Data centre
Embrace the possibilities of the hybrid cloud
Adoption of the cloud has allowed businesses to safeguard their resources while building a solid infrastructure that can...
Adoption of the cloud has allowed businesses to safeguard their resources while building a solid infrastructure that can...
IT decision-makers can no longer afford to ignore the influence of gamification in their multibillion-dollar business. We cover...
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies are advancing to the point where they can generate exceptional...
We are currently in the middle of an ‘information explosion’. 44 trillion gigabits of data will be used...
As hyper-convergence sets the data centre change agenda and next-generation solutions apply the ‘software-defined’ prefix throughout the infrastructure, IT...
The designation ‘supercomputer’ has changed. No longer does it strictly define the highly customised petaflop powerhouses that cost...
Pumping pints of water in and out of live HPC servers to keep them cool might at first...
Etymologists of IT jargon have hesitated to downgrade big data’s currency as an industry buzzword, but times appear...
Gartner’s latest worldwide survey of CIO agendas confirmed a shift in enterprise IT spend toward digitalisation of business...
Throughout 2017, cloud adoption has continued to be a major change-driver in enterprise IT strategies, with the public...
As news of cost savings attributable to software-defined data centre (SDDC) technologies reaches C-suite executives, it’s a sure...
Technology drives data centre design, and a primary goal for data centre architects is to build facilities so...
A single-vendor approach to the data centre means being tied to that one company for all your hardware...
Networking is catching up with the rest of data centre technology. Lenovo’s innovative Cloud Network Operating System (CNOS),...
There may be no greater misunderstood or underutilised emerging technologies for business at the moment than augmented reality...
We’ve come a long way since the day of the Pocket PC, and we can expect things to...
In IT, the next five years will move faster than the last 10 to 15 years. While it...
AR and VR technologies are gaining traction – not just in the gaming world, but in business too....
According to a 2016 study, 35 per cent of the total US workforce are freelancing. Another predicts that...
Generation Z is entering the workplace. We look at their hopes and expectations, and how employers can adapt.
Cutting out unnecessary meetings and time lost due to ineffective processes means motivated professionals can make the most...
The best business apps need to combine maximum functionality – from finding leads and running a project to...
Security continues to be a central issue for many companies, which is not surprising given the attention it...
Cloud providers are appealing to companies with innovative services, agile IT solutions and dynamically expandable resources. However, when processing...
Artificial Intelligence has finally arrived. After years of stagnation and research, the discipline is now experiencing a true...
Danish provider Cloud Factory has offered cloud solutions for small and medium-sized companies since 2014. A former subsidiary...
Traditional data centres are too rigid, inflexible and expensive for today’s business needs. But new virtualisation technologies are bringing...
These days, having a high-performing IT infrastructure is key to business success. However, it is also important to...
Faced with an influx of data and the need to effectively extract its value, companies need to be...
As businesses and their needs change rapidly, IT departments have to develop their infrastructures quickly, otherwise there is...
Add the cloud to legacy systems, and IT infrastructures look increasingly like a patchwork of different blocks that...
Whether they are internal or external, today’s users expect the highest quality of service when accessing company resources. Technologies...
Data centres are changing, becoming software-defined data centres, with IT organisations at varying levels of maturity. How is...
Legacy enterprise customers could be stifling innovation due to how they procure technology, but there are ways hyper-convergence...
Storage is changing. Lower costs, higher densities and performance advantages are making all-flash vSAN the storage technology of...
Analytics is now mainstream, helping companies of every size in ever industry drive business, streamline processes and improve...
Simpler, more flexible and more scalable, hyper-convergence brings a range of business and technical benefits to the data...
For all the excitement around microservices and cloud-native apps, enterprise hasn’t lost the need for traditional applications. In fact,...
Enterprise class storage arrays have been the go-to data centre solution for decades. Now, distributed server-based systems are rapidly...
A partner like SAP needs to consider how it maximises its hardware to make its cloud offering consistent,...
Soeren Genzler, Lenovo’s Center of Competence for SAP Solutions Leader EMEA, offers an insight into the partnership with...
In a converted 19th-century church on the outskirts of Barcelona sits a computer so overwhelmingly powerful, it could...
PC competitive analyst Kevin Beck is something of a ThinkPad legend at Lenovo HQ, and when it comes...
