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Lenovo Company Overview 2

X86 Server Marketplace 2

Customer Buying Motivations 3

Lenovo Product Overview 4 System x Enterprise Servers 5 Lenovo High-Density Servers 6 NeXtScale System M5 6 System x iDataPlex® dx360 M4 6 Lenovo Blade Servers 7 Lenovo Tower Servers 8 Lenovo Rack Servers 9

Intel Server Processors 10 Intel Mainstream Platforms Comparison Chart 10 Intel Atom Processor 11 More Intel Inside 12

Competitive Landscape 13 Dell® 13 HP® 13 IBM® 13 Fujitsu® 16 Oracle® 16 Cisco® 16

What Sellers Need to Know 17 Lenovo SELECT Program Links 17 Training Resources 17 Selling Resources 17

1 Lenovo Company Overview

Lenovo Group Ltd. is a US$39 billion multinational technology company with headquarters in Beijing, China, and Morrisville, North Carolina. It was founded as “Legend” in 1984 and changed its name to Lenovo in 2004.

The company develops, manufactures, and markets reliable, high-quality, secure, and easy-to-use technology products and services. Its product lines include legendary Think-branded commercial PCs and Idea-branded X86 Server Marketplace consumer PCs, as well as servers, workstations, and a family of mobile Internet devices, including tablets and The server market is very dynamic. Web Hosting Geeks smartphones. In 2013, Lenovo was the world’s largest published an article entitled, “Has the Worldwide Server computer vendor by unit sales. They acquired IBM’s Market Rebounded?” that looks at recent trends and the personal computer business in 2005 and IBM’s System x outlook for the server market in the future. business in 2014. In the U.S., there are five major players in the server Lenovo has over 54,000 employees, including more market – HP, IBM, Dell, Oracle, and Cisco. Gartner analyst than 3,200 engineers, researchers, and scientists. It has Errol Rasit outlines the opportunities for each vendor in operations in 60+ countries and sells its products in 160+ the cbronline.com article, “Top 5 Companies Driving the countries. As a global Fortune 500 company, Lenovo Server Market 2014.” As a side note, Lenovo’s purchase of has major research centers in Yamato, Japan; Beijing, IBM’s System x line adds them to the mix in the U.S. market. Shanghai; Shenzhen, China; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Raleigh, North Carolina.

The Enterprise Channel in the U.S. is a huge opportunity for Lenovo, and their SELECT Partner Program won the Channel 5 Star Award by CRN in 2014. In addition, Lenovo is the #1 storage vendor solution in Japan (ahead of Hitachi and EMC).

arrow.com | 800 544 7674 2 Customer Buying Motivations The cost savings found in this study revolved around several operating expense (OPEX) factors. This is a major selling What is driving the purchase of x86 point for new technology acquisition: hardware maintenance

based systems? costs rise over time, new systems are more energy (and space) efficient, and older systems require more staff attention due The IDC study, “The Cost of Retaining Aging IT to maintenance required and failures. Upgrading resulted in a Infrastructure,” provides some interesting insight from an return on investment (ROI) of more than 150% over three years. IDC server workload study of 1,000+ sites finding: In addition, it found the payback period of the initial investment -- 39% of new server acquisitions occurred as part of was 11.7 months.

routine or planned server refresh. From an operating environment standpoint, Windows is the dominate operating system for x86-based servers -- 33% of purchases were for new application project. and represents approximately 60% of overall new license -- 28% supported additional compute capacity. shipment volume. While Linux represents 40% of the volume according to the IDC white paper, “Oracle Linux: Engineered In addition, IDC studies quoted in this white paper found: into a Business-Class Solution.” This study also provides the following insights into the workloads of Linux servers: -- Maintenance/management costs generate twice as

much in total IT costs as server acquisition.

-- Failure rates begin to climb as servers aged into their -- Linux is best known for bringing attributes that historically fourth year and beyond. were associated with UNIX, including scalability, reliability, and portability to x86-based systems.

