Confidently
accelerate
your digitaltransformations
with smart
infrastructure
solutionsLenovo and AMD advantage - global
technology partnership, engineering
prowess, and proven innovation.

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Lenovo & AMD

Business value

Optimized solutions

Proven innovation• Helping data-centeredcustomers solve
real-world problems• Delivering outstanding
business value withsmart infrastructure• Accelerating
workloads with
optimized
infrastructure• Record-making
joint engineering
prowess and technicalexcellence• Accelerating ourcustomers' IT
transformation• Business economics
driven by reliability,
performance and price• Workload optimized
infrastructure
solutions• Customer case study Hetzner Online GmbH

• Customer case study Supership• Customer case study Blue Sky Systems• Customer case study HUF HAUS

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Lenovo & AMD –Better together
Lenovo and AMD help data-centered customers solve real-world problems.
Together we dramatically help accelerate our customers' IT transformation
journeys while improving their competitiveness to solve humanity’s
greatest challenges.
Using the strength of our global technology partnership, engineering
prowess and proven innovation, Lenovo and AMD:Enhance businessvalue for ourcustomers

Provide optimized
solutions from edge
to cloud

Offer energy-efﬁcient
infrastructure
solutions03

Business
value
Delivering outstanding businessvalue with smart infrastructure
Get outstanding business value with improved performance,
excellent economics, fast deployment, efﬁcient administrator
productivity and cloud-like ﬁnancial choice.

Why Lenovo & AMD:We provide smart infrastructure solutions that are highly
performant, agile, ﬂexible and available as-a-Service to help giveyou better value and a competitive advantage.

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ThinkAgile integrated systems
with AMD EPYC™ processors deliver
Exceptional
performance

Fast
deployments

Enhanced
productivity

Bettereconomics

Agileinfrastructure

Run morecompute-intensive
applications andworkloads forcompetitive
advantageGet up and running
quicker with fast
deployments,
including a software
license, deployment
services and a single
support point

Improve administrator
productivity by
reducing complexity,
speeding response,and enhancing theavailability of services
with Lenovo XClarity,
an integrated andcentralized resource
management solution

Realize better
economics bydeploying criticalworkloads with peak
efﬁciency, requiring
up to 50% fewer
servers* and run
data/analytic workloads
at full enterprise
efﬁciency

Experience cloud-likeﬁnancial agility withthe advantage of an
on-premises
infrastructure*Advanced Micro Devices: 5 REASONS WHY AMD EPYC™ CPUs MATTER FOR HYPERCONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE (HCI) 2021. LINK To support 1000 virtual desktop sessions,approximately 10 servers are required using two Intel® Xeon® Gold 5220 processors (36C) and only approximately five servers powered with two AMD EPYC 7F72 processors (48C)05

Lenovo smart infrastructure
solutions with AMDOutcomes
Outstanding on-premises

IT capacity

World’s highest performing

x86

2.7X

Up toadditional VM capacity2

server processor1

100+performanceworld records3

Best uptime among

x86

all
platforms4

50%

Up tofewer servers forsimilar tasks5

1

https://www.amd.com/en/processors/epyc-server-cpu-family

2

4 Ways to Help Maximize Your HCI Investment. LINK to the infographic 2020.

3

As of November 1, 2021. Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers Continue to Lead the Industry in Performance and Customer Value. LINK

4Information Technology Intelligence Consulting (ITIC). ITIC 2020 Global Server Hardware, Server OS Reliability Report. February/March 2020. LINK

5Advanced Micro Devices: 5 REASONS WHY AMD EPYC™ CPUs MATTER FOR HYPERCONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE (HCI) 2021. LINK To support 1000 virtual desktop sessions,approximately 10 servers are required using two Intel® Xeon® Gold 5220 processors (36C) and only approximately ﬁve servers powered with two AMD EPYC 7F72 processors (48C)06