As big data becomes increasingly strategic to organisations, conventional technologies are failing to fulfil their needs. Only high-performance computing...
Software-defined HPC brings data-intensive computing to some of the biggest challenges facing today’s businesses, wherever they are in the...
In the wake of several high-profile security breaches in the past few years, the usefulness of passwords is...
Virtual reality is finally on the cusp of being established, with several devices offering various degrees of immersion.
It’s the distributed ledger technology gaining traction in firms across a range of industries, but many CIOs are still...
ThinkBlog’s ‘Securing your business’ series has highlighted the some of the biggest cases of digital information breaches. But...
According to a recent National Crime Agency report, ‘cyber-enabled fraud’ has now overtaken all other forms of crime...
When huge amounts of information need to be shared, organisations face a choice: they can develop a bespoke...
Your business is probably already very good at selling itself to prospective customers. But when it comes to...
Rick Koopman, EMEA HPC and Hyperscale Technical Leader, talks about Lenovo’s plans for ISC High Performance, which runs over...
Businesses that cling abjectly to archaic processes are headed for one of two fates: acquisition or extinction.
While many enterprises go to great lengths to establish IT and business governance frameworks based on ‘best practice’, the reality...
Business goals, life goals, fitness goals, relationship goals – there is no self-development book or programme that does...
Some of the world’s leading companies have ditched the performance review, while even more have stopped rating employee...
While the jury is still out on whether cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum will ever supplant real...
Today’s economy is driven by knowledge flow, creativity and the ability to think outside the box. As automation...
People talking about what they do and don’t like about a product on social media, internet forums and the comment...
Bring your own device (BYOD) is great for morale, but what happens when an employee’s device is lost...
These days, everyone in IT is talking about converged or hyper-converged solutions — almost if they were the...
As the digital workplace becomes more amorphous, and workforces more mobile and less pinned down to one location,...
In June this year, British parliament’s email system was hacked. You might have thought, or hoped, that the...
Achieving true enterprise mobility means more than simply getting to grips with devices and systems. It’s a culture...
A year of increasing enterprise agility, information saturation, and unwelcome visitors – here’s a snapshot of the ups...
Hyper-convergence is the essence of simple IT. It consolidates processes and systems; one place, one view. It now...
X6 servers are the high end of Lenovo’s server portfolio. The x3850 X6 is a 4U rack server...
Today, 80 percent of the worldwide x86 rack-server revenue comes from one- or two-socket servers. So why do...
Big changes in computing will soon leave many companies more vulnerable to hackers. Here’s how to create a...
Thorsten Stremlau, Lenovo’s Director of the Global Large Enterprise Segment Product and Offering Strategy, on why having to...
Thorsten Stremlau, Lenovo’s WW Principal IT Architect, on how sensor technology has evolved and how it could even...
Each of our digital wardrobes is unique. By not understanding what it is and how to use it,...
Not speaking to your PC yet? Lenovo’s Thorsten Stremlau says voice-controlled virtual assistants is the technology that’s on everyone’s...
Thorsten Stremlau, Lenovo’s WW Principal IT Architect, on how Lenovo uses both Intel Authenticate and SGX to take...
Thorsten Stremlau, Lenovo’s WW Principal IT Architect, on why you should buy a PC with an enterprise-ready preload.
Most customers find data growth a costly headache, and struggle to work out how to securely store, manage...
We now live in a highly connected world – one in which consumers manage their daily lives in...
In previous blogs, I have covered changes in the market that are impacting data centres such as big...
When it comes to ensuring that data centre compute power stays ahead, retrofitting the newest processors into yesterday’s...
At Lenovo, we believe it’s time to rethink data centre design basics by using platforms that can seamlessly...
It’s unclear whether Mark Twain ever actually uttered: “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into...
Tikiri Wanduragala, Lenovo’s EMEA x86 Server Systems Senior Consultant, writes for Think Progress about the company’s success in the...
Angelo Apa, the Lenovo Technical Sales and Business Development Director, speaks to Toni Collis, Co Funder of Women...
Rising expectations of customers, partners and your own workforce demand more from your data centre – deeper insights,...
Computational performance impacts outcomes. And outcomes impact business. That’s why high performance computing matters. Learn more from Lenovo here.
One-size-fits-all storage no longer works. Learn how companies like Lenovo are helping IT leaders architect a storage strategy...
