The backdrop for private equity exits is turning more favorable — and a Federal Reserve rate cut could give dealmaking activity more momentum. Investors are firmly focused on the Fed’s rate-setting Federal Open Market Committee, which is predicted to lower borrowing costs by a quarter percentage point at its latest meeting on Wednesday, bringing the benchmark rate to between 3.5% and 3.75%. A decision is due at around 2 pm ET. Michael Bruun, global co-head of private equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, said a lower overall cost of capital is one of several factors — along with the reduction of credit spreads, lower volatility, and a stabilization of valuation — which are shaping a better outlook for private equity. A third straight cut from the Fed would reinforce the downward trend in financing costs, potentially enabling greater use of leverage among private equity shops and strengthening the nascent pick-up in dealmaking in both corporate M & A and public market exits. “We have a very constructive outlook for private equity now and into 2026. If you look at global M & A right now, we are up almost 40% year-to-date,” Bruun told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Wednesday, pointing to an acceleration in the second half as volatility has receded. “We are absolutely on an up right now in private equity,” he added. The end of zero interest rates in 2022 brought IPOs and M & A activity — a key exit strategy for the private equity sector — to an abrupt halt . But a fresh rate cut on Wednesday could lift such exit prospects, according to Bruun. “We have to accept that the overall balance between public and private markets has shifted over the past few years, and there’s a lot more opportunities to stay private for longer,” Bruun said, adding that equity markets have become much more selective around public debuts. “Having said that, it does feel like a more constructive environment for public markets. Companies with large intrinsic value, companies that are strategic in their sectors, are still receiving a lot of interest, and as rates come down, we see an opening of the IPO market,” he added. He continued: “We remain constructive on the IPO market as an exit route, but we think it will represent a smaller portion of the overall exit formation versus a decade ago.” Broad-based opportunities Bruun said that corporates were driving an increasingly larger share of private equity exits, where companies are becoming “very deliberate” in their dealmaking, shedding non-core assets which open attractive carve-out opportunities for private equity companies, while also pursuing larger, strategic transactions. He said there was a “very large backlog of unharvested assets”, including in Europe, where there is $1 trillion of assets with a lifetime of more than six years, “all of which needs to get transacted over the coming quarters.” That pipeline, he said, supports “a benign outlook in terms of deal formation… We think that that backlog is really starting to move.” A more constructive exit environment could help further unlock distributions for private equity limited partners — and another Fed rate cut could ultimately provide an added sweetener for this improved backdrop. Bruun gave financial services, healthcare, technology and business services as examples of sectors benefiting from secular growth trends. Many of these areas, he added, are “in flux right now and where there is good value to be made.” Regarding AI, he said there were opportunities beyond large language models, such as AI implementation among corporates. “Are you an IT services company that can help other companies in implementing AI? Are you an energy company, where you are helping building out the energy infrastructure? These thematics are very broad-based,” he said.
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Paramount’s hostile takeover bid is one of the largest
Paramount and Netflix are in a vicious tug-of-war over Warner Bros. Discovery.
On one side of the rope: the suitor WBD’s board signed off on, Netflix, which announced a $72 billion deal last week. On the other side, the suitor the board turned down, Paramount, which is resorting to a tactic known as a hostile takeover.
A hostile takeover occurs when a company attempts to acquire another by going around the takeover target’s management and making an appeal directly to shareholders.
While friendly, mutually agreed upon acquisitions between two companies tend to have a higher success rate, hostile takeover bids, though riskier and often costly, can prove successful, too.
If Paramount’s $30-per-share, all-cash bid worth $108 billion (including debt) for complete ownership of WBD succeeds, it’ll be the fourth-largest hostile takeover to be completed over the past 20 years, according to data Dealogic shared with CNN. And oftentimes the initial hostile takeover bid a company announces goes even higher.
As it stands, though, here are the top five largest hostile takeover bids that have succeeded. All figures exclude debt:
In 1999, UK-based telecom company Vodafone Airtouch (now Vodafone Group) first presented the board of German telecom company Mannesmann with an all-stock acquisition, which Mannesmann’s board rejected.
