Lenovo has announced a significant expansion of its Hybrid AI Advantage™, introducing new advisory and implementation services, industry-specific solutions, and hybrid AI platforms to transform enterprise IT for the AI era. With partnerships from Cisco, IBM, and NVIDIA, Lenovo aims to deliver scalable, high-performance AI infrastructure that drives measurable business outcomes across diverse sectors.
Lenovo expands Hybrid AI Advantage with new services and platforms.
Features partnerships with Cisco, IBM, and NVIDIA for AI infrastructure.
New solutions target hospitality, retail, manufacturing, and workplace safety.
Reports 40% year-over-year increase in global customer adoptions.
AI Adoption Services boost productivity by 31% weekly time savings.
Addresses ROI challenges, with 66% of firms yet to see AI returns.
Lenovo’s Global CIO Playbook reveals that two-thirds of organizations struggle to achieve ROI on AI investments due to scaling, training, and infrastructure gaps. With AI budgets projected to reach 20% of IT spending in 2025, Lenovo’s Hybrid AI Advantage offers a comprehensive framework to modernize IT, delivering efficiency and scalability. The initiative has driven a 40% year-over-year increase in global customer adoptions, reflecting strong enterprise demand.
“AI adoption demands a clear strategy, trusted expertise, and the right technology mix that can accelerate time to value,” said Ken Wong, Executive Vice President and President, Solutions and Services Group, Lenovo. The new Lenovo AI Adoption and Change Management Services address the gap where 50% of employees report inadequate AI training, offering:
AI People Readiness Assessment: Identifies high-impact use cases and enablement strategies.
Persona-Based Training: Tailors programs to employee roles for faster adoption.
Copilot Adoption: Enhances generative AI tool integration with targeted training.
AI Governance: Aligns leadership on responsible AI use and cultural readiness.
These services have delivered results, such as a three-month advisory program that transformed a leading airline’s digital workplace, alongside accelerating medical diagnoses and manufacturing outcomes.
Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage introduces validated, customizable solutions for key industries, leveraging its AI Innovator designs with ISVs:
Hospitality (Centific AI Data Foundry, NVIDIA): Boosts guest loyalty with real-time personalization and operational efficiency.
Workplace Safety (Avathon Visual AI, NVIDIA): Monitors hazards and PPE compliance in real time, automating corrective actions.
Retail & Smart Spaces (WaitTime, Intel): Provides edge AI crowd analytics, increasing guest satisfaction by up to 30%.
Manufacturing (Trifork, NVIDIA): Automates defect detection and model retraining for real-time quality insights.
These solutions bridge the gap between AI ambition and impact, enabling enterprises to scale workflows effectively.
Lenovo’s expanded platforms, built with industry leaders, empower enterprises to operate AI factories across cloud, edge, and on-premises environments:
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR680a V4: Features Intel Xeon 6 CPUs and eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs, delivering 11x faster AI inferencing and 7x computational power.
IBM watsonx Integration: Combines Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 servers with Red Hat OpenShift for rapid generative AI deployment.
Cisco-Powered Platform: Uses Cisco Nexus switches and NVIDIA Spectrum-X for 1.6x faster AI network performance, built on ThinkSystem SR675 V3 with NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 GPUs.
These platforms support greenfield or existing IT setups, accelerating AI deployment with high-performance infrastructure.
“Lenovo is leading hybrid AI with groundbreaking advancements in integrated solutions that are driving industry-wide innovation,” said Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, President, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Lenovo. The Hybrid AI Advantage has achieved a 31% increase in weekly time savings through generative AI frameworks, enhancing productivity across healthcare, finance, and retail. Lenovo’s billion-dollar AI investment underscores its commitment to democratizing AI for enterprises worldwide.
Lenovo’s Hybrid AI Advantage expansion positions it as a leader in enterprise AI transformation, offering end-to-end solutions that address real-world challenges. By combining trusted infrastructure, strategic partnerships, and tailored services, Lenovo enables businesses to unlock AI’s full potential with confidence and agility.
Lenovo is a US$69 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #248 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere.
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