Your cloud deployment is only as good as the infrastructure behind it. Learn why, and how the lessons...
The data centre is emerging as the heart of today’s connected world. Agility, automation, flexibility, resiliency and ease...
Hyperconvergence: It’s all about faster deployment, easier scaling and less hardware that fully maximises computing power. Learn from Lenovo...
Allowing employees to install their own applications may boost motivation, but the challenges it presents to the IT...
The private sector loves BYOD, but it seems to be relatively unpopular among public sector decision makers. Why...
Our reliance on technology means we are using more power now than ever before. But technology is also...
Adopting better work habits and learning useful skills should be a person’s first port of call when you’re...
GDPR will arrive in less than a year, so is it time to consider bringing in the professionals...
Shadow IT can pose serious security risks to enterprises through the use of unsanctioned cloud applications. With proper...
In a little under a year, the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) will come into force, but many...
David Ridley, Infrastructure Lead for Lenovo UK & I, focuses on the key trends that he sees affecting...
If millennials don’t already make up a significant portion of your workforce, they soon will. The cohort, broadly...
There’s a reason enterprise-wide data management platforms lend themselves so well to watery metaphors. When the amount of...
We all know that as technology matures, it becomes ingrained into our way of life: smaller, smarter, easier...
We stand on the cusp of a major technological metamorphosis – what some are calling the intelligence revolution....
Gesture-based holographic user interfaces have long been the preserve of science fiction films like _Minority Report_, but now...
According to software engineer James Damore, women are less suited to careers in coding because of their “stronger...
For organisations concerned about putting all their eggs in the public cloud basket, hybrid deployments can offer a...
Cyber-attacks have been back on the front page of late. But does that, albeit briefly, transform the IT...
Interviewing for new positions in an IT office can be a time-consuming and stressful process. Do you go...
The Secret IT Manager turns his attention towards the festive break and the difficulties posed by end-of-year boozy...
There are times we programmers get so lost in code that we fail to notice the most glaringly...
Embrace today’s increasingly flexible working practices by ensuring everything is in place to enable simple and seamless mobility,...
Data centre optimisation can have far-reaching consequences beyond the server room. It can free up IT to concentrate...
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are getting a lot of attention at the moment. What are the main...
Never-ending headlines about hacks and data breaches have cast a shadow over passwords, with many experts advocating the...
It’s no longer just about keeping the network up. IT is now a department that can provide a...
A data centre migration is one of the most complex projects an IT department can undertake. However, there...
Clean/tidy desk policies can have productivity, cost, security & compliance and visual benefits, as well as helping a...
The past 12 months have been a roller coaster for EMEA organisations faced with mounting cybersecurity and data...
From treadmill desks to walking meetings, today’s office workers have a wealth of options to add some variety...
Remote and flexible working is on the rise across Europe. A perfect storm of technological advances, changing attitudes,...
The corporate WAN is at the beating heart of the enterprise. It’s a vital link in your ICT...
In a world where the customer is king and digital transformation is the name of the game, any...
We take a look at what companies across Europe can do to improve energy efficiency, reducing overheads and...
The analysts are all singing its praises. With the levels of elasticity it can provide, hybrid cloud computing...
In recent decades, workers have relied on a law that most have never heard of. It’s a law...
Is falling productivity explained by a rise in procrastination? And, if so, what are the best ways to...
Your IQ score was how people – and employers – used to measure intelligence, but smart firms are...
They’re people barely out of their twenties but already they’re running companies – so what’s the deal with...
No matter how hard organisations try to avoid it, the very practice of bringing diverse groups of people...
The competition is fierce in the IT employment sector. If you’re searching for that edge, here are a...
Business is set to be busy next year, so get some of the difficult planning done early
We live in a 24/7 world, where consumers and employees are constantly connected to the internet by tablets...
Activity-based workplaces are becoming crucial for fostering the productivity and creativity that gives today’s businesses a competitive edge.
We live in a 24/7 world, where consumers and employees are constantly connected to the internet by tablets...
Data security is critical for any business, and airtight security requires more passwords, which means more to remember....
An Englishman’s home might be his castle, but a desk is no longer an employee’s sole domain. The...
The imminent demise (July 2015) of Server 2003 is nothing new; its end of life has been on...
Is your workforce truly mobile? Or are your processes hampering the potential of your team?