-- For every dollar invested in new technology, two and a -- Linux servers are the leading Web workload environment.

half times was eventually saved over a period of three -- The largest growth area for Linux is in the commercial years per 100 users using the new system. workloads space.

-- Linux holds in excess of 90% market of -- 80% of staff time is spent on maintaining existing HPC installations. infrastructure; 20% is spent on innovation and value- -- Linux is ported to every major architecture in commercial added initiatives. use, including mainframes, CISC, RISC, x86, and low-end ARM and Atom processors.

-- Linux captures approximately 50% of UNIX migrations, with Windows capturing the other 50%.

-- IDC Research suggests that UNIX customers are great prospects for migration – in part due to the standardization efforts on Linux and x86 hardware.

3 Competitive replacements of older technology are also a good This study also highlights the importance of power and cooling opportunity. Older IBM POWER-based UNIX systems are costs. It notes that these costs grew eight times as fast a prime targets for replacement. The IDC white paper, “Server server acquisition costs. In addition, costs for maintenance Transition Alternatives: A Business Value View Focusing on and management, viewed as a category, grew four times as Operating Costs,” was written to promote upgrading to newer fast as server acquisition costs. Both of these areas are key POWER technology, but also provides several important selling points of x86-based systems. Customers looking to points that apply to x86 servers, including: control these expenses make good prospects for selling new -- Customers can gain a quick ROI after upgrading to x86 technology. newer technology. Competitive conversions from HP or HP PA-RISC- -- A weakness of older POWER systems is energy based HP-UX systems and Oracle SPARC-based Oracle consumption – an x86 server strength. Solaris systems pose a ripe opportunity for sellers. The -- POWER hardware and software maintenance fees for these SUSE white paper, “The Case for Migrating from Itanium/ servers rise over time, making them expensive to maintain as HP-UX to x86/SUSE Linux Enterprise Server,” provides a they get older – another compelling reason for customers to detailed discussion of the features and technology differences upgrade to new technology. between HP-UX and Linux environments. SUSE covers -- Upgrading to newer POWER technology increases Oracle Solaris to SUSE features and technology differences productivity for IT staff (reduced OPEX) and avoids in the white paper, “The Case for Migrating from SPARC/ hardware, software, and facilities cost requirements – both Oracle Solaris to x86/SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.” As an key value propositions for current x86 technology. additional reference, the SUSE white paper, “Modernize Your Data Center,” covers IBM POWER/AIX conversions to x86/

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Lenovo Products Overview

Lenovo produces a large line of computer systems, including laptops, tablets, desktops, all-in-ones, workstations, servers, and storage. Lenovo has traditionally focused on rack servers and towers with their ThinkServer® tower servers and ThinkServer rack servers. With the acquisition of IBM’s System x® line, Lenovo’s server line has been expanded to not only include System x tower servers and System x rack servers, but also System x high density servers, System x blade servers, and System x enterprise servers – all new areas for Lenovo.

The System x product line boasts X6 architecture that provides X6 modular book technology, integrates flash memory technology, and provides for features on demand.

arrow.com | 800 544 7674 4 Lenovo’s ThinkServer servers support the following operating and virtual environments:

Operating Environments Virtualization Environments

Microsoft® Windows™ VMware® Red Hat® Linux KVM SUSE® Linux Microsoft Hyper-V™ Citrix® Xen™

The operating system support matrix contains complete details.

Lenovo’s System x servers support the following operating and virtual environments:

Operating Environments Virtualization Environments

Microsoft® Windows™ VMware® Red Hat® Linux KVM SUSE® Linux Microsoft Hyper-V™ Canonical® Ubuntu Oracle® Linux Asianux Server Oracle Solaris™

The System x operating system list contains complete details.

System x Enterprise Servers

System x enterprise servers feature X6 architecture and leverage mainframe server design in an industry-standard platform. IBM x3950 X6 and x3850 X6 are the first servers designed and optimized for memory-channel storage. By leveraging unique eXFlash memory-channel storage, X6 systems can deliver unmatched storage performance and capacity.

