Lenovo expands Hybrid AI Advantage for enterprise adoption
Lenovo has announced the expansion of Hybrid AI Advantage, introducing new services, industry-specific solutions and collaborative platforms to support enterprise adoption and deployment of artificial intelligence technologies.
The initiative offers a combination of advisory, implementation, and change management services as well as hybrid AI infrastructure backed by partnerships with Cisco, IBM and NVIDIA. Lenovo aims to provide enterprises with the resources needed to build and operate AI capabilities across a variety of environments, including cloud, edge, and on-premise.
Lenovo's Global CIO Playbook highlights ongoing challenges among businesses investing in AI, with two-thirds not yet seeing a return on investment, struggling particularly with scaling, training, and modernising their infrastructure. As AI spending is projected to reach almost 20% of IT budgets in 2025, Lenovo has positioned its expanded Hybrid AI Advantage to address these gaps.
Ashley Gorakhpurwalla, President, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Lenovo, said:
"Lenovo is leading hybrid AI with groundbreaking advancements in integrated solutions that are driving industry-wide innovation and making enterprise-level AI attainable for every business. With these solutions and trusted partnerships, Lenovo is turning AI into reality with use cases and services that have been tested and proven to drive measurable productivity gains, boost satisfaction, and unlock data for real business value faster."
Alongside its billion-dollar investment in accelerating enterprise AI adoption, Lenovo has recorded a year-over-year increase of nearly 40% in customer adoptions. The company states that its services allow businesses to activate AI across their workforces and operations while documented frameworks for generative AI could lead to a reported 31% increase in time saved per week.
AI-enabling services
AI Adoption and Change Management Services form a core part of the expansion, with features such as AI People Readiness Assessment, persona-based training, Copilot integration, and governance support. Lenovo claims these services are designed to ready organisations for AI transformation by focusing on workforce upskilling, engagement, and onboarding of generative AI tools.
Ken Wong, Executive Vice President and President, Solutions and Services Group, Lenovo, commented:
"AI adoption demands a clear strategy, trusted expertise, and the right technology mix that can accelerate time to value. With the Lenovo Hybrid AI Advantage, we are helping customers turn AI potential into real performance gains, enabling every part of the organisation to work smarter, faster, and with greater confidence."
Lenovo cited examples of deploying its advisory services within sectors such as aviation, healthcare, and manufacturing, highlighting a recent digital workplace transformation for an airline that achieved efficiency gains through tailored programme design and planning over a three-month period.
Industry use cases
The Hybrid AI Advantage portfolio includes solutions targeted at manufacturing, hospitality, retail, and smart spaces. Examples include collaboration with Centific and NVIDIA for hospitality platforms focused on guest loyalty and operational efficiency, Avathon Visual AI for real-time workplace safety monitoring, and partnerships with WaitTime and Intel for crowd analytics in retail spaces.
Additionally, the partnership with Trifork and NVIDIA brings automated quality inspection solutions for the manufacturing sector, using AI-powered insights for defect detection and model retraining on the factory floor.
Hybrid platforms and infrastructure
The expansion includes new high-performance systems such as the ThinkSystem SR680a V4, equipped with Intel Xeon 6 CPUs and eight NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs interconnected with NVIDIA NVLink technology. The platform is designed to offer up to eleven times faster AI inferencing capabilities on large language models and up to seven times computational capacity compared to previous versions.
Other components include the hybrid AI platform with IBM watsonx, which integrates with Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 servers, and a collaborative platform with Cisco, supported by NVIDIA Spectrum-X technology. The IBM watsonx platform provides validated, ready-to-deploy generative AI infrastructure, while the Cisco collaboration is aimed at boosting network performance for enterprise AI deployments.
The Hybrid AI platform with Cisco is built on the ThinkSystem SR675 V3, supporting up to eight NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, and is intended as a universal data centre system that shifts workloads from CPU-based to GPU-accelerated environments.
Lenovo states that regardless of an organisation's stage in its AI journey, these offerings are designed to deliver measurable business outcomes using established infrastructure and frameworks, aiming to support enterprises from initial adoption through to scaling and optimisation.
