MAXIMIZE YOUR SERVER VALUE BY CHOOSING THE RIGHT MANAGEMENT PLATFORMLenovo presents a summary of a white paper prepared by Pund-IT

The successful journey of Intel x86-based systems into enterprise data centers has presented businesses and IT with great benefits but also with a newset of challenges.

Business Challenge Controlling the costs of managing business servers over their lifecycle.

Managing and maintaining system dependencies has become harder and is having measurable negative eects on organizations bottom lines.

Market research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) has estimated that while companies capital expenditures (CAPEX) on servers has remained the same since 2004, operational expenditures (OPEX) have more than doubled during the same period.

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Business ChallengeDealing with and simplifying IT complexities.

The evolution of data center technologies and the success of scale-out systems has made it dicult for companies to choose hardware and its management solutions as commodity x86 hardware is created and leveraged by a diverse group of server vendors.

As IT infrastructure grows, it is becoming a challenge to manage and escalate deployment and integration.

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How can you overcome these challenges of modern server management?

1 2 3Ensure you are using theright systems management solution.

Ensure that IT assets and processes are integrated.

Align IT requirementswith budgetstrategies.

right systems management solution

Ensure you are using the

Eective systems managementsolutions can enhance the value of servers across their entire lifecycle.

Lenovos new systems management platform called Lenovo XClarityTM

Administrator helps enterprise IT customers address complexities arising out of having sprawling infrastructures and a massive amount of servers

Ensure thatIT assets andprocesses areintegrated

Integrated IT assets and processes enable visibility over hardware processes, giving you greater control.

Lenovo XClarity provides a centralized point of integration into external, higher level soware tools

It integrates easily with clients core platforms and third-party tools

It supports centralized SSL certificate management for endpoints

Align IT requirements with

budget strategies

With right-size IT purchases, you can align to budget strategies.

Lenovo XClarity addresses the server management challenges for IT sta as it improves core features and functionalities

An eective systems management solution like Lenovo XClarity enables companies to adapt and adopt IT at the speed of their business

WhyLenovo?

Overall, [] the company has succeeded in developing an entirely new system management solution that clearly capitalizes on existing Lenovo strengths and fresh innovations to provide value capabilities that meet the needs of the companys enterprise and service provider customers.

Source: Pund-IT: Marketplace Update, Lenovo XClarity Enhancing Server Value with Innovative

System Management, April 2015.

Read the white paper by a third-party publisher Pund-IT to get the final verdict on Lenovos solution for the demands of x86-based systems.

Find out howLenovo can help you automate andintegrate your data center