Maximum Maximum Maximum Model Form Factor Processor Family Processors Cores Memory System x3850 X6 4U Rack Intel Xeon E7-4800/8800 4 60 6.0TB System x3950 X6 8U Rack Intel Xeon E7-4800/8800 8 120 12.0TB System x3850/x3950 X5 4U Rack Intel Xeon E7 4 40 3.0TB System x3690 X5 2U Rack Intel Xeon E7 2 20 1.0TB IBM BladeCenter HX5 Blade Intel Xeon E7 4 40 1.25TB

5 Lenovo High-Density Servers

Lenovo provides platforms for compute-intense workloads, including technical computing, grid, analytics cloud, HPC, technical computing, and more.

NeXtScale System M5 System x iDataPlex® dx360 M4

The NeXtScale System™ provides dense performance The System x iDataPlex dx360 is designed to optimize across compute, I/O, storage, and acceleration functions density and performance within a typical data center’s in a cost- and energy-effective way. NeXtScale is available infrastructure limits. The unique half-depth form factor with a choice of air-cooled or water-cooled offerings with improves compute density in a space-constrained data the following features: center. Features include:

-- Single architecture based on open standards that -- High performance, half-depth server that supports compute, storage, and acceleration for a provides outstanding performance, power, and variety of workloads cooling efficiencies

-- Platform features independent, self-sufficient -- Innovative dual socket system with multiple servers with no single point of contention across compute, storage, and I/O configuration options to the entire system fit customer requirements

-- Run and manage at any scale, the system enables -- Up to two 2.7 GHz, 12-core Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 users to start small and scale rapidly as needed Series processors

-- Dense 6U chassis contains 12 bays for compute, -- Up to 512 GB of DDR3 memory per server storage, and acceleration servers -- Up to 8.0 TB HDD storage per 2U chassis

-- Shared six power supply units and 10 hot-swap -- Up to two servers per 2U chassis mountable in a fans for chassis standard enterprise rack or iDataPlex rack -- Servers are half-wide 1U form factor servers

-- Servers contain up to two Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 Series processors

-- Sixteen IBM DDR4 memory

-- Storage Native Expansion Tray provides seven additional 3.5-inch SAS/SATA hard disk drives (HDDs) and up to 32 TB maximum capacity per server

arrow.com | 800 544 7674 6 Lenovo Blade Servers

Lenovo provides two blade server platforms – Flex System and BladeCenter. Both provide a powerful, dense platform for both large and small businesses. The BladeCenter is a traditional system providing chassis, blade servers, storage, and networking options managed from a common infrastructure. The Flex System goes beyond blades by providing integrated compute, networking, and storage managed by integrated systems management.

Target workloads include virtualization, cloud, grid computing, web servers, infrastructure applications, high performance computing (HPC), and technical computing.

BladeCenter Compute Node Summary

Brand Model Form Factor Processor Family Max Processors Max Cores Max Memory

Single-Wide Intel Xeon E7-8800 BladeCenter HX5 4 10 1.25TB Double-Wide Intel Xeon E7-2800

BladeCenter HS23 Single-Wide Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 2 12 512GB BladeCenter HS23E Single-Wide Intel Xeon E5-2400 v2 2 8 192GB

Note: Blade Centers support the same operating environments as all System x servers.

Flex System Compute Node Summary

Brand Model Form Factor Processor Family Max Processors Max Cores Max Memory Flex System x220 Standard Node Intel Xeon E5-2400 2 16 384GB Flex System x222 Standard Node Intel Xeon E5-2400 2 16 384GB Flex System x240 Standard Node Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 2 24 768GB Flex System x240 M5 Double-Wide Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 2 36 1.5TB Node Flex System X440 Double-Wide Intel Xeon E5-4600 v2 4 48 1.5TB Node Flex System X280 X6 Standard Node Intel Xeon E7-2800 v2 2 30 3.0TB Flex System X480 X6 Standard Node Intel Xeon E7-4800 v2 4 60 6.0TB Flex System X880 X6 Standard Node Intel Xeon E7-2800 v2 8 120 12.8TB

Note: Flex Systems support Microsoft Windows Serer, SUSE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and VMware.