Vodafone proceeded with a hostile takeover bid to buy Mannesmann shares that was finalized in 2000 and valued at $171 billion.
Anheuser-Busch, the victim of a successful hostile takeover bid by InBev, formed a company that later became known as Anheuser-Busch InBev. That company then launched a hostile takeover bid for SABMiller in 2015 after it failed repeatedly at friendly takeover attempts. The negotiated deal settled at $122 billion in 2016.
Pfizer succeeded with its hostile takeover bid of Warner-Lambert, a pharmaceutical company known for making the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor, in 2000. The all-stock deal closed at $110 billion that year.
ABN Amro by Royal Bank of Scotland Group
Royal Bank of Scotland, seeking to prevent a friendly takeover of Dutch bank ABN Amro by Barclays, got two other banks to collectively make a hostile bid that would divide ABM among all three. It was eventually finalized in 2007 in a deal valued at $96 billion. The deal, however, helped contribute to RBS’ demise.
Sanofi-Synthelabo’s surprise hostile takeover bid of Aventis, a Franco-German pharmaceutical company, was valued at $73 billion in 2004.
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CrowdStrike Scores 100% Detection & Protection in 2025 MITRE ATT&CK Test
CrowdStrike embraces MITRE’s first real-world cross-domain attack simulation, delivering perfect scores with no false positives
AUSTIN, Texas – December 10, 2025 – CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) delivered 100% detection and 100% protection with no false positives in the 2025 MITRE ATT&CK® Enterprise Evaluations – the most technically demanding in the program’s history. Through MITRE’s first-ever cloud adversary emulation with attacks that moved across identity, endpoint, and cloud, the unified Falcon® platform demonstrated the architectural advantage required to stop modern cross-domain threats.
“These were the most challenging MITRE evaluations yet, and we participated to give the industry a transparent view into which platforms have the architecture to stop real-world threats,” said Michael Sentonas, president of CrowdStrike. “Delivering 100% detection, 100% protection, and no false positives across these highly sophisticated, cross-domain attacks is a major achievement. The results show the power of the unified Falcon platform – complete protection with a first-class analyst experience that eliminates noise and complexity while accelerating response.”
Testing Unified Platform Capabilities Against Real-World, Cross-Domain Attacks
This year’s MITRE evaluations expanded beyond endpoint techniques to assess true platform capabilities in defending against real-world attacks that move across identity, endpoint, and cloud. As the leading unified security platform participating in this year’s evaluations, CrowdStrike achieved 100% detection and 100% protection with no false positives across the full attack sequence.In the most demanding evaluations to date, MITRE exercised full cross-domain tradecraft, effectively testing the strength of the underlying platform architecture – not just its detections. To execute this expanded scope, MITRE emulated real-world attacks from Chinese state-sponsored espionage group MUSTANG PANDA, and eCrime group SCATTERED SPIDER – two adversaries known for their sophistication, stealth, and ability to compromise cloud environments. It also introduced new early-stage techniques to assess whether a platform can detect and contain activity before attackers can establish a foothold or move laterally.
The Falcon platform delivered complete detection and protection at every stage, stopping credential abuse, lateral movement, and cloud exploitation exactly as exercised in MITRE’s scenarios – demonstrating the power of a single, unified platform to stop modern cross-domain attacks.
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- To learn more about how CrowdStrike achieved a perfect detection and protection score, read our blog.
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Reed Smith partner Rob Wilkins named among Lloyd’s List Top 10 Maritime Lawyers 2025 | News
In its profile of Wilkins, Lloyd’s List notes: “After 25 years of giving advice on financings and investment, Rob Wilkins, a partner in its Transportation Industry Group, is widely hailed as one of the leading shipping transactional lawyers of his generation. While his clients do include shipowners, commodity traders, shipmanagers and banks, he is even better known for acting for an impressive roster of private equity and hedge funds.”
