Time for change:
The four top
benefits ofinfrastructure
modernization

With the latest advances in server and processor technology, IT leaders can explore
emerging opportunities like AI, edge computing, and virtualization—while reducing costand improving overall performance.
In this evolution, your role as an IT decision maker is crucial. By embracing infrastructure
modernization and adding the latest technologies to your IT stack, you can provide theperformance, scalability, and flexibility needed to drive positive change.

IT modernization is a key enterprise goal
By modernizing your IT you can improve your infrastructure in four key areas:••

Performance
Security and reliability••Manageability
Energy efficiency

Let’s explore how…

Questions to ask when defining your IT goals:
Where are our current servers not keeping up withperformance requirements?
What new technologies would we like to integrate?
How secure is our data?
How much time does our IT team spend “fighting fires”?
Can we advance our sustainability goals?

#1. More performance,
smaller footprint#2. A secure, reliable
modern infrastructure

Providing simple, centralized resource
management by upgrading to a modern
infrastructure that is powerful, flexible,and energy efficient, you can meet today’s
demanding workloads head on. And havingthat performance in servers that occupy asmaller footprint means you can easily reducerack space or expand your capacity.

As servers age, vulnerabilities can start
to show in your infrastructure – fromcomponents that can fail to a greater riskof security breaches.

Lenovo and AMD = Performance•••

Lenovo and AMD hold over 120
current world-record server andprocessor benchmarks.1
Lenovo servers with AMD processors
offer an improvement of up to 98%
in memory streaming bandwidth for
Lenovo V3 AMD servers using DDR5
over Lenovo first generation AMD
servers using DDR4.2
Lenovo V3 servers with AMD
processors offer up to 123%
performance improvement over theprevious generation.3

The costs associated with security
incidents grew almost 50% in
2022, totaling $10.3 billion – FBI4
With both security and reliability
concerns constantly threatening uptime,
upgrading to a well-supported modern
infrastructure is vital to helping ensure youroperations run smoothly.
We implement strict protocols andsecurity solutions at every stage of design,development, and deployment, which is why
our ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile solutions
have achieved…
•#1 in reliability for 9 years5•#1 in security for 4 years6

This means you can have confidence in yourtechnology, ensure uptime, drive growth,and reduce the financial and reputationalrisks of failing to meet security requirements.

#3. Simple
management andmaintenanceThe cost and complexity of maintenance is
one of the biggest drawbacks of an outdated
infrastructure.
Upgrading offers the perfect opportunity tosimplify your mixed-processor environment,
and we have a variety of systems and tools
in place to make your migration and ongoing
management as simple as possible including:•Lenovo TruScale: Lenovo TruScaleis an as-a-Service delivery model
designed to take the complexity out ofprovisioning, upgrading, and managing
your infrastructure with some of the mostpowerful, reliable, and secure servers andprocessors on the market.

•Automated migration: The VMware
Architecture Migration Tool allows you tomigrate virtual machines between servers
with minimal disruption.

•Lenovo XClarity Administrator: Thiscentralized resource management platform
enables you to monitor performance, push
updates, manage data storage and more.

#4. A boost foryour sustainability
initiatives
Sustainability is high on the agenda foreveryone—and a modern, more energy
efficient infrastructure can help.
Lenovo and AMD are pioneers of energy
efficient products, features and initiatives:

Ready to get started?

•Lenovo’s 5th generation Neptune
Liquid Cooling captures up to 100% of ​the heat* generated by servers.7

Let’s talk about your modernization journey•Our Titanium Power Supplies are up to94% efficient; combined with Neptune
Liquid Cooling, you can increase yourpower efficiency by up to 40%.8•Lenovo’s hardware-agnostic asset
buyback program responsibly
recycles retired servers.

*depending on specific environment

https://www.amd.com/en/processors/epyc-world-records as of October 19, 2023
Based on Lenovo internal testing comparing the memory bandwidth of Lenovo ThinkSystem V3 servers with AMD Genoa (12 channels ofDDR5 @ 4800) to Lenovo ThinkSystem servers with AMD Milan (8 channels of DDR4 @ 3200).​
3Lenovo SR675 V3 with two 2.55 GHz AMD EPYC 9684X processors achieved a SPECrate®2017_fp_base score of 1570 compared to 702 for theLenovo ThinkSystem SR665 with two 2.20 GHz AMD EPYC 7773X processors. See https://www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2023q3/cpu201720230828-38895.html and https://www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2022q3/cpu2017-20220704-32171.html for complete details. Results
are current as of Oct 18, 2023. See http://www.spec.org for additional information. SPEC®, SPEC ACCEL®, SPEC CPU®, SPEC MPI®, SPEC OMP®,SPEC VIRT_SC®, SPEC VIRT®, SPEChpc™, SPECjbb®, and SPECpower_ssj® are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation
Corporation (SPEC).​
4https://www.ic3.gov/Media/PDF/AnnualReport/2022_IC3Report.pdf
5
Among all x86 servers. https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/lp1117-itic-reliability-study
6
Among all x86 servers. https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/resources/data-center-solutions/analyst-reports/itic-global-server-hardware-securitysurvey-2022/
7
https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/lp1612-lenovo-thinksystem-sd665-v3-server
8
https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/lp1612-lenovo-thinksystem-sd665-v3-server
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