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Intersec Shanghai, the Chinese extension of the globally recognised security brand Intersec, will launch 13–15 May 2025 at the National Exhibition and Convention Centre (Shanghai).  Gathering a variety of exhibitors, the fair will spotlight digital technologies and innovative solutions across key sectors, including security, fire safety, emergency response, and occupational protection. Digital advancements With a special focus on cutting-edge digital advancements, the show aims to empower public safety, emergency management, industrial safety, and disaster prevention. The global security landscape has become increasingly complex in recent years, driving governments worldwide to prioritise the safety and security sector.  Smart security hardware and software market China has taken significant steps by implementing a series of policies to accelerate industry growth China has taken significant steps by implementing a series of policies to accelerate industry growth. By 2025, the smart security hardware and software market in China is projected to reach RMB 91.3 billion (USD 12.5 billion), while the market for occupational protection products is expected to reach RMB 145 billion (USD 19.9 billion).  Furthermore, the smart fire safety market is anticipated to surge to RMB 422.2 billion (USD 57.8 billion) by 2026. A joint report by SIA, ASIS, and Omdia predicts a CAGR of 8.2% for the global physical security equipment market and 6.9% for security services from 2022 to 2026.  Against this backdrop of robust domestic growth, Intersec Shanghai emerges as a pivotal platform for companies to showcase their innovations and expand their market reach. Global and domestic industry pioneers under one roof Intersec Shanghai combines Messe Frankfurt’s international expertise with Intersec’s extensive resources in the security sector.  The show will be held concurrently with the Yangtze Delta International Emergency Disaster Reduction & Rescue Expo (EDRR), which focuses on government-led emergency systems and disaster resilience.  Latest advancements in security The previous edition’s EDRR attracted more than 600 exhibitors and over 80,000 visitors, together drawing a higher number of buyers The previous edition’s EDRR attracted more than 600 exhibitors and over 80,000 visitors, together drawing a higher number of buyers and offering a valuable opportunity for cross-sector sourcing in security, safety, and disaster risk reduction. This year, both fairs have attracted pioneering brands such as 3M, HAINAR GROUP, CETC, CPIC, StarWin, Fire Chem, BFDX, GRANDING, LINGYIN, HANGZHOU AITE, DXGuard, Inrico, Lenovo, BAOLIFENG, OUBAO, PICC, Raythink, Beckwell, SHANGHAI HANYU, Shanghai Hygloves, Shanghai Petrochemical, Shanghai Xihongqiao Navigation Industry Development, Kingber Safety, CommPro, Tianlong Century, CRUN LTD, Sinomartin, Sunstorm, Jiaogao Fire Protection, TAIYU, Zhoan, TLX, top safe, Tyco, VdS, WALLEAN, huangdongmei trading, LONGJUN FIRE EQUIPMENT, YUNHE Technology, FERRASUN, Wanlian, Zhejiang Xun'an Flood Control, e-sunhigh and more. These exhibitors will present their latest advancements in security, fire safety, and emergency response, fostering cross-industry collaboration and growth. Adaptable training systems and real-world scenario simulation Among them, YUNHE Technology will showcase its VR Firefighting Training Solution and Military Deployment Command Training System, emphasising adaptable training systems and real-world scenario simulation. These solutions are designed for emergency management, public safety education, professional training for firefighting and security units, and industrial safety training. YUNHE Technology highlights the industry’s shift from ‘passive protection’ to ‘operational empowerment’, where security converges with human behaviour data, smart feedback, and education. Range of high-efficiency solutions The platform aims to facilitate digital transformation for enterprises, allowing them to operations TLX is a fire safety pioneer in integrated solution design and manufacturing. At the fair, the company will showcase its Supervised Latching Solenoid Actuators, along with a range of high-efficiency solutions tailored for complex fire suppression needs.  Meanwhile, Tyco, a security pioneer, will introduce its one-stop security management platform, enabling seamless compatibility with third-party systems for fire control, building automation, human resources, and more. The platform aims to facilitate digital transformation for enterprises, allowing them to streamline their operations. Digital frameworks connecting security innovations Beyond the showcase, the Intersec Shanghai Digitalisation Application of Security Industry Value Chain Summit will bring together government officials and industry pioneers to explore digital solutions in security, emergency response, fire safety, and occupational protection.  The summit will provide a comprehensive business platform for all industry stakeholders. Key highlights include: Trend analysis: experts will analyse policy trends and technological advancements, featuring case studies on digital applications in energy mining, smart buildings, and environmental safety monitoring. Report launch: the 2025 Digital Transformation Survey for the Safety & Security Industry will be released, providing essential standards and practical guidelines for the sector. Real world applications: focused on ‘full-scenario integration’, sessions will delve into digital applications for safety supervision, operational maintenance, and early-warning systems across critical sectors. Awards ceremony: the a&s Top Digital Products & Solutions Awards will recognise outstanding innovations, serving as a trusted reference for integrators and end-users in their procurement decisions. Intersec Shanghai is organised by Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd and CCPIT Shanghai.

