Enterprise Storage FAQs

Lenovo provides a comprehensive range of enterprise storage solutions designed to meet diverse business needs:

• ThinkSystem DG Series: All-flash QLC arrays offering unified storage with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO), ideal for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), AI/ML, analytics, and edge environments.
• ThinkSystem DM Series: Unified flash/hybrid storage with hybrid cloud readiness, supporting both SAN and NAS protocols, suitable for databases, containers, private/hybrid cloud, and virtualization.
• ThinkSystem DE Series: All-flash and hybrid SAN arrays providing high input/output operations per second (IOPS) and low latency, perfect for video surveillance, backup, scientific computing, and departmental IT.
• ThinkSystem DB Switch: 24-port 64G Ready low-latency Fibre Channel switch, offering an affordable entry point to handle large volumes of data with minimal overhead. Lenovo Data Storage Central

Lenovo’s enterprise storage solutions are engineered to accelerate AI workloads by providing high-performance, scalable, and secure storage infrastructures. The ThinkSystem DG Series, for instance, features Quad-Level Cell (QLC) architecture, delivering up to 6x faster performance and up to 50% less cost compared to traditional hard disk drive (HDD) arrays, making it suitable for read-intensive enterprise AI workloads and large dataset processing. Lenovo StoryHub

ThinkSystem Intelligent Monitoring (TIM) is Lenovo’s AI-driven storage management solution that provides centralized, real-time visibility across your storage environment. TIM delivers proactive insights, detects and diagnoses issues before they impact operations, and recommends updates and security enhancements, simplifying storage management and improving operational efficiency. Lenovo Data Storage Central

Lenovo Enterprise AI Starter Kits are pre-validated solutions that combine Lenovo ThinkSystem servers, enterprise storage, NVIDIA GPUs, and networking components, engineered together to support common AI use cases such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), inferencing, and model fine-tuning. These kits provide a faster and simpler path to AI deployment, whether for pilot projects or scaling production AI workloads. Lenovo Data Storage Central

Lenovo offers a comprehensive data health check tool to help businesses evaluate their existing storage infrastructure. This assessment provides insights into current performance, identifies potential gaps, and offers recommendations for modernisation strategies tailored to specific business needs. Lenovo Data Storage Central