Wilkins, the former chair of Reed Smith’s Transportation Industry Group, has also been an integral part of the firm’s leadership for more than ten years. He is recognised for his extensive experience advising on complex financings, investments, restructurings, and high-value maritime transactions.
This accolade follows Reed Smith’s continued recognition for excellence in maritime law. Last year, Antonia Panayides was included in the Top 10 Maritime Lawyers list for her impactful role in addressing some of the industry’s most pressing decarbonisation challenges, particularly as shipping faces evolving environmental and regulatory demands. In 2023, Leigh Hansson was featured for her work on matters involving shipping sanctions, earning her the distinction of being “arguably the best-known name in the specialism.”
Reed Smith has advised the shipping industry for more than a century, offering comprehensive guidance on both contentious and non-contentious issues. The practice includes more than 100 lawyers, among them former master mariners, and operates from major global shipping hubs including London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Houston, New York, Paris, and Athens.
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Benefits of Net 30/60/90 Terms
The net terms on invoices your company receives aren’t just payment deadlines—they directly impact your working capital and vendor relationships.
Paul Kizirian, Executive Director for Treasury Consulting at J.P. Morgan, explains how invoice payment terms work, why accounts payable (AP) automation is key to capturing early payment discounts and shares strategies for optimizing working capital while meeting terms.
Net terms represent the payment timeline within trade credit agreements between vendors and buyers.
They’re commonly expressed as net 30, net 60 or net 90, and give buyers 30, 60 or 90 days, respectively, to submit payment for the net—or full—amount invoiced.
While net 30 is a particularly common invoice payment term, vendors and buyers tailor terms to their operational and cash flow needs.
A vendor that wants to incentivize faster payment may offer an early payment discount. For example, 2/10 net 30 means the buyer receives a 2% discount if they pay within 10 days. Otherwise, the full amount is due in 30 days. The buyer can’t claim the discount if they are slow to process invoices and cannot pay within the 10-day time frame.
Invoice payment terms influence working capital and supplier relationship management.
Shifting from net 30 to net 60 lets buyers hold cash twice as long, extending Days Payable Outstanding (DPO), which provides a direct working capital benefit. But it has the opposite effect on vendors by delaying their receivables, extending their Days Sales Outstanding (DSO). Vendors prefer to minimize DSO within their accounts receivable.
Negotiating terms should include discussing early payment discounts as a strategy that helps buyers and vendors balance their working capital needs.
“If the buyer can consistently capture discounts, the bottom-line savings can be significant. Terms are very important yet often overlooked,” Kizirian said.
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Fed meeting live: Stock markets await rate cut decision, 2026 projections in focus – Reuters
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US labor costs growth moderates in third quarter – Reuters
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SEC Chief Accountant Unveils Ambitious Agenda for Audit Oversight, Standard Setting
At a year-end AICPA conference, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chief Accountant Kurt Hohl outlined an ambitious agenda for accounting and auditing for the coming years, including active oversight of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).
Most notably, the profession can expect changes to the way the PCAOB inspects public company audits and how the board sets standards. If implemented, these changes will represent major shifts in the supervision of auditors.
Such planned efforts come as President Trump’s SEC chair appointee, Paul Atkins, has emphasized the capital formation aspect of the agency’s mission. By contrast, the previous leadership during the Biden administration focused on aggressive rulemaking and enforcement priorities.
Hohl said that his agenda largely stems from changes in the business environment.
PCAOB Audit Inspections
The accounting chief said that the inspection process has largely worked the same way for the last two decades. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 established the PCAOB following accounting scandals at companies like Enron and WorldCom, and board inspections have helped to improve audit quality over the years.
“There’s a change in standards that basically maybe requires the PCAOB to change how they focus on inspecting firms,” Hohl said, referring to the quality management standards adopted by the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) in 2020 which became effective in 2022. In particular, Hohl pointed to IAASB Quality Management Standards (ISQM) 1.
The AICPA’s Auditing Standards Board, which writes auditing standards for private companies, adopted its own quality management standards based on ISQM 1. The AICPA’s goal is to converge with international standards as much as possible.
