Lenovo has introduced a comprehensive new suite of IT infrastructure solutions specifically engineered to help Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) effortlessly deploy, scale, and leverage modern IT in the era of AI. The deployment addresses the growing pressure on SMBs to adopt complex technologies and stay competitive, all while operating with limited technical and financial resources.
Lenovo’s new technology and offering are part and parcel of their core strategy, which focuses on an “SMB-first approach”. The new portfolio offers pre-tested and validated bundles of servers, software, and flexible consumption models. These solutions are designed to deliver enterprise-grade performance and reliability without the traditional complexity, overhead, or need for specialised teams. These solutions are aimed at removing traditional barriers of complexity and expense, accelerating innovation and operational efficiency from day one.
AI-Ready Infrastructure in a Box
Lenovo is simplifying IT modernisation by packaging proven designs into outcome-focused bundles, ensuring businesses move faster from decision to deployment. These solutions feature guided setup and built-in security, preparing organisations for the AI-powered workplace.
Business Ready Infrastructure in a Box
This solution is designed for businesses looking to simplify and scale their virtualization infrastructure confidently. It leverages robust Hyper-V Ready Node solutions built on the highly reliable Lenovo ThinkSystem SR635 V3 or the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 V4 servers. The crucial practical benefit is that the bundles are pre-validated with Windows Server 2025 Hyper-V and pre-imaged with the Windows Admin Console enabled. This eliminates the guesswork, reducing deployment time from potential weeks to mere hours, while allowing SMBs to run multiple workloads on fewer physical servers, thereby maximising resource efficiency.
AI Edge-Ready Node
For modern applications that need to run wherever business happens—whether in retail, manufacturing, or logistics—Lenovo introduced the AI Edge-Ready Node. This cost-effective solution utilises the Lenovo ThinkEdge SE100, which is powered by Scale Computing HyperCore. This pairing provides lightweight, on-demand edge deployments, making enterprise-grade edge computing easy to adopt and manage for smaller, often remote, teams.
Business Protection in a Box
Data protection is non-negotiable, and the Business Protection in a Box solution is tailored to safeguard critical workloads against failure and ransomware. Configurations include the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 V3, capable of supporting up to 55 Virtual Machines (VMs), or the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 V3 combined with ThinkSystem Storage Arrays, which can support up to 140 VMs. This robust resilience across both compute and storage layers ensures business continuity, a vital feature for SMBs where downtime can be crippling.
Simplified Management and Integrated Security
To streamline the day-to-day experience, Lenovo provides businesses with a single, intuitive platform for managing their infrastructure.
The core management solution is Lenovo XClarity One, a protected cloud portal that provides a consolidated and easily managed experience from set-up to daily operations. This portal delivers AI-driven visibility, control, and preventative maintenance to minimize system downtime and cut operating costs. XClarity One leverages predictive failure analytics to proactively detect hardware issues, often knowing what a business needs before it even needs it.
Furthermore, Lenovo integrates Veeam for robust data protection against ransomware and system failures. This integration enables near-instant recovery, allowing SMBs to restore critical operations within minutes without requiring a large, specialized IT staff for recovery. Beyond protection, Lenovo offers validated AI configurations that provide a proven roadmap, simplifying AI adoption for use cases ranging from real-time threat detection to advanced customer insights that foster revenue growth.
Flexible IT Consumption Without the Extra Costs
Recognizing the capital expenditure challenges faced by SMBs, Lenovo is transforming IT consumption with TruScale Infrastructure as-a-Service (IaaS). TruScale gives businesses the flexibility of leasing, subscriptions, and consumption-based pricing, allowing them to pay only for the resources they utilize and scale services precisely to their requirements.
This model helps SMBs avoid large upfront spending and translates capital expenditure (CapEx) into predictable operational expenses (OpEx). Customers leveraging TruScale report up to 30% faster rollouts, significantly accelerating their time to productivity. This was demonstrably true for Malaysian firm Microtree Sdn Bhd (M3), which used TruScale to expand its service offerings and quickly unlock growth with SMBs by avoiding large upfront costs. By providing AI-ready, enterprise-grade technology that is flexible, secure, and easy to adopt, Lenovo is enabling SMBs to compete and grow with confidence in today’s AI-driven era.
