MORRISVILLE – In the opening keynote at Lenovo’s Tech World 2021 virtual event, Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing argued that the powerful force of digital transformation will lead to new, reimagined futures for technology, for businesses, and for society.

With a changing environment, Yang also announced that Lenovo will expand Lenovo TruScale, and that move will now enable the company to provide “Everything-as-a-Service.”

Yang, in the keynote address, said that this was the most important news of the day, noting that the company’s flexible consumption model launched two and a half years ago, but is now expanding.  “A major trend that will reshape the IT industry,” said Yang about the model, under which Lenovo anticipates providing service to clients beyond delivering devices, hardware, software, or cloud solutions.

“The design, deployment, and operation of architecture is becoming more complicated,” said Yang.  “Adopting device as a service, infrastructure as a service,” he said.  “Easy to scale, easy to upload, and download, choosing the platform as a service, and software as a service.”

“Buying a solution from Lenovo will be as easy as buying a PC,” he said.

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In the keynote, Yang predicted that hybrid work environments will be persistent, and that workers and businesses will demand technology capabilities, that will yield greater connectivity and greater connection, regardless of their physical location.

“The future workplace will likely be a hybrid model,” said Yang.  “A permanent structure of change of individual lifestyle and organizational culture.”

The event, Lenovo’s 7th annual Tech World, also included appearances from CEOs of companies with which Lenovo partners, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who shared in a pre-recorded video that Microsoft believes that businesses are in the process of redesigning the workplace.

“We need to redesign even our spaces to be more inclusive, ensuring remote entities can participate as first-class participants in any meeting,” said Nadella.  “Innovations like these, I think, help everyone feel that they are in the same room together, so they can fully participate.”

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Yang also welcomed Rajiv Ramaswami, the CEO of Nutanix, who noted that a partnership between the two companies is helping businesses like Toyota make its own digital transformation, through transitioning more technology integrations to as-a-service models.

“We brought more end user computer choice and convenience to you,” said Ramaswami.  “One monthly price, inclusive of all software, systems, and services,” he said, adding that an additional benefit to companies is that there is a single point of contact for all components.

Nadella also described how Microsoft’s partnership with Lenovo will provide businesses with enhanced predictability, which the Microsoft CEO noted is increasingly valued by corporations.  The “as-a-service” model, said Nadella, “provides customers a complete as a service model for hybrid cloud deployments” that also “offers a single billing model.”

To close the opening keynote session, Yang noted that technology will play a more vital role than ever before, and announced that Lenovo will double its investment in research and development in each of the next three years.

“Companies play a central role in solving humanity’s greatest challenges,” said Yang.  “Everywhere, and all the time.”