Lenovo has expanded its Hybrid AI Advantage with advisory and implementation services, industry solutions, and hybrid AI platforms. The company aims to transform enterprise IT for the age of AI by providing a modern infrastructure and full-stack capabilities.
The new solutions help businesses build, scale, and operate AI factories on high-performance servers with accelerated computing, networking, and partner integrations. As AI budgets triple to nearly 20% of IT budgets in 2025, enterprise IT must modernize with infrastructure that delivers efficiency, performance, and scalability.
“Lenovo is leading hybrid AI with groundbreaking advancements in integrated solutions that are driving industry-wide innovation and making enterprise-level AI attainable for every business. With these solutions and trusted partnerships, Lenovo is turning AI into reality with use cases and services that have been tested and proven to drive measurable productivity gains, boost satisfaction, and unlock data for real business value faster.”
Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, Lenovo President of Infrastructure Solutions Group
Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage
The company is transforming the global AI landscape with its hybrid AI infrastructure, solutions, and services. With a 40% year-over-year increase in customer adoptions, Lenovo’s Hybrid AI Advantage combines AI infrastructure, data, models, services, and proven use cases to help businesses activate AI across their workforce, operations, and data footprint, resulting in a 31% weekly time saved.
AI-Enabling Services that Support Scalable Infrastructure
The company’s AI Adoption and Change Management Services address the gap in AI training support, addressing half of employees’ perceptions of moderate support, thereby facilitating adoption, enhancing engagement, and maximizing ROI from enterprise systems through persona-based change management and best practices. Key applications include:
- Lenovo AI People Readiness Assessment: Assess employee readiness for AI transformation and identify targeted enablement strategies, personas, and high-impact use cases.
- Persona-Based Training & Engagement: Tailor adoption programs based on employee roles to accelerate confidence, reduce resistance, and boost engagement.
- Copilot Adoption: Equip employees to successfully integrate generative AI tools, like Copilot, through targeted training, change planning, and productivity tracking.
- AI Governance & Cultural Readiness: Help leadership and teams align on responsible AI use, overcome resistance, and embed AI-friendly ways of working.
Lenovo’s new services have significantly improved outcomes across various industries, enabling teams to work confidently with AI. For instance, a three-month advisory program accelerated an airline’s AI-powered digital workplace transformation, while Lenovo solutions are boosting AI workflows for faster medical diagnoses and manufacturing outcomes.
Driving Industry Transformation with Validated, Purpose-Built AI Solutions
Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage enables enterprises to achieve measurable outcomes by providing trusted AI applications that address key business use cases and scale to support workflows.. Leveraging validated Lenovo AI Innovator designs with ISVs, new Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage Solutions are easy to customize, performance-tuned, and tested, delivering real business workflows and use cases on hybrid AI platforms:
- Hospitality with Centific AI Data Foundry and NVIDIA: Enables hotels and resorts with capabilities that boost guest loyalty, optimize efficiency, and drive profitability. These include real-time personalization, streamlined operations, and data-driven insights.
- Workplace Safety & PPE Compliance with Avathon Visual AI and NVIDIA: Powers real-time hazard and PPE compliance monitoring, to instantly detect safety risks, violations, and hazardous behaviors. Working with existing camera infrastructure for seamless integration and deployment, the solution also automates corrective actions to prevent accidents.
- Retail and Smart Spaces with WaitTime and Intel: Delivers real-time crowd analytics via Edge AI-based computer vision and transforms camera feeds into instant insights that drive revenue growth and enhance guest satisfaction by up to 30% in some deployments.
- Quality Inspection with Trifork and NVIDIA: Delivers automated defect detection, on-device model retraining, and transforms real-time sensor data into actionable insights on the factory floor.
Expanded Ecosystem Delivers the Hybrid AI Factory of Modern Business
The expansion builds on Lenovo’s partnerships with Cisco, IBM, and NVIDIA, delivering new integrated solutions that accelerate global enterprise AI adoption. Built on advanced, energy-efficient AI infrastructure integrated with accelerated computing, networking, switching, and software from industry-leading partners, new platforms help enterprises build, scale, and operate hybrid AI factories:
- New Lenovo ThinkSystem SR680a V4 system: The air-cooled system, featuring Intel Xeon 6 CPUs, eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, eight NVIDIA SuperNICs, and an NVIDIA BlueField-3 DPU, is designed to unleash AI’s potential by delivering massive computational performance for model development, graphical, and simulation workloads across industries. It offers up to 11x faster AI inferencing on large language models.
- Lenovo hybrid AI platform with IBM watsonx: The platform delivers ready-to-deploy, high-performance AI infrastructure, built on Lenovo ThinkSytem SR675 servers, Red Hat OpenShift, and NVIDIA, accelerating generative AI model development, deployment, and governance.
- Lenovo Hybrid AI platform with Cisco: The enhanced platform, built on a Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 server, supports Cisco Nexus switches with NVIDIA Spectrum-X technology, enhancing AI factory deployments and enabling faster network performance. It supports AI use cases as new environments or extensions of existing IT infrastructure, enabling a universal data center system for AI factories, promoting GPU-accelerated infrastructure.
Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage offers trusted AI infrastructure for enterprises, enabling real business outcomes. It provides integrated solutions deployed on devices, edge, and cloud, democratizing AI.
Explore more hybrid AI solutions and see how Lenovo is powering the future of modern business by visiting Lenovo’s website.
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