“So all auditors in the U.S. are essentially following ISQM 1 or some derivation that’s fairly close,” he said.
For public companies in the U.S., the PCAOB last year adopted Quality Control 1000, and firms are preparing to implement the new standard, though the effective date got delayed by one year.
“Maybe there’s an opportunity for the PCAOB to shift the inspection program to focus more on system of quality management. And I think what that will do, in my own personal view, is it will shift the accountability to the leadership of the firm and their systems and processes, and less on individual engagement teams and the partners,” Hohl said at the AICPA Conference on Current SEC and PCAOB Developments in Washington on December 8, 2025.
“There’s a lot of stress in the environment for teams who get inspected,” Hohl explained. “So a shift in focus toward the firm and how they support their engagement teams and the execution of high-quality audits, I think, is probably overdue.”
Moreover, Hohl will look at refreshing the PCAOB’s audit inspection reports.
During his roughly five months as chief accountant, Hohl has reached out to various stakeholders, including audit committee members, to try to better understand how they use inspection reports.
“Is it really a useful mechanism for communicating audit quality outside the firms. And I think there’s a lot of room if you’re going to change the inspection process to focus more on system of quality management that has complications for how the inspection report might read, because there’s a provision in the statute that keeps quality control findings kind of private for a year unless the firms remediate,” Hohl said. “So there’s a lot of opportunity [to add] some contextual information to inspection reports.”
PCAOB Standard-Setting Process
Hohl said that the PCAOB could do something similar to what the accounting standard setter FASB does when it routinely conducts public agenda consultations, asking stakeholders which projects it should work on.
“I think the PCAOB could benefit from that as well,” he said.
In another major shift, Hohl believes that the PCAOB, just as the AICPA is doing, should try to converge with IAASB standards as much as possible, especially as all the major firms use the international auditing standards as the baseline for their audit.
In his view, it will “be beneficial for investors because it will essentially develop a single set of high-quality standards. It will essentially significantly reduce cost and complexity, because if you’re working on a multinational group audit and you’re doing statutory accounts in your local under ISA standards, and you basically are working on as a component for an SEC engagement, you have to basically use a different set of standards, and that adds confusion, costs, and the risk for non-compliance.”
PCAOB Consultation
Just as the SEC’s Office of Chief Accountant (OCA) provides consultation on tricky accounting matters to preparers and auditors before filing financial statements, Hohl said the PCAOB staff can provide consultation on difficult audit issues.
“I think auditors struggle with the same thing: ‘How do I basically apply the auditing standards in a fact pattern that I’m dealing with and try to get answers from the PCAOB staff that they basically can apply before they finish their audit,’ so that they don’t get an inspection finding someplace down the road,” Hohl said.
Auditor Reporting
Auditors provide a lot of disclosures either to the PCAOB or the audit committees. “I would basically like to readjust that to focus on really material items that are relevant to investors,” he said.
Waiting for New Board Members
In the meantime, the first order of business is for the SEC to appoint PCAOB members in the coming weeks. The SEC will replace all or almost all current board members. Board member Christina Ho said she is not seeking her second term. One current member might be kept on for continuity. For example, in prior appointment in late 2021, the SEC replaced all except for Duane DesParte, who briefly served as acting chair and subsequently left when his term ended in October 2023. Thus, it remains to be seen if Acting PCAOB Chair George Botic will go back to being a board member for continuity. Botic succeeded DesParte.
FASB Oversight
Hohl said he regularly talks with FASB Chairman Rich Jones, and he is focused on the timeliness of standard-setting.
The OCA staff has held off on all the crypto issues until Hohl came to the SEC.
“The challenge with that is they don’t fit really neatly into existing accounting standards. So trying to get issues accumulated and talk to the FASB and see whether they can have some mechanism like the reconstituted EITF [emerging issues task force] to take some of these issues up is really important,” he said. “Obviously, our offices can answer these questions, and we have the authority to interpret what the accounting standards are, but I’m very appreciative of the due process, and making sure that we’re careful and thoughtful about how accounting standards are developed and making sure that we work closely with the FASB is a critical element of that.”
