Marketplace Update Lenovo（市场更新联想）.pdf

Marketplace Update April 2015 Lenovo XClarity – Enhancing Server Value with Innovative System Management By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. Pund-IT, Inc. Contact: Hayward, CA Office: 510-383-6767 U.S.A. 94541 Mobile: 510-909-0750 charles@ Lenovo XClarity – Enhancing Server Value with Innovative System Management By Charles King, Pund-IT, Inc. Introduction As with most mechanical devices, the cost of managing business servers over their lifecycle far outstrips their acquisition price. So it is wise for companies to adequately study their options prior to committing to any specific management platform. But in the case of Intel x86-based systems, the management solution market is remarkably complex and crowded with offerings from server vendors, OS players like Microsoft and Red Hat, virtualization solution vendors like VMware and third parties, including BMC. Despite that complexity, significantly innovative solutions can and do exist. For example, the new Lenovo XClarity system management offerings qualify as a notable achievement that should please and benefit the company’s server customers and prospects. Lenovo XClarity is obviously complementary to its own system and data center solutions, including System x and Flex System offerings. But Lenovo has also ensured that the new solutions can be easily integrated with other widely used server solutions, like Microsoft’s System Center and VMware’s vCenter. Most importantly, the Lenovo XClarity system management solutions offer organizations the flexibility to adopt and adapt to evolving data center technologies at the speed of their own business, not vendors or other parties. Modern server management