Can the Lenovo-EMC Tie Up the Storage Market?
August 7, 2012
An interesting new partnership just joined the ranks of teams created in 2012. This one may have the potential to impact the industry with their complimentary companies. Techworld’s article “Lenovo and EMC join Forces on Storage, Servers” talks about the agreements made and what is on the table for the future.
The duo already has their wheels turning with production plans:
“As part of the alliance, the companies have formed a server technology development program meant to improve Lenovo’s x86 servers, which will be embedded into select EMC storage systems over time. Lenovo will also manufacture and resell EMC’s networked storage products to customers in China, and eventually other markets.”
“Under the partnership, Lenovo and EMC are also establishing a joint venture to sell network-attached storage (NAS) systems to small and medium businesses.”
Lenovo is well on their way to becoming the world’s top PC vendor this year and already dominates the market in China. However, EMC is the global top vendor for external disk and open networked disk storage systems. The combination has the potential to rock the market if they play their cards right.
In the competitive market of today a partnership like this can flourish, or one can falter. This partnership has the potential to dominate, but what happens if Lenovo brings out its own line of storage hardware tricked up with open source search functionality? We are confident EMC has this well in hand.
Jennifer Shockley, August 7, 2012
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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