Lenovo has announced the expansion of the Lenovo ThinkEdge portfolio with the introduction of the new ThinkEdge SE450 server, delivering an artificial intelligence (AI) platform.
“To better address challenges and capture competitive advantage from today’s Smart Normal, businesses must be able to harness real-time AI insights directly at the edge-sites. With speed and agility being top-of-mind, we are developing powerful, secure, and flexible solutions that reduce response time to market and increase value to customers,” said Sumir Bhatia, President – APAC, Lenovo ISG. “We have designed the ThinkEdge SE450 server to minimise business complexities and enhance compute power in remote locations with a wide variety of workloads. Whether it is real-time patient monitoring, diagnoses, in healthcare, or efficient traffic management systems in smart cities, or predictive maintenance on the manufacturing line, we are delivering on our promise of AI at the edge”.
Gartner estimates 75 percent of enterprise-generated data will be processed at the edge by 2025 and 80 percent of enterprise IoT projects will incorporate AI by 2022.
“Expanding our cloud to on-premise enables faster data processing while adding resiliency, performance and enhanced user experiences. As an early testing partner, our current deployment of Lenovo’s ThinkEdge SE450 server is hosting a 5G network delivered on edge sites and introducing new edge applications to enterprises,” said Khaled Al Suwaidi, Vice President Fixed and Mobile Core at Etisalat. “It gives us a compact, ruggedise platform with the necessary performance to host our telecom infrastructure and deliver applications, such as e-learning, to users.”
Designed to stretch the limitations of server locations, Lenovo’s ThinkEdge SE450 delivers real-time insights with enhanced compute power and flexible deployment capabilities that can support multiple AI workloads.
The GPU-rich server is built to meet the requirements of vertically specific edge environments, with a ruggedised design that withstands a wider operating temperature, as well as high dust, shock and vibration for harsh settings. As one of the first NVIDIA-Certified Edge systems, Lenovo’s ThinkEdge SE450 leverages NVIDIA GPUs for enterprise and industrial AI at the edge applications.
The ThinkEdge portfolio provides a variety of connectivity and security options, including a new locking bezel to help prevent unauthorised access and robust security features to better protect data.
The ThinkEdge SE450 is built on the latest 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processor with Intel Deep Learning Boost technologies. It has been verified by Intel as an Intel® Select Solution for vRAN.
“Our collaboration with Lenovo helps enterprises across many sectors drive business value through network transformation and edge computing,” said Jeni Panhorst, Vice President and General Manager of the Network & Edge Platforms Division at Intel. “Resilient and flexible edge servers built with 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors provide enhanced performance enabling the delivery of innovative AI-driven services where customers will expect them.”
Edge site locations are often unmanned and hard to reach; therefore, the ThinkEdge SE450 is automatically installed and managed with Lenovo Open Cloud Automation (LOC-A) and easily configured with Lenovo XClarity Orchestrator software.
