The corporate, which CEO Phil Bullinger at present leads, was based by Moshe Yanai in 2011. It additionally has an workplace in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Lenovo eyes high-end enterprise storage market
The acquisition is a part of Lenovo’s progress technique to satisfy the evolving wants of contemporary knowledge facilities which are anticipated to deal with AI and generative AI workloads, the corporate mentioned, including that Infinidat’s providing will discover synergy with its Infrastructure Options Group and collectively will goal the high-end enterprise storage market.
At present, Lenovo’s Infrastructure Options enterprise operates within the entry and mid-range enterprise storage market providing a portfolio of choices, equivalent to flash and hybrid arrays, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), software-defined storage (SDS), and knowledge administration suites equivalent to Lenovo TruScale.
“This can be a win-win for each corporations. Lenovo fills an enormous void in its storage portfolio, whereas Infinidat is ready to leverage a {hardware} design and manufacturing machine,” Matt Kimball, principal analyst at Moor Technique and Insights, wrote on LinkedIn.
Lenovo is anticipated to rapidly prepare its websites on Infinidat’s storage software program IP and look to the place it might leverage this extra broadly, Kimball defined, including that “if Lenovo’s channels are correctly leveraged, we are able to see actual disruption within the enterprise storage market.”
Early deal with the enterprise storage market
In response to analysts, Lenovo has been hyper-focused on the enterprise storage market because it acquired IBM’s x86 server enterprise for about $2.3 billion in 2014.
One other landmark deal for the corporate, focused at competing extra aggressively with Dell and HPE — the dominant gamers within the enterprise storage market, got here in 2018 within the type of a partnership with NetApp, below which it additionally developed a three way partnership in China to co-develop a brand new vary of ThinkSystem Infrastructure that imbibes NetApp’s knowledge administration experience.
