beyond.pl runs reliable, round-the-clock cloud services supported by Lenovo technology

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Solution componentsHardware• Lenovo System x3650 M5 with

Intel® Xeon® E5 processor family• Lenovo NeXtScale System M5• Lenovo NeXtScale nx360 M5

compute nodes with Intel Xeon E5 processor family

Software• Microsoft Hyper-V

Services• Lenovo implementation services

beyond.plRunning reliable, round-the-clock cloud services supported by Lenovo technology

Customer success summaryLeading cloud provider beyond.pl chose Lenovo systems to support the largest Microsoft Hyper-V environment in Poland. Lenovo System x3650 servers provide the high performance and security levels needed to keep customer cloud services running smoothly all day, every day.

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“We looked at solutions from other vendors, but Lenovo was the clear winner.”

— Michał Grzybkowski, CEO, beyond.pl

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Supporting 24/7 operationsCurrently one of the top three cloud providers in Poland, beyond.pl has its sights firmly set on becoming the market leader.Since its foundation in 2005, the company has made security, innovation and efficiency its top priorities. beyond.pl owns and operates two data centers in Poland, both of which offer the highest levels of energy efficiency and strict compliance with security standards. The company’s data center in Poznań, for example, is Tier III-certified and offers 99.982 percent availability – meaning that there is less than 1.6 hours of downtime per year. Its second state-of-the-art data center is Tier IV-certified and delivers 99.99 percent availability.To guarantee continuous operations, beyond.pl relies on having a fully redundant network infrastructure in place. To deliver the best possible service to customers, the company wanted to expand its cloud offering.

Teaming up with Lenovobeyond.pl decided to implement Lenovo System x3650 servers to run Microsoft Hyper-V as an additional virtualization platform.Powered by CPUs from the Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 v3 processor family, the Lenovo servers offer the high levels of performance needed to support virtualization – currently the largest Microsoft Hyper-V environment in Poland. External hard disks eliminate the need for additional Fibre Channel platforms or other kinds of storage devices – keeping maintenance costs low. In addition, the Lenovo solution offers market-leading levels of reliability.The company also uses Lenovo NeXtScale technology to support data center operations. Highly scalable, the Lenovo NeXtScale solution enables beyond.pl to maximize its IT investment by extending capacity – both horizontally and vertically – to meet individual customer needs.

Backgroundbeyond.pl is one of Poland’s largest cloud providers, offering businesses across a range of industries reliable Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) resources. One of the key players in the Polish cloud computing market, beyond.pl is the only provider in the country to offer technology-agnostic public, private and hybrid cloud services.

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Delivering sky-high service levelsToday, beyond.pl takes advantage of Lenovo server solutions at both of its data centers. The Lenovo System x3650 servers exceed all of the company’s requirements, as Michał Grzybkowski, CEO at beyond.pl, remarks: “Our Lenovo solution runs Microsoft Hyper-V platform very efficiently. We looked at solutions from other vendors, but Lenovo was the clear winner.”beyond.pl is one of the only companies in Poland to independently service its Lenovo hardware. Thanks to in-depth training from Lenovo, beyond.pl staff can accurately diagnose and resolve issues. This capability has enabled beyond.pl to significantly reduce the time it takes to get systems back up and running.Michał Grzybkowski concludes: “The Lenovo solution has met all of our expectations, as well as those of our customers. We chose Lenovo because we trust the brand – having used Lenovo NeXtScale for several years, we know we can rely not just on Lenovo technology, but also on the local Lenovo team.”For more informationTo learn more about Lenovo Data Center Systems solutions, contact your Lenovo Sales Representative or Lenovo Business Partner, or visit: lenovo.com/systemsFor more information about beyond.pl, visit: www.beyond.pl/en/ or connect with @beyondpl

“We chose Lenovo because we trust the brand – having used Lenovo NeXtScale technology for several years, we know we can rely not just on Lenovo technology, but also on the local Lenovo team.” —Michał Grzybkowski,CEO, beyond.pl

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