Lenovo announced its largest storage portfolio refresh in company history, unveiling new Lenovo Data Storage Solutions that prepare enterprise IT for the age of AI with better efficiency, performance and scalability. Ushering in a new era of AI-optimised storage that propels business transformation, the complete portfolio includes storage arrays, software defined storage (SDI), and new AI and virtualisation innovations to flexibly address rapidly evolving data operations. Lenovo’s ongoing commitment Using the solutions, businesses can easily run AI and data modernisation workloads on the next generation of trusted Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile infrastructure, unleashing data to power real-time reasoning and confidently deploying AI and data modernisation workloads at scale.   Businesses can easily run AI and data modernisation workloads on the next generation of trusted Lenovo ThinkSystem As business pioneers seek tangible ROI on AI investment, EMEA IDC research commissioned by Lenovo found that data sovereignty, compliance and quality data are the most important AI implementation success factors among CIOs while scaling AI and data quality are among the biggest obstacles. The new portfolio reflects Lenovo’s ongoing commitment to delivering innovative storage solutions that meet the evolving needs of modern data centres while helping businesses get the most out of their data.  New Lenovo Data Storage Solutions “The new Lenovo Data Storage Solutions help businesses harness AI’s transformative power with a data-driven strategy that ensures scalability, interoperability, and tangible business outcomes powered by trusted infrastructure,” said Scott Tease, Vice President and General Manager of Infrastructure Solutions Product Group at Lenovo. “The new solutions help customers achieve faster time to value no matter where they are on their IT modernisation journey with turnkey AI solutions that mitigate risk and simplify deployment.” Next-generation data storage solutions   Marco Pozzoni, Director, EMEA Storage Sales at Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group commented, “This is a pivotal moment for our customers across EMEA. With organisations facing a range of complex challenges, our largest-ever data storage portfolio refresh delivers the performance, efficiency, and data resiliency required by Data Modernisation and Enterprise AI workloads." "At a time when businesses are increasingly looking for ROI on their tech investments, these next-generation data storage solutions will empower our customers to unleash the power of their data, securely.”  Solutions for enterprise AI, virtualisation, and sustainability​   Portfolio spans 21 new ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile models designed with accelerated computing and efficiency The portfolio spans 21 new ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile models designed with the accelerated computing and efficiency that companies need to kickstart their AI journey, supporting employee productivity and maximising value with solutions for enterprise AI, virtualisation and sustainability. Key innovations include turnkey AI Starter Kits, the industry’s first liquid-cooled HCI appliances and converged hybrid cloud and virtualisation solutions. The Data Storage Solutions are finetuned for easy deployment, faster inferencing, workload consolidation and lower total cost of ownership (TCO), delivering enhanced capabilities:  Lenovo ThinkAgile SDI V4 Series provides full-stack, turnkey solutions that simplify IT infrastructure and accelerate computing for data-driven reasoning and faster time to value for AI LLM inferencing workloads.  Engineered to put actionable data insights to work more quickly in business operations, the new Lenovo ThinkSystem Storage Arrays deliver up to 3x faster performance while reducing power consumption1, providing up to 97% energy savings and 99% density improvement over a Lenovo device featuring 10K HDDs for smaller data centre footprints and lower TCO and when upgrading legacy infrastructure2.  New converged Lenovo ThinkAgile and ThinkSystem hybrid cloud and virtualisation solutions deliver flexible and efficient independent scaling of compute and storage capabilities, reducing software licencing costs up to 40 percent, maximising business value3.  New Lenovo ThinkAgile HX Series GPT-in-a-Box solutions featuring Lenovo Neptune™ Liquid Cooling leverage the industry’s first liquid cooled HCI appliance to deliver turnkey AI inferencing that takes AI from concept to success across distributed applications, from edge to cloud, yielding up to 25% energy savings over previous generation to increase ROI and achieve data-driven breakthroughs4.  New AI Starter Kits for Lenovo Hybrid AI Platform deliver a validated, flexible, and easy on-ramp for enterprise inferencing and retrieval-augmented (RAG) workflows.  Kickstart the enterprise AI journey  Businesses are moving to a disaggregated infrastructure model, turning compute, storage, and networking With AI on the rise and the challenge of supporting both legacy and modern workloads, organisations are rethinking how they approach IT. Businesses are moving to a disaggregated infrastructure model, turning compute, storage, and networking into on-demand, shared resources that can adapt to changing needs to boost scalability, efficiency, and flexibility.  