Customer case study

Supership: Energy-efficient solutions
that deliver high performance

Lenovo ThinkSystem SR635,
powered by AMD EPYCTM processorsChallenges

Outcomes» Advertising technology
expansion»» Consolidate servers, reduce
operational costs and workloadin the data center»» Address number of work
requests in a dynamic businessenvironment

3x increase in server

consolidation rate

30% increase in virtual

CPU availability»

2x increase in cores andthreads per CPU computing"Lenovo's ThinkSystem SR635
servers powered by AMD met
all our requirements andoffered excellent priceperformance."
Takayuki Komaki
Ad Platform Business Area,Supership

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Optimizedsolutions
Conﬁdently accelerate your Hyperconverged, Virtualization, HPC,and Big Data workloads, and speed time to insights with Lenovo
and AMD solutions.

Why Lenovo & AMD:
Optimized solutions offer the right infrastructure for your workload
and help identify, design, install and support hybrid cloud, HPC,
database, analytics, and AI workloads.

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Acceleratingworkloads
with optimizedinfrastructureWith Lenovo and AMD you
can conﬁdently accelerate yourHyperconverged, Virtualization,HPC, and Big Data workloads
and speed time to insights.
For example, our HCI andVirtualization Hybrid-Cloud
solutions can help you consolidate
your IT infrastructure and makeit easier to manage.
Lenovo and AMD Big Data andAnalytics solutions can helptransform data into insights
quickly using ThinkAgile solutions
engineered for high-performance
workloads, like compute-intensive in-memory databases
and I/O intensive operation.
Our performance-intensivesolutions can help use data
to dramatically accelerate
HPC workloads, improve
competitiveness, and solve
humanity's greatest challenges.
For Big Data workloads, includingbatch and real-time analytics,
the Lenovo Big Data Validated
Design for Cloudera Enterprise onThinkSystem SR655 and SR635
with AMD EPYC™ processor-based servers provide excellent
price performance.

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Workload optimized
infrastructure solutions
Lenovo and AMD provide infrastructure
solutions and services that are scalable,
open, and offer robust security features,to customers of all sizes, from growing
midsize businesses to large enterprises,
academia, research institutions,and government.
Lenovo ensures you can conﬁdently
navigate the Edge to Cloud with resilient,secure infrastructure solutions to help
mitigate security risks, data threats,and harsh environments.
Our infrastructure solutions are poweredby AMD EPYC™ processors andoptimized using our combinedengineering and technical expertise,100+

delivering
performanceworld records. They can provide a
performance uplift across a variety
of technical computing workloads.
Delivering record-breaking
performance, Lenovo ThinkSystem
servers powered by AMD EPYC™
processors offer the power to gain
rapid new data insights and acceleratebusiness transactions.
For organizations looking for secure
remote access, the Lenovo ThinkAgile
VX Series featuring AMD EPYC™
processors with VMware Horizon
software delivers a turnkey
infrastructure solution for VDI.

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Blue Sky Systems: Enabling a leading ITsolutions provider to deliver high-quality
client services 24/7
Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers with AMD EPYC™ processors
Challenges» Continue to deploy solutions thatwill run within the product lifecycle
without replacement» Drive innovation and offer clientsenhanced service, reliability,
cost-savings» Need for a quality technology
vendor to deliver high level ofservice

Outcomes» Reliable hardware with low failure
rates» Tailored solution for each client
based on their unique requirements» Excellent price/performance/ powerusage ratio with AMD EPYCTM
processors» Responsive support services»

2 hours to receive quotes“We’re continuously expanding
and upgrading our cloud
platform to accommodate
growing client demand. Weknow we can rely on Lenovo
to deliver the hardware weneed, when we need it.”Jonathan Bastin
CEO & CTO,
Blue Sky Systems

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Lenovo and AMD
collaborate withindustry-leading
partners
Lenovo ThinkSystem HPC solutions
use AMD EPYC™ processors that feature
massive CPU core density and memory
footprint to help accelerate higher
performance workloads and improve
efﬁciency and total cost of ownership.
Lenovo and AMD collaborate extensively
in Artiﬁcial Intelligence. We partner
through Lenovo AI Innovation Centers,
where we work to help ensure the successof our mutual customers with their AI

initiatives. Here, customers get accessto Lenovo and AMD AI experts toconsult on projects, including the proper
infrastructure to run a proof of concept
before deployment.
And we collaborate with the Lenovo
AI Innovators program, where we havemultiple AI software companies whose
codes have been optimized to support
Lenovo servers with AMD EPYC™
processors and AMD XilinxTM Accelerators.

