What is it?
Lenovo’s ThinkSystem DG Series all-flash unified storage arrays offer high-performance storage solutions that enable customers to effectively diminish data center expenses with its eco-friendly and highly efficient alternative to hybrid flash and HDD systems.
Based on cutting-edge NVMe flash technology, Lenovo ThinkSystem DG Series systems offer an exceptional solution for companies of all sizes requiring significant storage capacity and performance within a minimal physical footprint and at an extremely competitive price point.
With its innovative hybrid cloud IT infrastructure, your customers will be empowered to streamline and unify data management simply and seamlessly across both cloud and on-premises environments, which will enable them to meet their business requirements and attain a competitive advantage. With the implementation of Lenovo ThinkSystem DG Series systems, businesses can now optimize performance and minimize overall storage expenses.
Why should you care?
Lenovo ThinkSystem DG enterprise storage arrays scored highest overall in the CRN 2023 Products of the Year category and had the highest scores in technology, revenue, and meeting customer needs.
In addition to being cloud-ready, ThinkSystem’s quad-level cell (QLC)-based storage solutions deliver up to 6x the performance of legacy HDD-based storage systems at about half the cost with up to 25% power savings and built-in ransomware protection.
Benefits of the ThinkSystem DG Series
- Reduces rack space and achieves better energy efficiency compared to traditional flash arrays
- Shrinks costs with up to 4:1 storage efficiency
- Provides unified data management support across different storage media and protocols whether on-premises or in the cloud
- Delivers industry-leading security and anti-ransomware protection
How does it work?
Simplified data management and monitoring
Harnessing the unrivaled capabilities of the DG Series system’s unified data management software, Lenovo’s ThinkSystem offers unparalleled flexibility, allowing customers the ability to move workloads across SAN (block), NAS (file), and object storage, as well as use their data on-premises or in the cloud—all of which embody a true hybrid model.
The Lenovo ThinkSystem DG Series system also includes a comprehensive set of advanced storage management features in the ONTAP software, including:
- SSD read cache
- Hybrid storage pools
- Snapshots
- Volume copy
- Quality of service
- Think provisioning
- Compression
- Deduplication
- Encryption
- Disk-based backup
- Application and virtual machine-aware backup
- Quick data recovery
- Closeting
- Synchronous replication and asynchronous replication
Additionally, ThinkSystem Intelligent Monitoring is an intuitive digital advisor that monitors capacity usage and helps to uncover potential risk factors before they affect a business. It identifies trends to proactively optimize protection, efficiencies, and upgrades through a single web-accessible platform. Intelligent capacity and performance monitoring will allow businesses to stay ahead of the curve and plan accordingly to meet their growth needs.
Integrated data protection
Lenovo ThinkSystem DG Series software provides a comprehensive range of data protection features to fortify the security of sensitive data across on-premises, cloud, and in transit. In addition, the cutting-edge anti-ransomware protection ensures comprehensive safeguarding of critical data, both proactively and during post-attack recovery, mitigating the risk of potentially devastating financial ramifications.
With Lenovo ThinkSystem DG Series system software, businesses can achieve uninterrupted data availability with zero data loss and downtime. Entire systems can be safeguarded with synchronous replication, ensuring comprehensive protection. Furthermore, the software offers a flexible and cost-effective solution for business continuity by enabling highly granular replication of specifically selected critical data, enhancing data resilience strategies.
Security features include:
- Reduced exposure to ransomware attacks: Autonomous ransomware protection can be deployed immediately to protect copies of data on secondary storage with no need to retrain ARP.
- Tamper-proof snapshots: Snapshot copies can't be deleted or changed by ransomware attackers or rogue administrators, so they're available even after an attack.
- One-click defense against malicious files: Instantly enable automatic blocking of known malicious files, and the FPolicy feature in ONTAP protects against 3,000 common ransomware extensions that are used for typical attacks.
- Hardened security with Zero Trust architecture: Immutable, tamper-proof logging, advanced multi-factor authentication and enhanced auditing are included in the software.
Differentiation in the market
The Lenovo ThinkSystem DG Series offers a comprehensive solution for efficient all-flash data consolidation, providing organizations with the capability to streamline their data storage effectively. With support for unified file, block, and object storage, the DG Series ensures versatility to accommodate diverse data types and workloads seamlessly. In addition, the series delivers 6x faster performance and up to 50% less cost vs HDD arrays , allowing businesses to benefit from enhanced speeds and reliability without sacrificing affordability.
How to position and sell the ThinkSystem DG Series
If your customers are ready to modernize their data center, be sure to tell them about Lenovo ThinkSystem DG Series and how it is a capacity flash solution that revolutionizes sustainability, scalability, and security. With the DG Series, businesses can now embrace the benefits of flash performance at a cost comparable to traditional disk solutions, while occupying only a fraction of the physical space.
Be sure to also mention that the DG Series incorporates robust security features, enabling secure hybrid cloud management to safeguard sensitive data across diverse environments. And with its integrated ransomware protection, data security is further enhanced, which provides organizations with peace of mind against evolving threats.
More information
For more information on how Arrow can help build your business with Lenovo’s ThinkSystem DG Series, contact Arrow’s Lenovo sales and technical teams.
To learn more, download the ThinkSystem DG data sheet.