AI Starter Kits for Lenovo Hybrid AI Platform The AI Starter Kits for Lenovo Hybrid AI Platform are pre-configured infrastructure solutions engineered to simplify and accelerate the adoption of enterprise AI deployments. The validated configurations, comprising compute, storage, GPUs and networking, are built to scale alongside an organisation’s needs.  Configured with the AI Starter Kits, the new ThinkSystem Series Storage Arrays deliver unified file, block, and object storage to eliminate data silos and leverage high-performance SSD flash technology for faster time to insight.  Additionally, the AI Starter Kits include the new AI-powered autonomous ransomware protection, encryption for greater data protection and synchronous replication with transparent failover to ensure maximum solution uptime.  Powering the new age of enterprise AI and data modernisation  Enterprise AI projects depend on high-performance storage systems to keep up with the pace of model training Bringing accelerated computing to the source of enterprise data is critical to business success, and the infrastructure must evolve to meet this demand. Enterprise AI projects depend on high-performance storage systems to keep up with the pace and scale of model training, inference, and RAG.   The Lenovo ThinkAgile SDI V4 Series and new Lenovo ThinkSystem Storage Arrays deliver full-stack, turnkey AI-ready infrastructure for enterprises beginning AI implementations while delivering faster inferencing performance for LLM workloads. The offerings are purpose-built for a broad range of enterprise AI and data modernisation workloads, from databases, ERP and CRM, to virtualisation, hybrid cloud, backup and archive. Primary AI use cases include AI inferencing, RAG, and fine-tuning AI models. Hybrid cloud and virtualisation solutions Capitalising on AI while optimising virtualisation requires a major evolution of storage infrastructure to accelerate data, optimise costs, and secure data assets. New converged hybrid cloud and virtualisation solutions deliver flexible and efficient independent scaling of compute and storage capabilities. For example, the new Lenovo ThinkAgile Converged Solution for VMware brings together the enterprise-class features of ThinkAgile VX Series, such as lifecycle management and operational simplicity, with the robust data-management offered by the ThinkSystem DG Series storage arrays to provide a unified cloud platform that is flexible and supports hybrid storage workloads.    Industry-first liquid-cooled HCI brings GPT-in-a-box   Lenovo now offers the industry’s first liquid-cooled HCI appliance as part of the ThinkAgile V4 series In addition to providing the broadest, most open set of data storage solutions, Lenovo now offers the industry’s first liquid-cooled HCI appliance as part of the ThinkAgile V4 series, improving efficiency for high-powered AI workloads and achieving up to 25 percent energy savings compared to previous generations4. Using this innovation, the new Lenovo GPT-in-a-box with Liquid Cooling full-stack generative AI solution with Lenovo ThinkAgile HX jumpstarts AI integration using a repeatable solution that lowers energy costs for faster data-powered AI reasoning that delivers faster ROI and innovation anywhere.   Driving the future of AI evolution  Lenovo’s next-generation technology combined with Lenovo Premier Enhanced Storage Support, supports IT teams with tailored expertise and rapid response times, delivering scalability, performance and reliability so organisations can deploy AI with confidence and innovate without the constraints of outdated infrastructure.  “Innovation is embedded in OneNet’s DNA and partnering with Lenovo represents a commitment to modernising the data centre with cutting-edge solutions that drive efficiency and sustainability,” said Tony Weston, Chief Technology Officer at OneNet. “Backed by Lenovo solutions and Lenovo Premier Support, OneNet can deliver high-availability, high-performance private cloud services that our customers can depend on.”  Next generation of Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile ThinkSystem DG and DM storage arrays feature new AI-powered autonomous ransomware protection The next generation of Lenovo ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile solutions are also designed with integrated data security and resiliency features to lower operational risk and provide greater data protection, such as tamper-proof snapshots and software-based encryption. ThinkSystem DG and DM storage arrays feature new AI-powered autonomous ransomware protection, which elevates cyber resiliency by leveraging machine learning models to proactively detect and mitigate attacks. Lenovo’s XClarity systems management software The Lenovo Data Storage Solutions also feature Lenovo’s XClarity systems management software support, giving businesses comprehensive security features to ensure management, encryption, compliance, and communication for all managed storage solutions.  With the next generation of AI-optimised, integrated solutions, Lenovo is empowering organisations to move quickly to modernise systems while ensuring the future-proofing of tech stacks, so customers across all industries can harness data to transform.

