Lenovo expands Hybrid AI Advantage with full-stack solutions, platforms, and services to accelerate enterprise AI adoption and ROI.
Lenovo has significantly expanded its Hybrid AI Advantage portfolio, introducing a comprehensive suite of advisory and implementation services, industry-specific solutions, and hybrid AI platforms. This expansion aims to provide enterprises with the necessary infrastructure and full-stack capabilities to transform their IT operations and unlock the full potential of artificial intelligence.
Lenovo’s latest offerings provide a solid framework for organizations to create, scale, and manage AI factories. These solutions utilize high-performance servers equipped with accelerated computing and advanced networking, seamlessly integrating with a broad ecosystem of technology partners. The newly validated platforms and services aim to expedite the deployment of specialized AI across various environments, enabling businesses to achieve a faster time-to-value through enhanced productivity, agility, and trust.
The ROI Challenge in Enterprise AI
According to Lenovo’s Global CIO Playbook, two-thirds of organizations have yet to see a return on investment from their AI initiatives, often hindered by challenges in training, adoption, and technical capabilities. With AI budgets projected to triple to nearly 20% of IT spending by 2025, there is a clear imperative for enterprises to modernize their infrastructure to ensure efficiency, performance, and scalability. Lenovo’s approach is to bridge this gap with integrated, scalable solutions that drive measurable business outcomes.
Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, President of Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions Group, emphasizes that Lenovo’s proven solutions and strategic partnerships are designed to boost productivity, enhance user satisfaction, and accelerate data-driven decision-making, resulting in tangible business value.
Comprehensive Hybrid AI Solutions
Lenovo’s Hybrid AI Advantage is at the forefront of enterprise AI transformation, providing infrastructure, solutions, and services that support any workload, anywhere. The platform combines AI infrastructure, data, models, and services with established use cases, enabling organizations to integrate AI throughout their workforce, operations, and data landscape. This strategic, service-oriented approach is already yielding higher ROI for Lenovo clients, with some reporting up to a 31% increase in employee productivity and efficiency.
Even with the rapid integration of AI, almost half of the employees report receiving only moderate support for AI training. This lack of support can hinder adoption and delay return on investment. Lenovo addresses this issue with its AI Adoption and Change Management Services, which help organizations assess their readiness for AI, upskill employees, and optimize ROI through customized change management strategies and best practices. Key offerings include:
- AI People Readiness Assessment: Evaluates employee preparedness for AI transformation, identifying targeted enablement strategies and high-impact use cases.
- Persona-Based Training & Engagement: Customizes adoption programs by role to accelerate confidence, reduce resistance, and increase engagement.
- Copilot Adoption: Equips employees to integrate generative AI tools, such as Copilot, through targeted training and productivity tracking.
- AI Governance & Cultural Readiness: Aligns leadership and teams on the responsible use of AI, fostering an AI-ready culture.
Ken Wong, Executive Vice President and President of Lenovo’s Solutions and Services Group, emphasizes that successful AI adoption hinges on a clear strategy, expert guidance, and the right technology. Lenovo’s Hybrid AI Advantage is engineered to deliver significant performance improvements, enabling organizations to operate more efficiently and with greater confidence.
Validated AI Solutions
Lenovo’s Hybrid AI Advantage enables enterprises to move beyond AI experimentation and achieve measurable results. The company’s pre-validated, purpose-built solutions are fully assembled, performance-tuned, and tested for ISV applications and real-world workflows. Notable industry applications include:
- Hospitality (Centific AI Data Foundry): Enhances guest loyalty, operational efficiency, and profitability through real-time personalization and data-driven insights.
- Workplace Safety (Avathon Visual AI): Provides real-time hazard and PPE compliance monitoring, integrating with existing camera infrastructure to automate corrective actions and prevent accidents.
- Retail and Smart Spaces (WaitTime and Intel): Delivers real-time crowd analytics via Edge AI, transforming camera feeds into actionable insights that drive revenue and guest satisfaction.
- Quality Inspection (Trifolk and NVIDIA): Automates defect detection and model retraining, converting real-time sensor data into actionable insights on the factory floor.
