Supporting operations with agile infrastructure.

Multiple acquisitions have helped Asia Cement (China) to increase market share and manufacturing capacity. To support seamless future growth, Asia Cement worked with Lenovo to replace its outdated minicomputer with Lenovo ThinkSystem SR850 servers virtualized with VMware vSphere. Today, Asia Cement runs all its mission critical applications on the Lenovo ThinkSystem servers, including its production management, ERP, and finance systems, to take advantage of the servers’ high reliability and performance. The company’s small IT team manages the entire infrastructure from a central console, reducing admin workloads, accelerating deployment times by 50%, and cutting operational costs by 40%. With the Lenovo ThinkSystem solution, the company has also improved resource utilization by 45% and reduced the risk of costly server downtime,helping to increase production efficiency. Based on its positive experience of Lenovo solutions and services, Asia Cement is planning to install 10 additional Lenovo ThinkSystem servers to expand the virtualized environment and to support its energy management system.