Scality, a pioneer in cyber-resilient storage for the AI era, unveiled a first-of-its-kind unified software appliance developed in collaboration with Veeam® Software, a pioneer in data resilience.  The solution combines Veeam Backup & Replication™ software, part of the Veeam Data Platform, with Scality ARTESCA — cyber-resilient object storage software — in a single, streamlined software appliance.  Scality ARTESCA+ Veeam Scality ARTESCA+ Veeam is a unified software appliance that provides a combined deployment of best-of-breed ARTESCA and Veeam software co-located on a single host server. The solution completely eliminates the need for separate (physical or virtual) infrastructure for Veeam, thereby reducing deployment complexity, time, and cost by up to 30%. The solution can be deployed on the customer's choice of hardware platforms, such as HPE, Supermicro, and Lenovo. ARTESCA+ Veeam unified software appliance Scality ARTESCA+ Veeam builds upon the three once told software, hardware, and virtual appliance “As the #1 global pioneer in data resilience, Veeam is thrilled to collaborate with Scality on the launch of the ARTESCA+ Veeam unified software appliance,” said Andreas Neufert, Vice President of Product Management, Alliances at Veeam. “This innovative solution simplifies the deployment of our industry-pioneering data resilience software alongside Scality's robust object storage, making it easier for organisations to enhance their cyber resilience. Scality has integrated Veeam into this new solution, combining our strengths to empower our joint customers to create secure defences against cyber threats while optimising their backup operations.” Scality ARTESCA+ Veeam builds upon the three previously announced software, hardware, and virtual appliance deployment offerings, making Scality the most versatile and flexible object storage backup target on the market. Key benefits of ARTESCA+ Veeam Ultra-simplified, foolproof deployment: Ensures fast and simple configuration of backup and storage for immutability and end-to-end cyber-resilience. Increased security: Veeam and Scality ARTESCA running on a single, CORE5-hardened software appliance built on zero-trust principles provides the most secure operation.  Restricted credential and endpoint exposure: Access key/secret key stays within ARTESCA, and the S3 endpoint no longer needs external DNS resolution, reducing attack vectors. Embedded firewall protection: Predefined firewall secures Veeam components, enforcing zero trust and least privilege by restricting access to necessary ports. Secure Windows access: Managed through ARTESCA Identity Manager with MFA, ensuring only authorised users can log in. Non-disruptive integrity checks: Self-sufficient by design, the appliance runs SureBackup Lite and backup content scans independently — without impacting the production system. Predictable performance: Running Veeam and Scality ARTESCA on dedicated hardware provides consistent, predictable performance with greater resource availability than hypervisor-based deployments. Cost efficiency: The fully integrated ARTESCA+ Veeam software appliance streamlines operations and reduces acquisition, support, and operating costs by eliminating the need for separate server and storage infrastructure. Operational simplicity: A single, integrated dashboard within ARTESCA monitors both ARTESCA and Veeam components. Channel-friendly design: Simple sizing and ordering make sales and deployment effortless for resellers and customers. ARTESCA’s security and simplicity Erwan Girard, chief product officer at Scality: "The unified software appliance marks a major milestone in our partnership with Veeam." "By combining ARTESCA’s security and simplicity with Veeam’s industry-pioneering data resilience solutions we’re enabling organisations to build unbreakable defences against cyber threats while optimising backup operations — without compromising performance." Scality ARTESCA+ Veeam unified software appliance sizing ARTESCA’s simplicity and low-entry pricing have recast Scality’s go-to-market plan within small business The Scality ARTESCA+ Veeam unified software appliance will initially be available as a single node, configurable to meet a range of VM and capacity requirements, from 20 VMs/TBs to hundreds of VMs/TBs. Designed for the channel, ARTESCA’s simplicity and low-entry pricing have transformed Scality’s go-to-market strategy within small and medium-sized businesses. Driven by a robust ecosystem of VARs, Cloud and Service Providers and strategic distributors, 60% of Scality’s record-breaking 2024 revenue came through the channel. Scality also recently launched its pay-as-you-go combined pricing model for Scality Cloud and Service Providers, unlocking a lucrative new subscription model and revenue stream for Veeam VCSP partners.  Availability Customers will be able to purchase the offering from their channel partners. Scality will provide channel partners with documentation and tooling to install the software appliance on one of a number of pre-validated hardware configurations.