Further integration of LANDesk solutions with Lenovo technologies will help customers reduce IT costs by secure automation of systems management functions through a single console included with Lenovo systems.

“Having these two vendors integrate their solutions provides me with the best possible tools to deliver value to my internal customers at SWBC,” said Gregory Lawler, CIO, Southwest Business Corporation. “I can easily demonstrate the time and money saved in a number of areas. For example, if we have 300 machines that need an update for one of our applications, we can now deliver that update in minutes. If we had to install this update manually, it would take a team of technicians several days.”

All Lenovo notebook and desktop PC products manufactured since January 2002 will be able to receive the Lenovo ThinkManagement Console for no additional charge. All Lenovo clients that support Lenovo ThinkVantage Technologies will support this new console. Additionally, versions that support non-Lenovo clients will be made available for a fee.

Customers using Intel vPro technologies will receive additional benefits for VPro enablement and manageability. When combined with this LANDesk and Lenovo solution, Intel vPro technology helps customers reduce desk-side visits by enabling IT organizations to monitor, diagnose, and repair PCs regardless of operating system or power state.

“Lenovo and LANDesk have made Intel vPro an important component in their offerings, which has helped change the face of IT by providing enhanced security, lower costs and shorter repair times beginning with the first systems implemented,” said Gregory Bryant, vice president, Business Client Group, and general manager, Digital Office Platform Division of Intel Corporation. “In the end, IT is no longer saddled with just keeping its computer fleet running, but can now turn to strategic matters.”

Through the Lenovo ThinkManagement Console, IT administrators can quickly identify and contain security threats, heal systems, and use continuous presence-checking to guard against unsolicited agent tampering.

“Our strategic relationship with Lenovo continues to yield the most proactive management solutions possible for our customers,” said Steve Daly, general manager, LANDesk. “The Lenovo ThinkManagement Console will enable IT organizations to quickly reduce costs, while helping to achieve positive top-line and bottom-line business results. Our joint solutions will enable customers to effectively automate lifecycle, systems and service management functions across laptops, desktops, servers and mobile devices from a single management console.”

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“Virtualized architectures are gaining momentum in China as a better way to run datacenters,” said Diane Greene, president and chief executive officer of VMware. “Through our relationship with Lenovo and its world-class brand, we are making VMware virtualization more broadly available to the Chinese market. With VMware virtualization, Lenovo customers can quickly experience its significant business benefits including reducing operating and capital costs by as much as 50 percent, delivering applications more quickly and reliably in virtual machines, and improving security across the datacenter and on the desktop.”

“Together with VMware, our customers will have access to a versatile technology that is helping to transform IT in China and around the globe,” said William J. Ameilio, president and chief executive officer of Lenovo. “Coupling Lenovo’s leading server products with VMware’s broad range of award-winning virtualization solutions will help customers as they come to terms with the rapid datacenter growth taking place in businesses throughout China.”

Customers can now purchase Lenovo servers pre-installed with VMware’s market-leading datacenter virtualization and management platform, VMware Infrastructure 3, provided with full support from Lenovo. VMware Infrastructure 3 enables automatic load balancing, business continuity and power management and the ability to move a virtual machine across physical machines to minimize service interruption. VMware Infrastructure 3 is also compatible with VMware’s desktop virtualization and management solutions.

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