7 Lenovo Tower Servers

Lenovo provides both ThinkServer Tower Servers and System x Tower Servers. These servers are designed for both small- to medium-sized businesses, as well as large enterprises that require a tower form factor. Target workloads include virtualization, cloud, web servers, infrastructure applications, high performance computing (HPC), and technical computing.

Summary Chart of Select Metrics

Brand Model Form Factor Processor Family Max Processors Max Cores Max Memory ThinkServer TS140 4U Tower Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 1 32GB ThinkServer TS440 5U Tower Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 1 32GB ThinkServer TD340 5U Tower Intel Xeon E5-2400 v2 2 192GB ThinkServer TD350 4U Tower Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 2 512GB Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3 (quad core)

System x x3100 M5 4U/5U Tower Core i3 (dual core) 1 4 32GB Pentium (dual core)

Celeron (dual core) 5U Tower or System x M4 Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 2 24 768GB Rack System x x3300 M4 4U Tower Intel Xeon E5-2400 2 192GB Intel Xeon E3-1200v2 (quad core) System x x3100 M4 4U/5U Tower 1 4 32GB Intel Core i3 2100 (dual core)

arrow.com | 800 544 7674 8 Lenovo Rack Servers

Lenovo provides both ThinkServer Rack Servers and System x Rack Servers. These servers are designed for both small- to medium-sized businesses, as well as large enterprises. Target workloads include virtualization, cloud, web servers, infrastructure applications, high performance computing (HPC), and technical computing.

Max Max Max Brand Model Form Factor Processor Family Processors Cores Memory ThinkServer RS140 1U Rack Intel Xeon E3-1285 v3 1 32GB ThinkServer RD340 1U Rack Intel Xeon E5-2400 v2 2 20 192GB ThinkServer RD440 2U Rack Intel Xeon E5-2400 v2 2 20 192GB ThinkServer RD540 1U Rack Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 2 24 320GB Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 ThinkServer RD640 2U Rack 2 24 320GB Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 ThinkServer RD550 1U Rack Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 2 18 768GB ThinkServer RD650 2U Rack Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 2 18 768GB System x TD350 4U Rack Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 2 18 512GB System x x3650 M5 2U Rack Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 2 36 1.5TB System x x3550 M5 1U Rack Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 2 36 1.5TB

Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3

System x x3250 M5 1U Rack Intel Core i3 1 48 32GB

Intel PentiuM

System x x3750 M4 2U Rack Intel Xeon E5-4600 v2 4 24 1.5TB System x x3650 M4 2U Rack Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 2 24 32GB System x x3630 M4 2U Rack Intel Xeon E5-2400 v2 2 20 1.5TB System x x3550 M4 1U Rack Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 2 24 768TB System x x3530 M4 1U Rack Intel Xeon E5-2400 v2 2 20 384GB

Intel Xeon E3-1200v2 (quad core) System x x3250 M4 1U Rack 1 4 32GB Intel Core i3 2100

Pentium (2-core)

IDataPlex 1U Rack/2U System x Intel Xeon E5-2600 v2 2 24 512MB dx360 M4 Chassis System x x3755 M3 2U Rack AMD 6300 4 64 512MB

9 Intel Server Processors

Many of Lenovo’s x86 servers are based on Intel The next generation of processors in 2015 will be processors. New technology generations provide Broadwell, Intel’s fifth-generation Core processor improved performance and/or reduced power. As and will ship in the first quarter of next year. In Intel fellow Mark Bohr explains in his video, “14nm the second half of 2015, users will be able to buy Transistor Explained – Following the Path of the newer Skylake architecture, which will bring Moore’s Law,” the reduction in transistor size from wire-free computing and significant performance 22nm to 14nm provides better performance and upgrades. Intel’s next generation 10nm Cannonlake less overall power consumption. The technical microarchitecture will arrives in 2016. The presentation, “Advancing Moor’s Law in 2014 – The Cannonlake microarchitecture being a die shrink Road to 14nm,” provides additional details of the and is regarded as a “TOCK” as interpreted through benefits of 14nm transistors. the Intel Tick-Tock model, hence it will replace the Skylake platform utilizing the benefits of the same The latest version of Intel’s server processors is processor architecture on a smaller 10nm node. Haswell, which was developed on a 22-nanometer process and is the successor to Ivy Bridge. Intel has a “tick-tock” strategy – an innovation cadence in microprocessor manufacturing and microarchitecture with new advancements every other year.