12Advantages of Lenovo andAMD optimized infrastructure
configurations
HCI & Virtualization Analytics andSolutions
Database solutions

High-Performance
Computing solutions

Lenovo Big Data
Validated Design• Consolidate IT
Infrastructure• Quickly transform data
into insights• Dramatically accelerate
workloads• Excellent
price-performance• Easy to manage• Engineered for highperformance workloads• Improve competitiveness• Ideal for Big Data
workloads, batch andreal-time analytics

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Proveninnovation
Run smart, fast, and energy-efﬁcient applications
using Lenovo’s innovative end-to-end infrastructure portfolio.

Why Lenovo & AMD:AMD and Lenovo work together with the goal to provide open,
reliable, powerful and energy-efﬁcient infrastructure solutions
using the world’s highest-performing x86 server processors.1

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Lenovo and AMD joint
engineering innovation
Lenovo refreshes the entire ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile server portfolio,
leveraging AMD EPYC™ processors, delivering a performance boost torun more compute-intensive applications and workloads.

Performance

Security

Reliability

Energy efficiency• Fast time-to-insights• Enhanced ThinkShieldsecurity capabilities• Extremely reliablehardware• Highly energy-efﬁcientsolutions• Help defend internaland external threats• 100+ World
Benchmarking Records,• Advance sustainability
goals• Exceptional application
performance• Avoid downtime

2X more than Lenovo's• Help reduce energy costs

nearest competitor215

Lenovo ThinkShield with AMD Infinity Guard
Lenovo ThinkShield security capabilities have beenenhanced with AMD Inﬁnity Guard* on ThinkSystem, andThinkAgile Servers using AMD EPYC™ processors.
Designed with security in mind to be highly resistant totoday’s sophisticated attacks, AMD Inﬁnity Guard delivers aleading set of modern security features to help protect
sensitive data, avoid downtime, and reduce resource drain.
It helps defend against internal and external threats
attacking data and decreases potential attack surfaces assoftware is booted, executed, and processes critical data.

*AMD Inﬁnity Guard features vary by EPYC™ Processor generations. Inﬁnity Guard security features must be enabled
by server OEMs and/or Cloud Service Providers to operate. Check with your OEM or provider to conﬁrm support ofthese features. Learn more about Inﬁnity Guard at https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/inﬁnity-guard.

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Lenovo ThinkSystem UEFI for firmware
Lenovo ThinkSystem Uniﬁed Extensible Firmware
Interface (UEFI) provides an interface to the serverﬁrmware that controls boot and runtime services.
This ﬁrmware interface deﬁnes a software connection
between the operating system and hardware platform
ﬁrmware, offering an alternative to the Legacy BIOS
ﬁrmware interface used for years. The UEFI is used in
Lenovo ThinkSystem servers with AMD processors
and contains operating modes that pre-deﬁnetuning parameters for maximum performance orenergy efﬁciency.

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Joint engineering
prowess andtechnical excellence
100+ performance benchmarks and world
records , including 56 world records on High-Performance

Backed by Lenovo's
3Computing workloads, Lenovo’s ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile
servers with AMD EPYC™ processors empower customers tomodernize IT from Edge to Cloud, helping improve security anddeliver better business outcomes.