Any business can experience growing pains when faced with the prospect of adopting new technology. But convincing the...
China is emerging as a world force in supercomputers, while the US looks to strike back. But where...
In recent years the relentless drive to move everything to the cloud has been an overwhelming focus for...
Working on the go can be a great experience – especially when you can access features especially for...
Which IT jobs pay the best in Europe? We take a look at ICT pay across the EU...
What new tech trends should you look out for in the coming year? Early information about September’s IFA...
In the Netherlands, workers are officially the happiest workforce in Europe. But what’s the secret to ‘going Dutch’,...
Security sits at the heart of our online existence, protecting our privacy, our identity and sometimes our lives....
The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to transform businesses, but almost three-quarters of all projects fail...
The involvement (or not) of Russia in the 2016 US presidential election has catapulted the concept of ‘fake...
Real-time data, processed and presented in simple and effective ways, represents a clear goal for CIOs: the better...
Collating responses from almost 5000 CIOs across the world, the Harvey Nash / KPMG CIO Survey 2017 offers...
In the next five years, the global bring your own device (BYOD) enterprise market is set to grow...
This year is fast becoming the year of the data breach, with the war online more aggressive, fierce...
Converged infrastructure, the cloud, big data analytics and future-minded IT practices are at the heart of the future-ready business....
The concept of a workplace culture can be difficult to define – loosely, it tends to mean the...
Is your management style getting the most out of your employees? Here are some tips to help you...
When it comes to preventing cyber-attacks, most companies concentrate their efforts on tooling up against external threats. But...
The technology sector and the secular meditative practice known as ‘mindfulness’ might seem like unlikely bedfellows. After all, technology...
No one knows exactly when an IT disaster will strike but when it does, the one certainty is...
Change is a constant, nowhere more so than in the office. Here are the biggest innovations on the...
Keen to know what will be big in 2018? We asked one of Lenovo’s tech experts about what...
Equipping your employees with the right digital skills can make a huge difference to your business. Here’s how...
Poor choice of devices, coupled with a digitally uneducated workforce and an IT department that’s not strict enough...
Your workplace might not be a danger zone, but your technology still needs to perform under pressure. Just...
A ‘choose your own device’ policy combines all the benefits of ‘bring your own device’, with none of...
The Chief Digital Officer (CDO) is one of the most important roles in any business, but many organisations...
Truth, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. As an IT professional, the next time you’re...
Whether you’re hiring a programmer or learning to code, knowing which languages are topping the charts and which...
The UK’s coalition government marked 2014 as the Year of Code, launching numerous initiatives to turn the nation’s...
Sustainable computing is an area undergoing rapid change following a huge increase in awareness. Purchasing decisions driven by...
Forewarned is forearmed, and with the new year just getting started, the time has come to look at...
In a move unheard of since the personal computing revolution of the 1980s, the government has thrown its...
Personal computers have reached a ubiquity that could barely be imagined just a decade or two ago, at...
It’s been estimated that we spend about 60,000 hours at work over a lifetime – that’s about 30 per...
Confident team members are happier and more productive, but not everyone has the innate ability to project confidence....
Forget what you think you know about managing remote employees. New research suggests that rather than being kept...
The most productive teams are those that are happiest. Here are five top tips for spreading the cheer.
Social collaboration tools promise to boost productivity and reduce the need for lengthy meetings and emails, but they’ve...
Happier teams are more productive, so here’s how to spread the joy among your team.
If you’re not already on LinkedIn, now’s the time to join. Whether it’s showcasing your company, recruiting staff...
Augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) are not gaming trends – they’re technologies set to revolutionise how we do business...
Robots revolted, virtual reality (VR) went wireless and there was a two-hour blackout in the central hall. But...
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning can change the entire model of cybersecurity from a ‘keep out’ strategy...
We take a look at some of the devices that prove the Industrial Internet of Things is about...
Just as businesses get a good handle on the cloud, we welcome edge computing: the next must-have in...
The right smart office tech can vastly improve employee motivation and wellbeing and save the business money. But...
The UK holds 33 of the spots on the FinTech50 list of most innovative firms in Europe. What...
See how corporate lawyer Clare Pearson uses her ThinkPad X220.
Whether you’re travelling for business or pleasure, technology has a solution for every conceivable mishap – making your...
