Case Study: Lenovo achieves rapid, energy-efficient liquid‑cooled HPC deployment with Digital Realty (solution provider)

Financial Services Enterprise Deploys Risk Calculation Workload Quickly with Lenovo Neptune™ and Digital Realty’s High-Density Colocation

A major European financial services firm serving tens of millions of customers needed to scale and distribute its high-performance compute (HPC) risk‑calculation workloads after centralized systems at headquarters began to suffer performance and latency issues. Building a new data center would take years and require large capital investment, while the company also had strict data‑residency, security and sustainability requirements and wanted an energy‑efficient cooling solution.

The firm selected Lenovo ThinkSystem servers with Neptune™ direct liquid cooling deployed in Digital Realty’s High‑Density Colocation on PlatformDIGITAL®, retrofitting an existing facility close to its ecosystem. The solution was live in four months (about 6x faster than building a new site), delivered a 30% improvement in energy efficiency, supported renewable‑energy matching and 99.999% uptime, and avoided the capital and time costs of building a new data center.

Lenovo

Flynn Maloy

Chief Marketing Officer