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Customer case study

Hetzner Online GmbH: Building a high-performance,energy efficient cloud infrastructure that offers customers
excellent value for money
Single-socket Lenovo ThinkSystem SR635 servers and dual-socket
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR645 servers powered by AMD EPYCTM processors
Challenges» Deliver the best possible
price-performance ratio» Access latest technology tooffer customers practical andinnovative products

Outcomes» Lenovo ThinkSystem SR645
Increased performance by up to

100% at the same energy costs» Lenovo ThinkSystem SR635 offered
the same performance as other CPU
vendors while reducing energy
costs by35-50%“Our partnership with Lenovo
and AMD enables us to createcustomizable servers that meet
our customers’ requirements: highperformance, energy-efﬁcient cloudservices at affordable prices.”Markus Schade
Head of Cloud Services,Hetzner Online GmbH» Reduced Hetzner Online’s TCO
by up to30%

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Customer case study

HUF HAUS: Building a high-performance,
future-ready IT foundation forinternational growth
Lenovo ThinkSystem servers, powered by AMD EPYCTM
processors and all-flash storage
Challenges

Outcomes» Modernize data center to meet
new business requirement»» Improve operational efﬁciency
across all departments

3x higher compute performancewith lower energy consumption
and same physical footprint»

10x higher storage

performance boosts productivity
for CAD workplaces» Boost employee performanceand productivity in ofﬁce andremote workplaces»

90% faster installation and“Working with Lenovo we havemodernized and streamlined ourIT, from the data center to ourofﬁces and show homes. The
Lenovo team inspired us to lookfor new, innovative solutions andwe look forward to working withthem for many years to come.”
Thomas Ehmann
Head of IT,
HUF HAUS

patching of clients for employees
thanks to Lenovo Vantage

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IT infrastructure has undergone rapid and profound changes over the past 20years. It is now poised to help transform nearly every industry. At this stage,
the greatest impediment is the need for better architectures that show
evidence of signiﬁcant beneﬁts, or validation that these solutions are smarter
than those within the organization.
Focused on a bold vision to deliver smarter technology for all, Lenovo isdeveloping world-changing technologies that create a more inclusive,
trustworthy, and sustainable digital society. By partnering with AMD,Lenovo is designing, engineering, and building a complete portfolioof smart infrastructure.
Together, Lenovo and AMD help customers adopt smart infrastructure
solutions for a broader range of business activities and accelerate theirdigital transformation. By adopting these modern solutions, organizations of
all sizes typically have better business outcomes as they conﬁdently navigate
the edge to cloud using resilient, reliable, optimized infrastructure solutions.

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21References
Business value
1

https://www.amd.com/en/processors/epyc-server-cpu-family

2

4 Ways to Help Maximize Your HCI Investment. LINK to the infographic 2020.

3

As of November 1, 2021. Lenovo ThinkSystem Servers Continue to Lead the Industry in Performance and Customer Value. LINK

4Information Technology Intelligence Consulting (ITIC). ITIC 2020 Global Server Hardware, Server OS Reliability Report. February/March 2020. LINK

5Advanced Micro Devices: 5 REASONS WHY AMD EPYC™ CPUs MATTER FOR HYPERCONVERGED INFRASTRUCTURE (HCI) 2021. LINK To support
1000 virtual desktop sessions, approximately 10 servers are required using two Intel® Xeon® Gold 5220 processors (36C) and only approximatelyﬁve servers powered with two AMD EPYC 7F72 processors (48C)• ITIC’s 2021 Global Server Hardware, Server OS Reliability independent Web-based survey LINK | Alternative source posted on AMD.com LINK

Optimized solutions• Lenovo internal summary document. ThinkSystem Performance and Benchmarks. The summary document references all benchmark attributions.
Nathan Pham, Principal Engineer. As of Jun 1, 2022.
• AMD EPYCTM Energy Efﬁciency. LINK to the website on AMD.com. July 2022.
• Lenovo Delivers Edge-to-Cloud Solutions with AMD EPYC™ 7003 Processors, Setting a New Standard for Modern IT Architectures. LINK to thepress release, posted on Lenovo StoryHub. March 16, 2021.

Proven innovation1

https://www.amd.com/en/processors/epyc-server-cpu-family

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AMD EPYC™ Processor World Records. LINK to landing page on AMD.com as of June 23, 2022.

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