Expanded Ecosystem
Lenovo’s expansion enhances partnerships with industry leaders like Cisco, IBM, NVIDIA, and more than 60 ISV AI innovators, all focused on accelerating enterprise AI adoption. The new platforms are built on advanced, energy-efficient infrastructure that integrates accelerated computing, networking, and software from leading partners. Key innovations include:
- Lenovo ThinkSystem SR680a V4: Delivers massive computational performance for AI model development and simulation workloads, featuring Intel Xeon 6 CPUs and eight NVIDIA B300 GPUs interconnected with high-speed NVLink. This system offers up to 11x faster AI inferencing on large language models and significant improvements in computational capability and memory.
- Lenovo Hybrid AI Platform with IBM watsonx: Combines Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 servers, Red Hat OpenShift, and NVIDIA technologies to accelerate generative AI model development, deployment, and governance. The SR675 V3 Server features Lenovo’s Neptune hybrid cooling module, which quickly dissipates heat in a closed-loop liquid-to-air heat exchanger, delivering the benefits of liquid cooling without the need for additional plumbing.
- Lenovo Hybrid AI 285 Platform with Cisco: The first platform to qualify integrated Cisco Nexus switches with NVIDIA Spectrum-X, enabling 1.6x faster AI network performance and industry-leading management. Built on the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3, it supports up to eight NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, providing a universal data center system for AI factories.
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3
Regardless of where an enterprise is on its AI journey, Lenovo’s Hybrid AI Advantage delivers a proven infrastructure and services to help customers achieve tangible business outcomes, whether they are starting, scaling, or optimizing their AI capabilities. The end-to-end portfolio supports deployment on devices, at the edge, and in the cloud, marking a turning point for democratized, personalized AI.
Strategic Partnerships Driving Digital Transformation
Lenovo and Cisco have strengthened their global strategic partnership, focusing on integrated infrastructure and networking solutions to accelerate digital transformation. Their collaboration, formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), focuses on delivering turnkey solutions that utilize best-in-class networking and AI infrastructure, extending from the edge to the cloud.
The ongoing partnership will create a hyper-personalized user experience, enhance operational efficiency, and decrease time-to-value, all while simplifying procurement and management through a single provider. Key benefits include accelerated innovation, unified network management, and streamlined purchasing.
Lenovo’s Digital Workplace Solutions will integrate new technologies to enhance user experience and security, while the partnership’s channel network supports flexible, comprehensive AI-enabled infrastructure solutions. These solutions are tested and optimized for interoperability, accelerating business outcomes and go-to-market strategies.
Lenovo Tech World: Showcasing the Future of Hybrid AI
At Lenovo Tech World in Seattle, Chairman and CEO Yuanqing Yang introduced the Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage in collaboration with NVIDIA. This initiative leverages full-stack hybrid AI capabilities and generative AI agents to unlock enterprise data for enhanced intelligence across platforms.
Highlights include:
- Accelerated AI Adoption: The partnership with NVIDIA enables faster business outcomes by combining Lenovo’s AI library with NVIDIA’s computing and networking capabilities, thereby improving ROI.
- Addressing Business Challenges: With 61% of CIOs struggling to demonstrate AI ROI, Lenovo’s pre-validated solutions are designed to bridge this gap.
- Rapid Deployment: The Lenovo AI Fast Start program allows organizations to validate AI use cases within weeks, leveraging NVIDIA’s AI Enterprise software.
- AI Library: Provides domain-specific language models and accelerators for various use cases, including marketing and customer service.
- Modernizing Technology: Lenovo’s Data and Tech Foundations for AI service helps organizations assess and modernize their platforms for maximum AI value.
- AI-Ready Infrastructure: Lenovo Neptune Liquid Cooling solutions deliver energy efficiency and high performance across more than 80 new platforms.
Lenovo’s Hybrid AI Advantage, enhanced by partnerships with NVIDIA and Cisco, advances the deployment of enterprise AI, offering integrated and scalable solutions that help organizations modernize their IT, accelerate AI adoption, and achieve business results.
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