Lenovo expands AI services and infrastructure portfolio

Lenovo has expanded its Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Advantage programme with new advisory services, industry solutions and platforms.

The company said the expansion is designed to help enterprises build and to operate artificial intelligence systems.

Lenovo's new offerings aim to address a challenge facing businesses as they struggle to achieve return on investment from artificial intelligence initiatives.

Citing its own research from the Global CIO Playbook, Lenovo said two-thirds of organisations have yet to see return on investment from artificial intelligence investments whilst struggling to scale effectively due to training, adoption, and technical gaps.

Meanwhile, artificial intelligence budgets are set to triple to nearly 20 per cent of information technology budgets in 2025, Lenovo said.

Despite rapid adoption of artificial intelligence tools in workplaces, half of employees feel they receive only moderate support for artificial intelligence training, creating a gap that delays return on investment.

Lenovo's new services include artificial intelligence people readiness assessments, persona-based training programmes, and governance frameworks to help organisations embed artificial intelligence into their operations.

"Artificial intelligence adoption demands a clear strategy, trusted expertise, and the right technology mix that can accelerate time to value," Ken Wong, executive vice president and president of Solutions and Services Group at Lenovo, said.

The company has delivered measurable results across various industries, including accelerating an airline's AI-powered digital workplace transformation and increasing operational efficiencies through a three-month advisory programme.

Lenovo has also introduced new validated AI solutions for specific industries, including hospitality systems that boost guest loyalty, workplace safety monitoring that detects hazards in real-time, and retail analytics that provide crowd insights.

New hardware includes the ThinkSystem SR680a V4 system, which features Intel Xeon 6 central processing units and eight NVIDIA Blackwell graphics processing units for enhanced computational performance.

The system is up to 11 times faster with artificial intelligence inferencing on large language models (LLMs) compared to previous generations.

Lenovo also launched a hybrid artificial intelligence platform with IBM's watsonx technologies, as well as an enhanced platform with Cisco that supports faster AI network performance.