Lenovo and Cisco have unveiled a global strategic partnership to deliver fully integrated infrastructure and networking solutions designed to accelerate digital transformation for businesses of all sizes. The two companies signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly establish design, engineering and execution plans to accelerate digital transformation with turnkey solutions that expand world-class networks and infrastructure solutions purpose-built AI solutions from edge to cloud for customers around the world. .
The MOU reflects the commitment to expand commercialization opportunities that drive the delivery of advanced generative AI capabilities and improved digital workplace productivity. Lenovo and Cisco intend to create a hyper-personalized user experience that maximizes operational excellence, reduces time to value, and supports cost-effective, flexible, and simplified implementation of transformational digital technologies.
Acclaimed networking ecosystem
The collaboration includes the integration of the Cisco Nexus networking ecosystem into Lenovo’s Edge-to-Cloud portfolio to deliver best-in-class network performance, enhanced security and unmatched scalability. This provides customers with a fully integrated, turnkey networking solution optimized for interoperability within Lenovo infrastructure solutions, providing the industry’s strongest foundation of performance, reliability and security. Additional customer benefits include:
delivering operational excellence, AI/ML networking, greater sustainability, and advanced automation analytics practices.
– Single-panel management: Provides customers with a single, simple interface to configure, operate and analyze network operations across the entire network ecosystem.
– Vendor Simplicity: Ensuring customers can purchase a fully-built infrastructure solution from a single technology provider.
Accelerated innovation for better business outcomes
Lenovo and Cisco will work to integrate new technologies and features into Lenovo Digital Workplace solutions, enabling a seamless, efficient and enhanced user experience with enhanced security. The collaboration will bring together Lenovo’s Care of One platform, with its personality-based service engine, and Cisco’s best-in-class technology. These solutions will deliver unparalleled productivity, combining the best of both companies, regardless of where the work takes place.
Integrated turnkey solutions
Lenovo offers the industry’s most comprehensive AI portfolio, from edge to cloud, with industry-leading hardware, software and services to manage AI workloads of all sizes and help customers navigate their AI journey. Under the MoU, Cisco and Lenovo will collaborate to enhance generative AI solutions for enterprise customers. The partnership will be complemented by an expanded network of joint channel partners trained in the two companies’ combined technology portfolio, providing customers with more choice and a flexible experience to accelerate their digital transformation. The strategic partnership will provide integrated infrastructure solutions and services that are tested and optimized for interoperability, enabling customers to accelerate go-to-market initiatives and business outcomes.
Kirk Skaugen, executive vice president of Lenovo and president of Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group
This new partnership demonstrates our commitment to delivering cutting-edge, tailored solutions, all designed to simplify the path to AI innovation and digital transformation. Our combined leadership in advanced networking and end-to-end server and data management infrastructure will deliver fully integrated, co-engineered solutions that seamlessly connect, protect and analyze data to power data-driven innovation. on AI for our customers, from edge to cloud.
Jonathan Davidson, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Cisco Networking
Integrated solutions from Lenovo and Cisco will streamline operational deployment and significantly improve business outcomes for our joint customers, while providing tremendous opportunities for our joint partners.
