, leading to regular outages to finance systems, reporting services, and other key business applications.
Lenovo’s HCI solution creates a single simplified and streamlined software-defined environment. The reliability of Lenovo hardware allows Heartland’s IT team to “sleep soundly knowing they won’t just crash in the middle of the night.” Plus, implementation only took a single weekend, ensuring no disruption to business services.
HCI Helps Heartland Jiffy Lube Increases Reliability and Cut CostsHeartland Jiffy Lube is the largest franchisee of quick lube retail service stores in the US. It operates in more than 540 Jiffy Lube locations from coast to coast and serves almost 5 million guests each year, with nearly 5,000 professionals. The Solution
Heartland Jiffy Lube implemented three 2U single-node Lenovo Converged HX5500 Appliances integrated with Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform software and Nutanix AHV, and Intel® Solid State Drives, creating a single simplified and streamlined software-defined environment.
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Limited disaster recovery meant it could take hours to restore operations. Plus backing up files to disk raised costs.
Multiple generations and models of servers made it difficult to manage infrastructure effectively. Heartland’s IT team spent too much time firefighting, not on strategic tasks.
No way of scaling up old infrastructure to meet increased demand.
The Lenovo solution seamlessly supports hybrid cloud services by integrating Heartland’s private cloud with AWS. This ensures Heartland can backup data offsite easily and cost-effectively—and can recover from disaster within minutes.
Lenovo’s HCI solution simplifies infrastructure management, freeing up IT staff for value-add tasks. Plus, HCI’s smaller footprint will reduce DC operating costs by at least 50 percent.
The flexibility and scalability of the Lenovo solution gives Heartland a lot of room for growth.
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50%The amount Heartland Jiffy Lube expects to reduce data center operating costs by, thanks to Lenovo’s HCI solution.
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“The Lenovo HX Series solution meets all of our architecture principles in terms of availability, reliability, serviceability
and scalability--more so than any other platform we’ve ever used before.”
Chidi Alams, Head of IT, Heartland Jiffy Lube
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One Throat to ChokeLenovo Converged HX Series brings together the Lenovo’s best-of-breed hardware with Nutanix’s industry-leading software to create appliances, which are then managed, turnkey, by Lenovo. This creates a single point of support for enterprise users, streamlining adoption and trouble-shooting, thus ensuring a seamless experience.
Accelerated Business OutcomesLenovo’s appliance model ensures enterprise users are provided with the best experience available in the market, speeding up digital transformation, breaking down IT silos, shrinking datacenter complexity and cost, while
elevating IT to drive the business.
Deep Nutanix IntegrationLenovo is among the few hardware providers with a laser-sharp Nutanix focus. It is intensely aligned with Nutanix, with dedicated engineering resources across both companies working towards the tightest-possible integration possible. Such integration is hard to with other software-only
technology providers.
Lenovo-Nutanix Partnership: A Winning Combination Lenovo and Nutanix’s deep partnership offers enterprises a best-in-class hyperconverged system built on Lenovo’s industry-leading enterprise systems, and powered by Nutanix software.
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HX 1000 SeriesThe 1U 1-node Lenovo HX 1000 Series appliance is engineered for light to medium workloads (business applications and VDI) and optimized for remote office/branch office
environments.
HX5000 Series The 2U 1-node Lenovo HX5000 Series appliances are engineered for storage-heavy workloads (big data and enterprise applications) and offer a
high-capacity model.
HX7000 Series The 2U 1-node Lenovo HX7000 Series appliance is engineered for high-performance workloads (enterprise applications and databases) and
optimized for I/O intensive operations.
HX 2000 SeriesLenovo HX 2000 Series appliances are available in 1U 1-node, and 2U 4-node form factors and are engineered with
small and medium businesses in mind.
HX 3000 SeriesLenovo HX 3000 Series appliances are available in 1U 1-node, 2U 1-node, and 2U 4-node form factors. All HX 3000 Series models are engineered for compute-heavy workloads (business applications and VDI) and offer rack-dense, all-flash (-F) and GPU (-G) models.
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