Lenovo no longer sits in IBM’s shadow, as the Chinese PC manufacturer continues to climb up the Top 25 list (it also helps that Gartner, for inexplicable reasons, says IBM is ineligible for consideration because its income is largely derived from services, despite the billions in revenues the company earns from its mainframe and server products). IBM’s recent announcement that it would sell off its server business to Lenovo should only enhance the Chinese company’s reputation, which is built on a data-driven approach to global supply chain network design.