Hohl and Jones have started to discuss these crypto issues and will decide whether some of these could be put on the EITF agenda or whether the SEC or FASB should provide guidance in another way.
Cost-Benefit of Standards
The SEC’s top accountant said that he is also “extremely focused on” cost and benefit analysis, which is a major challenge.
“Standard setting is a very difficult task, and you’re trying to basically please the two factions on opposite sides: investors want more information; preparers who are basically focused on compliance costs associated with those new standards,” Hohl said.
Thus, he asked Jones and his team to make sure that the FASB engages in a thoughtful manner to figure out the costs of new disclosure standards because high compliance costs discourage companies from accessing the public market.
Convergence With International Accounting Standards
In terms of accounting convergence, Hohl told Jones that it is important for him to work with the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) in developing international accounting standards and vice versa for the IASB to work with the FASB to learn from each other.
Hohl is focused on getting as much cooperation and convergence as possible as it will reduce investor confusion.
“There’s new costs associated with it. And I think we can basically leverage the work of each body to get developing standards out faster,” Hohl said. “So if the IASB takes a topic first, and the FASB wants to basically take a similar project afterward, they can basically learn from the feedback that that the IASB has gotten, and they think maybe get out standards on a quicker basis. The big challenge here, too, on the cost side, is trying to figure out how to get preparers and those types of stakeholders participating in the standard setting process.”
Auditors, especially big firms and investors voice their views. But some trade associations for preparers come after the fact and tell the FASB that they don’t like the standard and ask the board to change it or ask if they do not have to follow it.
“And we have to figure out a mechanism for companies to participate on the front side of the project to inform the FASB so that we can get fairly high-quality standards at a reasonable cost,” he said.
Auditor Independence Rule Review
The OCA will also review audit firm independence rules as private equity firms are increasingly investing in accounting firms, and both companies and firms are using artificial intelligence (AI) to save money or make various functions more effective and efficient.
Alternative practice structures provide a capital boost to invest in emerging technologies, but they also present risks, especially in the independence of auditors.
“So we’ll be focused on those emerging issues as they develop and decide and figure out what we need to do,” Hohl said.
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Improved Cardiac Remodeling Following TTVR, TTVA
Two recent studies published in JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions focus on improved cardiac remodeling following transcatheter valve replacement (TTVR) and transcatheter valve annuloplasty (TTVA).
The first, a single-center, retrospective, shorter-term TTVR study conducted by Robin Le Ruz, MD, Rebecca T. Hahn, MD, FACC, et al., analyzed 80 TTVR patients (median age, 81; 65% women), 88% of whom had baseline massive/torrential tricuspid regurgitation (TR). The replacements (80% used the EVOQUE system) were a technical success in 90% of patients, and 96% presented with only mild or less TR post implantation.
Results at a median follow up of 40 days showed that TTVR was associated with a reduction in right ventricular (RV) end diastolic volume (EDV; 138.2 mL/m2 to 59.5 mL/m2; p<0.001) and increase in septal curvature and stroke volume, leading to a 65% increase in effective RVEF and 20% increase in RV coupling.
Additionally, this reduction in RVEDV was reciprocal with an increase in left ventricular (LV) EDV (49.6 mL/m2 to 57.9 mL/m2; p=0.001). Greater discordance of these two volumes at baseline, as indicated by an average eccentricity index (aEI) ≥1.25, led to greater reverse remodeling, lower follow-up NT pro-BNP levels and greater symptom improvement.
On the eccentricity index, the study authors write, “Our findings add to the growing literature supporting the use of multi-modality imaging to defining subpopulations of patients that may derive greater benefit from TTVR and by which shared decision-making about device choice could be made.”
In an accompanying editorial comment, Muhammed Gerçek, MD, and Felix Rudolph, MD, add that “Incorporating such imaging biomarkers into next-generation risk models could refine patient selection and predict tolerance to sudden afterload shifts.”
