Deriving maximum
value fromas a service
IT infrastructure
How to enjoy significant financial, operational,
and time-to-market benefits with Lenovo TruScale
Infrastructure as a service

Introduction

Right-sizing your data centercompute and storage
The constant evolution of data center, storage, and cloudcomputing technologies places IT teams in a difficult
spot. To leverage the benefits of these technologies andimprove their company’s bottom line, IT teams need help
finding the right balance between having the data centercompute and storage capacity requirements they requireat any given time or having too much. Too little capacity
can lead to longer product and service development
times, operational inefficiencies, and missed business
opportunities. Over-sized capacity can lead to expensive,
power-hungry network equipment sitting unused whenbusiness slows, depreciating in value as it consumes
costly electricity.
When it comes to the choice between too little or too
much data center capacity, most businesses view having
too much as the lesser of two evils. They know that it cantake 12 to 18 months for a new IT infrastructure request
to get approved and implemented; too slow for today’s
digital world. So, they buy, install, and maintain morecapacity than they need to accommodate periodic spikes
in demand, and then write off unused capacity duringslower business cycles as a cost of doing business. But
with some companies reporting as much as 60 per centof their network capacity going unused during slower
business cycles, there must be a better way.

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AS MUCH AS

60%
of some companies network
capacity going unused duringslower business cycles

Cloud strategies

The flexible
approach tohybrid solutions
The rise of cloud computing seemed to be the answer
to the overprovisioning problem. By outsourcing data
centers to cloud providers, businesses could avoid
purchasing new data center equipment. Need extra
capacity? Just have your cloud provider bring morevirtual machines and storage online to meet demand.
But the situation is more complicated than that whendata security requirements are considered. Manybusinesses must meet SLA or regulatory requirements
around data security, sovereignty, and privacy thatmake hosting sensitive data outside the protectionof a corporate firewall impossible.
This consideration led to enterprises adopting a hybrid
cloud strategy, where less critical data was hosted in thecloud, and more sensitive data was stored on-premises.
But this also resulted in increasing cloud subscription
costs and data latency issues as businesses were forced
to constantly shuffle data between the cloud and onpremises environments to comply with SLAs
and government regulations.

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Deriving maximum value from as a service IT infrastructure“As (our) client had complex requirements and strict security
demands, the public cloud was simply not an option. However,
we saw that there were elements of the cloud model that fit
well with this use case, particularly the ability to flex resources
up and down in line with business requirements. In our view,
Lenovo TruScale is a disruptive offering and an ideal solution
for our client’s demands.”
Ruben Vergara, CEO, Blue Ocean Technologies, a Lenovo TruScale subscription customer

Lenovo TruScale

TruScale IaaS delivers
the best of both worlds
What IT teams need is the ability to quickly scale up or down
their data center capacity to keep pace with their rapidly changing
requirements, but also avoid paying for capacity they’re not using.
And on top of that, they need to maintain data security. How dothey support all these requirements at an efficient cost?
Thankfully, data center technology vendors have developed new
business models that combine the speed and scalability of cloudcomputing with the data sovereignty and privacy strengths of anon-premises data center. In recent years, the as a service model
has been heavily embraced by global enterprises. Lenovo TruScalecombines the cloud flexibility and the on-prem security and control,
all into one smarter alternative: sustainable, cost effective and fast!
Lenovo TruScale IaaS lets customers quickly and efficiently bringnew data center compute and storage capacity online as needed,while avoiding the pitfall of overprovisioning. How does Lenovo do
this? Lenovo collaborates with customers to identify what capacity
they could need in the future, and then installs the hardware required
to deliver that capacity at the customer site. This gives the customer
the flexibility to decide what data stays protected by the corporate
firewall, and what data can be outsourced to a cloud environment.
Better still, Lenovo TruScale solutions come with advanced power
metering capabilities to monitor what data center hardware isactually being used, and only bill the customer for that hardware.
This way, customers get the best of both models without the riskof overprovisioning.

