OREANDA-NEWS. Lenovo announced an expansion of its ThinkServer®partner solution portfolio with VMware vSphere®with Operations Management™.  The solution is available directly through Lenovo and Lenovo business partners in North America.  Lenovo has fully tested and validated VMware vSphere with Operations Management with ThinkServer®enterprise-grade servers.

“VMware vSphere®with Operations Management™is an industry-leading virtualization and management platform that builds upon ThinkServer quality, performance, openness and value to deliver high service levels in a dynamic virtualized environment,” said Darrel Ward, vice president, Enterprise Product Group.  “ThinkServer deployments with virtualized environments help customers achieve increased uptime, higher capacity utilization, improved performance and simplicity in day to day operation.  This offering supports our strategy to build solutions with best-in-class technology partners.”

VMware vSphere®with Operations Managementoffers a virtualization platform with insight to IT capacity and performance, and is designed to maximize performance and availability of business critical applications at high service levels. According to a recent research report[1], customers who deploy VMware vSphere with Operations Management typically increase their ROI beyond running vSphere alone.

For example:
* 40 percent increase in capacity utilization
* 37 percent increase in consolidation ratios 
* 26 percent decrease in time required for diagnostics and problem resolution.