Intel Mainstream Platforms Comparison Chart

Intel Ivy Bridge Intel Haswell Intel Broadwell Intel Skylake Intel Cannonlake Platform Platform Platform Platform Platform Processor Ivy Bridge Haswell Broadwell Skylake Cannonlake Architecture Processor Process 22nm 22nm 14nm 14nm 10nm Processors Cores 4 4 4 4 TBA (Max) 7-Series “Panther 8-Series “Lynx 9-Series “Wild Cat 100-Series 200-Series “Union Platform Chipset Point” Point” Point” “Sunrise Point” Point” Platform Socket LG A 1155 LG A 1150 LG A 1150 LG A 1151 TBA Memory Support DDR3 DDR3 DDR3 DDR4 / DDR3 DDR4 Thunderbolt Yes Yes Yes Yes “Alpine Ridge” Yes Launch 2012 2013-2014 2015 2015 2016

arrow.com | 800 544 7674 10 Selecting a Processor

Intel provides guidance on selecting the proper processor based upon workload in the Intel Xeon Processor-Based Selection Guide. View an explanation of Intel’s processor naming conventions in the illustration on the right. For expanded details, see About Intel Processor Numbers.

Intel provides guidance on selecting the proper processor based upon workload in the Intel Xeon Processor-Based Selection Guide. Also find an explanation of Intel’s processor naming conventions is contained in the illustration below. About Intel Processor Numbers provides expanded details Intel Atom Processor

The Intel Atom is a line of ultra-low-voltage microprocessors. The current version of these processors uses the Silvermont microarchitecture. The family of processors designed for use in servers is the 64-bit Avoton family, which uses a 22nm manufacturing process.

The brand names for these processors are: -- Two core model: C2350

-- Four core models: C2550 and C2530

-- Eight-core models: C2750 and C2730.

The Atom also has families of processors designed and targeted for smartphones (Merrifield, Moorefield), tablets, netbooks, hybrid devices (Bay Trail), and network and communication infrastructure (Rangeley).

11 More Intel Inside

In addition to the processors, Intel produces a line of Solid State Drives (SSDs) to provide enterprise SSDs to data centers for extreme data throughput. Intel’s Data Center SSD Products can provide SSD capacities up to 2.0TB. The Intel Solid State Drive Data Center Family for PCIe Brief provides additional information. Also see a summary of the Intel Data Center SSD product lines in the chart below:

Sequential Random 4KB Intel Data Center Capacity (GB) Read/Write Read/Write (max Form Factor Interface Product (max MB/s) IOPS) 400 /800 / 1.6TB 460,000 / 2.5-inch and DC P3700 Series 2,800 / 2,000 PCI Express Gen 3 / 2.0TB 175,000 HHHL AIC 400 / 800/ 1.2TB 450,000 / 2.5-inch and DC P3600 Series 2,600 / 1,700 PCI Express Gen 3 /1.6TB /2.0TB 56,000 HHHL AIC 100 /200 /400 DC S3700 Series 500 / 460 75,000 / 36,000 2.5 and 1.8 inch SATA 6 Gb/s /800 80 / 120 / 160 / 240 / 300 /340 2.5 and 1.8 inch DC S3500 Series /400 /480 600 500 / 460 75,000 / 15,500 SATA 6 Gb/s M.2 / 800 / 1.2TB / 1.6TB

In addition, Intel provides high bandwidth I/O adapters. These adapters use the latest technology to provide enterprise class communications for the data center. Intel Ethernet Converged Network Adapters and 10 Gigabit Server Adapters portal provides product information and additional details.

