Lenovo Nettop and GDS have reached a strategic cooperation to inject strong momentum into the development of the digital economy era

On May 25, 2021, Lenovo Lingtuo Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Lenovo Lingtuo"), a leading intelligent data management solution and service provider committed to driving Chinese companies to unleash data potential and accelerate digital transformation, and GDS Services Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "GDS"), a leading high-performance data center operator and service provider in China, announced a strategic partnership to carry out strategic cooperation in data center operation services and storage products and solutions. By combining the advantages of both parties in data management product research and development, data center operations and services, they will work together to create a new generation of data management services based on multi-cloud interconnection, a one-stop service that meets the complete end-to-end needs of enterprise-level users, and empower the intelligent transformation and innovation of Chinese enterprises in the digital economy era.

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Lu Daxin, CEO of Lenovo Netcom, said: "As the '14th Five-Year Plan' begins, the digital economy, as a national strategy, has become the core driving force for China's development, and a new chapter has been opened for China's digital economy. It's time to set sail when the wind blows. Lenovo Netcom has always been committed to working with industry partners to create an open and win-win ecosystem. We are very pleased to cooperate with GDS, which has a profound accumulation in data center hosting and management services, and Lenovo Netcom is also very strong in the field of intelligent data management. The strong combination will jointly provide data momentum for the transformation, upgrading and innovative development of Chinese enterprises, and help Chinese enterprises better embark on a new journey of digital economy."

Huang Wei, founder, chairman and CEO of GDS, said: "my country's economy is in a stage of high-quality development, and digital transformation has become a must for enterprises. We are very pleased to join forces with such an excellent partner as Lenovo Netcom. Both parties will leverage their strong strengths and resource advantages to provide customers with a more convenient and friendly experience in deploying hybrid clouds based on GDS's multi-cloud connection environment, bringing more value to end customers. In the future, GDS is willing to work with more partners to jointly build an industrial development ecosystem, promote collaborative innovation in upstream and downstream industries, and enable more companies to enhance their competitiveness in the digital economy era and lead their respective fields."

Under the guidance of the "14th Five-Year Plan", the digital economy will play a pivotal role, and data, as an important cornerstone of the digital economy, has become the core driving force for the development and innovation of Chinese enterprises. As an innovative leader in the field of intelligent data management, Lenovo NetApp is well aware of the huge value that data can bring to enterprises. Through the implementation of a dual-brand strategy, Lenovo NetApp inherits the leading technology genes of Lenovo and NetApp and their strong advantages in technology research and development and innovation, and is guided by the needs of Chinese enterprises to provide Chinese enterprises with one-stop, comprehensive intelligent data management products and solutions. Focusing on the "Data Fabric" strategy, Lenovo NetApp has launched a series of products and solutions covering the entire data cycle, including data storage, management, migration and protection, which are widely used in industries such as medical care, manufacturing, education, government, life sciences, energy, finance and the Internet. Relying on its strong local R&D system and service support system, it helps Chinese companies unleash the potential of data and accelerate intelligent digital transformation.

GDS has 20 years of experience in providing secure and reliable IT infrastructure services, and has deployed data centers in China's core economic regions. As of the end of the first quarter of 2021, GDS has deployed 70 self-built data centers in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta region, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the Southwest, with a total operating area of ​​more than 333,000 square meters. Through this cooperation, GDS will provide enterprise users and partners with complete one-stop solutions in multi-cloud and near-cloud environments by leveraging its advantages in data center layout, rich resources in cloud connectivity, and a complete service ecosystem, giving full play to its capabilities in full life cycle services.

Currently, Lenovo Nettop and GDS are jointly exploring the overall solution in the new generation of IT infrastructure, installing Lenovo Nettop's intelligent data management system on GDS's data platform, relying on Lenovo Nettop's advantages in NAS management, cross-cloud disaster recovery, tiered storage, second-level snapshots, deduplication and compression, and resource pooling data management technology, to jointly create a new enterprise-level high-availability, high-reliability, and cost-effective multi-cloud storage service platform. Provide enterprise users with rich enterprise-level data management functions and hosting environment, and provide SLA guarantee services to reduce the operation and maintenance costs of enterprise users' IT infrastructure.

In the future, Lenovo Nettop and GDS will continue to work together in data center operation services and storage products and solutions. Focusing on their respective main businesses and product services, they will strengthen research and cooperation in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, autonomous driving, IoT and other technical fields, and jointly build a full-cycle green channel for solutions and services for enterprise users. At the same time, the two parties will also establish a shared cooperation mechanism, continuously optimize and innovate their own products, services and technical solutions, and continuously strengthen exchanges and cooperation in upstream and downstream fields of the industry such as data centers and storage products, give full play to their respective resource advantages, embrace changes, build a new generation of IT infrastructure, and continuously help enterprises enhance their competitive advantages in the digital economy era.