Lenovo and EMC partner on storage for SMBs

January 12, 2013

You’re probably familiar with Lenovo and EMC, both more or less household names in the tech industry. Well, now the two have joined forces to form a joint venture, LenovoEMC. Lenovo makesservers, desktops, and laptops. LenovoEMC was originally announced last August as a part of a larger strategic partnership between the two companies. It will make use of business-class products from EMC’s Iomega line to provide co-branded network storage products for small and medium businesses, remote branches, and distributed enterprise scenarios. The Iomega network storage portfolio includes desktop, tower, and rack mount products ranging from diskless up to 48TB of storage. The Iomega (now LenovoEMC) product line includes home office devices like the StorCenter ix2-dl, as well as much more advanced offerings like the StorCenter px12-450r (LenovoEMC might want to consider some simpler, catchier naming). EMC is an industry leader for data storage solutions. LenovoEMC's NAS (network attached storage) solutions include the EMC LifeLine operating system, meant to provide SMBs with tools and features for managing storage without a full-time IT staff to administer it. LenovoEMC will pitch its line of storage options as a perfect match, of course, for Lenovo ThinkServer servers and ThinkStation workstations. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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