Following the acquisition of IBM's x86 server business, Lenovo is planning to merge its two server brands into one and use the unified brand to release products in 2017. Lenovo is already developing new products for 2017, according to product marketing director of Lenovo's Taipei server R&D Center, Andrew Huang.
Currently, Lenovo has two product brands under its server business, ThinkServer and System X, and Lenovo is no longer using the IBM name to sell System X servers since August 2015.
With the acquisition, Lenovo's share in worldwide server market rose to 7% in the second quarter of 2015 to become the fourth largest vendor.
As for Taiwan, Lenovo is looking to stay in the top-2 rankings and in the first quarter, Lenovo was the largest server vendor in Taiwan with a 30% market share in terms of shipments, followed by Hewlett-Packard (HP) with 25.2%.
Lenovo has also recently landed orders from Alibaba for 50,000 servers.
Article translated by Joseph Tsai
