Peruvian bank, Banco de Crédito del Perú (BCP), is rationalizing its data center footprint by deploying Lenovo nodes.

BCP aims to optimize its data center and reduce its server fleet by installing 154 nodes of Lenovo's ThinkAgile VX servers, reports BNAmericas.

ThinkAgile is a hyperconverged infrastructure solution integrated with VMare's data center platform. The servers are powered by the 4th generation of Intel's Xeon processors.

According to the company, the 154 nodes will replace BCP's 400 existing blade servers - also Lenovo hardware - and 12 storage systems, resulting in a 60 percent hardware reduction.

In addition to less hardware, the move is expected to improve performance by up to 53 percent, reduce energy costs by 20 percent, and see 30 percent in savings related to human resources.

“We currently have hundreds of servers and storage systems in our data center. By consolidating to the Lenovo ThinkAgile VX series, we will have much less physical infrastructure, requiring less power, less cooling, and less manual labor to operate,” David Villavicencio Bernal, BCP's manager of strategy, technology innovation, infrastructure, and IT operations, said in the statement.

The company plans to install an additional 100 ThinkAgile VX nodes in the next four years to migrate workloads from its IBM Z mainframe and IBM Power Systems infrastructure. "We expect the Lenovo HCI solution to make our data center operations leaner, greener, and ready for the future," said Villavicencio Berna.

Terms of the contract were not shared.

BCP's data center is located in La Molina, Peru, and is Uptime Tier III certified.

Earlier this year, Lenovo was selected for an AI project for Chile's stock exchange, providing a high-frequency trading solution via on-premise Lenovo servers.

Lenovo was founded in Beijing in 1984. The company's infrastructure solutions group business unit has its origins in IBM. In 2014, the company acquired IBM's x86 servers unit for $2.3 billion. Lenovo launched its ThinkAgile solutions in 2017, updating the line with Intel's 5th generation of processors in 2023.

Earlier this month, Lenovo updated its ThinkSystem portfolio to support the AMD Epyc 9005 Series processors and AMD Instinct MI325X accelerators.