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Maximizing value

Delivering the benefitsof cost, risk and timeThose benefits alone make TruScale IaaS a compelling option
for data center management. But it has other advantages as well.
By having their data center hardware on-site and ready to deploy
additional capacity at a moment’s notice, businesses could avoid
the cost and delays associated with procuring hardware.
When it comes to staffing, most businesses keep their IT teams
as small as possible to reduce salary and administrative costs.
This usually results in a team with barely enough resources tokeep the data center up and running, let alone spend time developing
and implementing new, complex IT projects. But basic data center
support and maintenance is part of a Lenovo TruScale solution.
This allows IT teams to spend more time on value-added tasks,
and less time on day-to-day maintenance. One Lenovo TruScalecustomer estimated that with Lenovo handling more routine data
center responsibilities, the IT team had 40 per cent more time tofocus on projects that could directly benefit the business, like porting
existing on-premises datacenter applications to support the cloudor analyzing business data to find new growth opportunities orto increase operational efficiencies.

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Access to the rightskills at the right time
What if a customer wants to implement an innovative data center technology, butdoesn’t have staff with the required skills and expertise to do so? Lenovo TruScale
Infrastructure as a service helps customers take advantage of new data centertechnologies without having to compete with other businesses to find IT staff withthe requisite skills and experience. Personnel with those skills are hard to find, andtheir salaries are high. But with TruScale, customers access Lenovo’s own engineersand project managers if they need help with new technology implementation. And
as Lenovo is recognized worldwide as a leader in IT services, customers know thatno matter how challenging or technically complex their implementation will be,
Lenovo has the engineering talent to take it from initial concept to operational reality.

“We are the first line of support for our as-aservice clients, which means it’s imperativethat we can count on our technology partner.
Whenever we encounter a technical issue, weknow Lenovo will resolve it quickly – allowing
us to deliver an outstanding level of service.”
Miguel Reyes, President & Director, JUSTONE Solutions,a Lenovo TruScale subscription customer

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Maximizing value

The right workload in the rightplace with sustainability built inInfrastructure optimization reduces
energy usage for lower carbon footprint
and brings further operational timesavings and IT costs reduction.
As IT leaders pursue the digitaltransformation strategies that movetheir organizations forward, they’realso under increasing pressure tosupport and meet sustainability goals.
At Lenovo, we believe the right technology
solutions have the power to not only helporganizations meet those sustainability
goals, but also improve productivity
and agility along the way.
Through Lenovo TruScale, customers
can leverage the inherent flexibilityof as-a-Service solutions that combine
hardware, software, and services into one
convenient and predictable consumptionbased model — and strengthen yoursustainability efforts in four key areas:•Optimizing technology consumption•Improving energy efficiency•Embracing a more circular economy•Managing carbon footprint

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Optimizing your data center with
Lenovo TruScale Infrastructure asa Service can help reduce CO2 emissions
and power consumption by up to 20%1

Lenovo TruScale IaaS technology
meters each server 86,000 times
a month to accurately monitor
power consumption2

Lenovo’s “Rack and Stack” configuration
provides servers pre-installed and shippedin the rack, reducing the packing material
needed and delivering 75% faster timefrom arrival to production readiness.2

Conclusion

Lenovo TruScaledelivers benefits
on all fronts
Today’s digital marketplace is an exciting but challenging environment.
Cloud computing and 5G are making it possible for businesses toparticipate in the digital economy – anytime, anywhere. The challengebusinesses must address now is how to manage their online presence ina way that meets their data security and compute/storage requirements,
while keeping costs under control. Lenovo TruScale IaaS portfolio does
just that - providing flexible IT infrastructure that allows enterprises toinnovate without limits.

For more information about Lenovo
TruScale IaaS solutions and how they help
customers get the most from their data
center infrastructure without overprovisioning,please visit www.truscale.com
12TruScale IaaS accurately reports on power and CO2 emissions allowing managed infrastructures to be designed, implemented,
and tuned not only for performance and capacity but also for CO2 emissions. Ongoing monitoring of the system using Lenovo
XClarity Power Monitor and systems performance figures are used to optimize power consumption by the infrastructure.
CO2 emissions will be calculated based on the localized carbon footprint of the power source used.
Lenovo, Internal Source, 2023

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