The second, longer-term TTVA study, by Caroline Hasse, MD, et al., followed 156 patients (median age, 79 years; 76% women; 89% with atrial fibrillation) undergoing TTVA for severe TR (27% with massive and 42% with torrential) using the Cardioband system. The procedure was successful in 62% of patients, and 37% still had severe or greater TR at discharge.
Results at a median follow-up of 435 days showed that 71% of patients had a TR reduction ≤2+, and 68% improved in NYHA functional class ≤III (p<0.001 for both) following TTVA. Compared with baseline, right atrial area (36.0 vs. 30.4 cm2), RV length (67.5 vs. 63.7 mm), RV midventricular dimension (42.6 vs. 35.6 mm) and RV basal dimension (47.8 vs. 42.6 mm) were all significantly reduced at follow-up (p<0.001 for all).
Torrential to severe TR reduction still led to remodeling (RV basal diameter, 50 vs. 44 mm; p=0.007) and additionally, right heart remodeling was associated with a decrease in vena contracta width (odds ratio, 1.14; p=0.015).
Hasse, et al., note that in the study, residual TR ≥3 at discharge was associated with an elevated mortality rate compared with TR <3 (26% vs. 13%; p=0.042). “Residual TR therefore must be taken seriously. Close clinical follow-up and the evaluation of further treatment options, such as staged edge-to-edge repair, should be carefully taken into consideration in this vulnerable ‘high-risk-cohort,’” they write.
While “the investigators should be commended for assembling a large cohort of patients treated with a single device and for providing a comprehensive clinical and echocardiographic evaluation,” write David Messika-Zeitoun, MD, PhD; Maurice Enriquez-Sarano, MD, FACC; and Julien Dreyfus, MD, PhD, in an accompanying editorial comment, they add that in addition to residual TR severity – procedural complexity, patient selection and timing of intervention all remain crucial concerns for future work.
- Le Ruz, R, Agarwal, V, George, I. et al. Cardiac Remodeling After Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Replacement: Insights From Multimodality Imaging. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv. Published online, November 26, 2025. doi:10.1016/j.jcin.2025.10.023
- Hasse, C, von Stein, P, Althoff, J. et al. Cardiac Remodeling Following Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Annuloplasty for Tricuspid Regurgitation: A Real-World, Multicenter Analysis. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv. 2025 (23)2911-2921. doi:10.1016/j.jcin.2025.10.010
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Lenovo Paves the Way for AI Innovation with Modern Data Storage Solutions and Services
- New Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile storage and virtualization infrastructure solutions provide optimal performance, security and efficiency for the most demanding AI and enterprise workloads
- New Lenovo ThinkSystem DS Series Storage Arrays provide simple deployment and management for virtualized environments running mission-critical enterprise workloads
- New Lenovo ThinkAgile FX Series provides maximum flexibility and investment protection with a multi-vendor hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) appliance.
- Tailored Lenovo Hybrid Cloud Advisory and Deployment services leverage structured and unstructured data to achieve business outcomes with AI
December 10, 2025 – Lenovo today announced an expansive series of new data storage, virtualization solutions and data management services, designed to help customers modernize their IT and data infrastructure for powering enterprise applications and AI ready capabilities. Today’s new offerings include new Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile data storage and virtualization solutions, announced in tandem with data management services. Designed to provide a modern foundation for enterprises and mid-size businesses achieving AI innovations, this announcement combines complementary hardware, software and services offerings to help deploy, manage, and unleash the true potential of enterprise data.
“Sixty-three percent of organizations either do not have or are unsure if they have the right data management practices for AI, according to a survey by Gartner ®.” 1 Customer unique data is the differentiation that will drive their competitive advantage and most accurate results, however 80% of storage deployed in the last 5 years is on slower hard drive-based storage (according to IDC reporting) that is not optimized for AI. At the same time, customers are challenged with new virtualization and containerization requirements that demand open solutions. Businesses must mitigate this risk by ensuring their enterprise data systems and practices are modernized for advanced use cases.