arrow.com | 800 544 7674 12 Competitive Landscape

DELL® IBM®

Dell’s PowerEdge Servers are offered as PowerEdge IBM offers their IBM Power Systems line of servers towers, PowerEdge Racks and Dell Shared infrastructure. as a solution for large enterprises. The latest systems Dell OpenManage portfolio provides system management are designed with their POWER8™ architecture capabilities. Dell boasts their PowerEdge VRTX is the first whose designs are available for licensing under the IT integrated IT solution designed specifically for remote- OpenPOWER Foundation. POWER8 is designed to office. Dell’s press release“Dell Introduces its Most be a massively multithreaded chip with each of its Advanced Server Portfolio to Address Broadest Range cores capable of handling eight hardware threads of Business Computing Needs” from September 8, 2014, simultaneously, for a total of 96 threads executed provides the latest update on Dell’s portfolio. simultaneously on a 12-core chip. For external communication, POWER8 uses the CAPI port (Coherent Accelerator Processor Interface), which is layered on top HP® of PCI Express 3.0. POWER8 comes in two variants, one 6-core and one 12-core version, each fabricated using a HP x86 servers comprise the ProLiant product line. The HP 22nm process. ProLiant BL Series are blade solutions; the HP ProLiant ML Series are tower servers; and the HP ProLiant DL Series are rack servers. HP also offers the HP ProLiant SL Series, Apollo Systems, MoonShot System, and HP Clustered Platforms as scalable systems solutions.

HP’s ProLiant Gen9 technology is designed to augment HP’s x86 solutions by providing integrated lifecycle management, dynamic workload acceleration, automated energy optimization, and intuitive system architecture and design.

13 IBM Power Systems are the primary non-x86 based competitor to HP’s x86 servers.

x86 Servers V.S. POWER Architectures

>> Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) is a technique >> Organizations have also standardized on Windows for their for improving overall efficiency by providing multiple servers. IBM Power Systems only support their proprietary independent threads of execution to better utilize AIX operating environment along with Red Hat, SUSI, and resources provided by processor architectures. Intel refers Ubuntu Linux. IBM no longer offers a product that runs to this feature as hyper-threading and multithreading by Windows with the sale of their System x brand to Lenovo. other vendors. Intel Xeon processors offer two threads per core. IBM Power 7 processors provide four threads per >> When compared to IBM’s Power systems dedicated to core, while the IBM POWER8 processors provide eight Linux, HP ProLiant servers offer more internal storage. threads per core. Applications must be written to take advantage of this feature. In a competitive situation when matching processor throughput with IBM Power systems, >> Generally, IBM Power-based Linux systems will have multiple Xeon processor may need to be configured to a higher cost of ownership (hardware and software match threading throughput. acquisition costs along with any services charges incurred) over three years when compared to HP ProLiant servers. A calculation based upon relevant configurations and >> Many organizations have adopted a standard for server individual sales situations should be completed to verify virtualization. Intel x86-based systems support VMware this assertion. vSphere, Citrix Xen Server, Microsoft Hyper-V, and KVM for virtualization. IBM Power-based systems support only the IBM proprietary PowerVM and a version of KVM named PowerKVM for virtualization. Many customers have standardized around VSphere, Xen, or Hyper-V, meaning they must adopt a new virtualization technology in order to adopt IBM Power system.

arrow.com | 800 544 7674 14 Systems Based on POWER8 Technology

Form Max Model Processors Max Cores Operating System Virtualization Factor Memory S812L 2U rack 1 512GB Red Hat Linux™ 12 IBM PowerVM™, IBM , SUSE™ Linux, PowerVM Linux Ubuntu™ Linux PowerKVM® S814 4U rack 1 512GB IBM AIX™, IBM i™, 8 IBM PowerVM, IBM Red Hat Linux , SUSE PowerVM Linux, Linux, Ubuntu Linux PowerKVM S822 2U rack 2 1024GB IBM AIX, IBM i, Red 20 IBM PowerVM™, IBM Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, PowerVM Linux Ubuntu Linux PowerKVM® S822L 2U rack 2 1024GB Red Hat Linux, SUSE 24 IBM PowerVM Linux Linux, Ubuntu Linux PowerKVM S824 4U rack 2 1024GB IBM AIX, IBM i, Red 24 IBM PowerVM Linux Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, PowerKVM Ubuntu Linux

