The company, which CEO Phil Bullinger currently leads, was founded by Moshe Yanai in 2011. It also has an office in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Lenovo eyes high-end enterprise storage market
The acquisition is part of Lenovo’s growth strategy to meet the evolving needs of modern data centers that are expected to handle AI and generative AI workloads, the company said, adding that Infinidat’s offering will find synergy with its Infrastructure Solutions Group and jointly will target the high-end enterprise storage market.
Currently, Lenovo’s Infrastructure Solutions business operates in the entry and mid-range enterprise storage market offering a portfolio of options, such as flash and hybrid arrays, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), software-defined storage (SDS), and data management suites such as Lenovo TruScale.
“This is a win-win for both companies. Lenovo fills a big void in its storage portfolio, while Infinidat is able to leverage a hardware design and manufacturing machine,” Matt Kimball, principal analyst at Moor Strategy and Insights, wrote on LinkedIn…