Lenovo’s acquisition of IBM’s x86 server business: here is what matters for enterprises.

The longstanding strategic alliance between IBM and Lenovo is one of the most profitable and promising in tech’s industry. IBM definitely turns to software-as-services, while Lenovo focuses on hardware-as-services with a vision to drive profitable growth and build Lenovo into a global enterprise leader.

Connectikpeople.co, soon #Retinknow, recalls that the history of collaboration began in 2005 when Lenovo acquired IBM’s PC business, including the ThinkPad line of PCs. 

Henceforth with Motorola Mobility from Google in its assets, Lenovo with this new acquisition,  extends its capabilities in enterprise hardware and services.

At Connectikpeople.co, soon #Retinknow, we are also seduced to observe that this china-based company, strongly demonstrates the confidence they have earned based inter alia on their consistent track record as a responsible global investor and as an ambitious technology provider.

Lenovo is acquiring System x, BladeCenter and Flex System blade servers and switches, x86-based Flex integrated systems, NeXtScale and iDataPlex servers and associated software, blade networking and maintenance operations. IBM will retain its System z mainframes, Power Systems, Storage Systems, Power-based Flex servers, PureApplication and PureData appliances.

Lenovo and IBM have also established a strategic alliance where Lenovo will serve as an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) to IBM and resell selected products from IBM’s industry-leading storage and software portfolio, including IBM’s entry and midrange Storwize storage product family, Linear Tape Open (LTO) products, and elements of IBM’s system software portfolio, including Smart Cloud, General Parallel File System and Platform Computing solutions. 

IBM will continue to provide maintenance delivery on Lenovo’s behalf for an extended period of time.

The global team of the IBM x86 server business will be organized under Lenovo’s Enterprise Business Group.