S824L 4U rack 2 1024GB Red Hat Linux, SUSE 24 IBM PowerVM, IBM Linux, Ubuntu Linux PowerVM Linux, PowerKVM E870 7U rack 8 (4 per 2TB or 4TB IBM AIX, IBM i, Red 40 or 80 IBM PowerVM, IBM node) Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, PowerVM Linux, 1 or 2 Nodes Ubuntu Linux PowerKVM E880 7U rack 16 (4 per 4TB, 8TB or IBM AIX, IBM i, Red 48, 96 or IBM PowerVM, IBM node) 16TB Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, 192 PowerVM Linux, 1,2,4 Node Ubuntu Linux PowerKVM

15 FUJITSU®

Fujitsu provides a diverse product line with x86, UNIX and Mainframe servers. Fujitsu SPARC servers use the SPACRC64™ processor and run the Oracle Solaris (UNIX) operation system. Fujitsu’s x86- based lineup includes the PRIMERGY Blade Servers, PRIMERGY rack server, PRIMERGY tower servers, and PRIMERGY Scale-out servers. In addition, Fujitsu has the high-end x86-based PRIMEQUEST systems designed for business-critical and mission-critical computing.

Oracle®

Oracle provides a portfolio of servers that include SPARC and x86 systems. Oracle SPARC servers run the UNIX-based Oracle Solaris operating systems. Sun Server X4 series are rack-mounted servers. The Sun Blade x86 Modules provide a blade solution; and the Sun Netra x86 Servers provide carrier-grade servers for communications deployments.

Cisco®

Cisco focus their offerings around blade, rack and integrated systems. Cisco Unified Computing Products (UCS) offerings include Cisco UCS Invicta , Cisco USC M-Series Modular Servers, Cisco USC B-Series Blade Servers, and Cisco USC C-Series rack servers. System management is provided by Cisco UCS Manager, Cisco UCS Central and Cisco UCS Director.

arrow.com | 800 544 7674 16 What Sellers Need to Know

Arrow has other “What Sellers Need to Know” guides covering current System x topics, including: What Sellers Need to Know IBM X6 Architecture

>> What Sellers Need to Know SAP HANA and IBM System x

>> What Sellers Need to Know IBM System x Solutions for One and Two Socket Servers

>> What Sellers Need to Know IBM Flex and PureFlex

>> What Sellers Need to Know IBM x3850 X5

Lenovo SELECT Program Links Selling Resources

-- Lenovo Value Proposition to Channel Partners -- Lenovo Deal Registration -- Power consumption is an important factor when considering a new -- Lenovo Channel Programs Overview Brochure -- Lenovo New Customer Promotion server purchase. The following are -- Lenovo Select Partner Program Portal -- Lenovo Product and the power calculators for major Solution Programs server vendors: -- Lenovo Partner Portal Sign-In Link -- ETERNUS Trade-Out Program -- Cisco – UCS Power Calculator -- Lenovo Partner Program Matrix -- PRIMERGY Trade-Out Program -- Dell – Data Center -- Lenovo SmartInvest MDF Program for SELECT Capacity Planner Expert Channel Partners -- ENTERUS Education Discount Program -- HP BladeSystem Sizer

-- ENTERUS Discount Program -- HP ProLiant Power Calculators

-- Intel Product Information and -- HP Power Advisor Training Resources Comparison Tool – This tool -- IBM System Energy Estimator for includes detailed product -- Lenovo Demo and Evaluation Programs Power Systems information on Intel processors, -- Lenovo International Online Learning chipsets, boards, kits, servers, -- IBM System x Power Calculator Application (FiOLA) solid state drives, networking, -- Oracle Sun Power Calculators I/O, and software that includes a -- Fact Sheet Lenovo SELECT Partner Program reference of products by Training and Certification code names.

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