“With disruptions in enterprise virtualization strategies and the mandate to make their data ready for the most demanding workloads, organizations are looking to modernize their legacy infrastructure with open solutions,” said Stuart McRae, Executive Director and General Manager of Data Storage at Lenovo. “These new offerings provide the security, flexibility, and performance to optimize enterprise applications and power enterprises to extract maximum value from data.”
Flexibility and Choice for Virtualization and Data Needs
Businesses today need the efficiency and cyber resiliency of their systems to run parallel to performance, simplicity, and scalability with an option to deploy on-prem and hybrid so that the data can stay in place for compliance while AI workloads run where appropriate. Lenovo has introduced new Lenovo ThinkSystem and Lenovo ThinkAgile Enterprise offerings optimized or AI, virtualization and storage bottlenecks, including:
- Lenovo ThinkSystem DS Series Storage Arrays: All-flash and protected Storage Area Network (SAN) block storage systems that are simple to deploy and manage for virtualized environments, improving performance and efficiency for virtualization and data modernization.
- Lenovo ThinkAgile FX Series: Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) that delivers an open architecture that supports seamless conversion between select HCI solutions without replacing hardware, delivering maximum investment protection and flexibility.
- Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Series for disaggregated storage for Microsoft Azure Local: As a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) integrated appliance provider with Microsoft, we are expanding support for disaggregated external Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SAN to deliver greater enterprise storage support for virtualization customers.
- Lenovo ThinkAgile MX Series with NVIDIA RTX Pro 6000: Integrated next generation GPU support to power advanced AI performance capabilities for enterprise inferencing with Microsoft Azure Local.
- Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series for AI Lenovo’s HCI offering features Nutanix Enterprise AI (NAI) software stack to enable customers running in virtualized and distributed containerized environments to deploy, run, and scale AI models in minutes.
Complete Lifecycle Services Optimized for Advanced Workloads including AI
To help customers fully realize the benefits of their new systems and prepare their data for AI, Lenovo is extending this momentum with a broad portfolio of hybrid cloud and data lifecycle services designed to modernize environments, strengthen reliability, and support evolving storage and AI workload requirements. This portfolio includes Lenovo Deployment Services for ThinkAgile and ThinkSystem that help organizations accelerate time to value through more efficient infrastructure rollout, alongside a range of storage services that can be consumed individually or through Lenovo’s flexible TruScale model to enhance performance, agility, and innovation across the data storage lifecycle.
To guide long-term strategy, Lenovo’s Hybrid Cloud Advisory Services help customers align on-prem or hybrid environments with compliance, data protection, and operational efficiency. Lenovo’s Migration Services help organizations optimize data and workloads by combining cloud flexibility with the dependability of existing infrastructure.
As part of Lenovo’s expanded Data Management Services portfolio, Lenovo Premier Enhanced Storage Support delivers a specialized, storage-focused experience for IT teams managing critical workloads. With direct access to Lenovo experts, customers benefit from proactive monitoring, performance optimization, and guided issue resolution—helping ensure systems run reliably, are better protected, and maintain the resilience needed to support AI innovation and hybrid cloud growth.
Explore how Lenovo is powering the future of Enterprise AI and Storage at https://www.lenovo.com/datastoragesolutions.
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Lenovo is a US$69 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #196 in the Fortune Global 500, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver Smarter Technology for All, Lenovo has built on its success as the world’s largest PC company with a full-stack portfolio of AI-enabled, AI-ready, and AI-optimized devices (PCs, workstations, smartphones, tablets), infrastructure (server, storage, edge, high performance computing and software defined infrastructure), software, solutions, and services. Lenovo’s continued investment in world-changing innovation is building a more equitable, trustworthy, and smarter future for everyone, everywhere. Lenovo is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange under Lenovo Group Limited (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY). To find out more visit https://www.lenovo.com, and read about the latest news via our StoryHub.
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