The drive tomodernize
enterpriseinfrastructure.

Does your data center deliver theperformance your organizationneeds to thrive?
For many businesses, the answer is no. The demands of modern
computing keep growing, putting increasing pressure on data centers
as IT teams are called upon to deliver resource-heavy workloads suchas AI, virtualization, and edge computing. Each new technology has
its own resource demands, security, performance, scalability, andcompatibility requirements for the data center to support.
With most servers around three to five years old, many data centersaren’t equipped to carry their organizations into the future.
According to IDC research, 85% of leaders understand that theirdigital infrastructure is critical or important to achieving their goals.1
But in many cases, there’s a gap between their aspirations and thecapabilities of their infrastructure. If they want to succeed, they’ll needto modernize—and soon.
If your data center is struggling to keep up with evolving technology
demands, upgrading your servers can help you enhance performance,
strengthen security, simplify management, and boost efficiency.

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2Here’s how:Modern servers deliver consistent,competitive performance
The older they get, the more servers struggle with high-demand workloads. And asprocessing demands continue to grow, it’s only going to get more difficult for IT teams
to consistently support the high level of performance a leading business needs.
Nearly two-thirds of organizations are repatriating workloads from public clouds into
their own data centers or private clouds.2 Alongside the ever-expanding range of newworkloads—with 88% of organizations planning to use edge computing in the next year,and 80% planning to use AI3—this will put increasing pressure on their infrastructure.
The latest servers deliver higher speeds, greater capacity, and the flexibility to adapt as
your organization adopts of new technologies with intense IT demands.

Worry-free operations with the latest security
and updates
Few businesses can afford to experience frequent, unplanned outages in theirdata center.
Security breaches are the top cause of unexpected downtime for 78% of businesses4,
and without the regular updates and patches of a modern infrastructure, older servers
are highly vulnerable. And while IT teams scramble to find the cause of an outage
and get everything back up and running, you run the risk of losing data, money, andcustomer goodwill.
With 2023 seeing nearly 700 million records breached in verified cyberattacks by theend of August5, it’s no surprise that 51% of leaders are increasing their IT budgets toprioritize network security.6
Nearly half of organizations are also dedicating
more budget to hardware upgrades that target
reliability.7 It’s another common cause of disruption;
the longer older components are deployed, thegreater the risk of failure.
A refreshed infrastructure means new servers
and processors with upgraded components that
not only perform better, but last longer than older
components with consistent uptime and the latest
security measures included.

Learn more
about the four
top benefits ofupgraded servers
in our quickreference guideto infrastructure
modernization.

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Say goodbye to management headaches
Over time, infrastructure often becomes more complex. Organizations expand theircapacity, introduce different software, and add new servers—all of which makemanaging the IT environment a more complex task.
Modernizing your infrastructure is the ideal time to remove some of that complexity,
by consolidating your rack space, ensuring compatibility across your hardware, andcentralizing management.
And there are ways to take that simplicity a step further: leading providers now offer
as-a-Service models for hardware, which allow IT teams to outsource everything from
specification and provisioning to deployment and ongoing management.
The ability to “bundle and kit” different hardware components using an as-a-Service
approach allows organizations to align their technology more closely with business
requirements.8 This could explain why 40% of business leaders are interested in flexible
purchasing options for their hardware9—an approach that’s already hugely popular in
the software market.

A more efficient way to run your data center
There’s increasing pressure for organizations to factor their environmental and societal
impact into new initiatives. The overwhelming majority (83%) of leaders want theirdigital transformation to contribute to the greater good.10
Nearly half of organizations plan to invest in more energy efficient tech; data centers
are notoriously energy-hungry, which means they’re a prime candidate for serversthat are more energy efficient. Modern servers are an ideal and highly effective routeto reducing energy usage and emissions in the data center, as they’re built to use
resources more efficiently without sacrificing performance.
And for the 48% of leaders who are looking for a more sustainable way to dispose of
their retired assets11, the as-a-Service approach also links organizations into a stronger
ecosystem of asset renewal and recycling.

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Now is the moment to modernize
Many organizations have invested heavily in their infrastructure, and it’sa difficult decision to retire that technology in favor of new servers.
But putting off modernization has hidden costs, as you spend moreon maintenance, risk more disruptive downtime, and watch yourcompetitors find success with AI and other emerging technologies.
Lenovo ThinkSystem, ThinkAgile and ThinkEdge systems with AMD
EPYC™ processors deliver the four core benefits of modernization:
greater performance12, consistent security and reliability13, simpler
management, and a more efficient way to operate.14

For a more in-depth
look at infrastructure
modernization, its
benefits, and how ourcombined technologies
could transform yourdata center, read ournew guide, The high costof doing nothing: Why
it’s time to modernize
your infrastructure.

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