Lenovo plans to offer the DX8200D as a pre-integrated appliance, enabling data centers to quickly deploy a turnkey solution that leverages the capabilities of existing SAN arrays. It can optimize heterogeneous storage infrastructures, allowing them to scale as needs grow and easily replace older storage arrays. Through its centralized interface, the DX8200D delivers data protection, replication, deduplication, compression, and other enterprise-grade storage capabilities at a significantly lower price than traditional SAN arrays.
Built on the Lenovo x3650 M5 server, the DX8200D is designed to deliver best-in-class response time, availability, and utilization. Lenovo will conduct testing with devices running on DataCore to reduce deployment risks and maximize time to value. With predictive failure analysis and a next-generation diagnostic dashboard for enhanced serviceability, the x3650 M5 server helps minimize downtime and costs.
The Lenovo DX8200D takes isolated storage devices, sometimes distributed across different locations, and places them under a common set of enterprise services. It pools their collective resources, managing them centrally and uniformly despite differences and incompatibilities between manufacturers, models, and generations of equipment.
Finally, the Lenovo DX8200D can centrally automate discovery, inventory tracking, real-time monitoring, configuration, fault detection, and alert handling throughout the entire lifecycle with Lenovo's XClarity software.
