Lenovo expands infrastructure portfolio to support virtualisation modernisation and AI workloads
Lenovo has announced new infrastructure solutions and deployment services aimed at helping enterprises modernise virtualised environments and prepare for AI workloads.
The portfolio includes the ThinkAgile VX850 V4 for highly virtualised environments and in-memory workloads, three tiers of infrastructure deployment services, and an expanded range of Lenovo Express Solutions covering virtualisation and hybrid cloud platforms.
“Organisations are focused on modernising virtualised infrastructure to improve efficiency and resilience while maintaining flexibility in an increasingly complex IT landscape,” said Scott Patti, Vice President, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Lenovo. He said the company’s offerings were intended to give customers greater choice and control while allowing their infrastructure to evolve with changing requirements.
Lenovo’s expanded Express Solutions portfolio includes validated configurations for Microsoft Hyper-V and Windows Server, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, Microsoft Azure Local, Nutanix Compute Cluster and SUSE Virtualization. The configurations combine Lenovo infrastructure with partner software to reduce integration complexity and simplify deployment.
The company has also introduced three deployment service options: Standard Deploy, Premier Deploy and Premier Deploy Plus. While all three include hardware installation and deployment-readiness support, the higher tiers add implementation and operational handover assistance. Premier Deploy Plus also includes extended post-deployment support and a one-year infrastructure health assessment, excluding DE Storage Array.
The ThinkAgile VX850 V4 is designed to support structured and unstructured data in highly virtualised enterprise environments. Lenovo said the system would help organisations consolidate critical workloads while modernising the infrastructure supporting business applications.
The portfolio also includes ThinkSystem Storage and ThinkAgile hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, alongside updates to Lenovo XClarity Controller 3 and XClarity One for infrastructure management. Lenovo said its storage and infrastructure offerings include data protection and cyber-resilience capabilities intended to support recovery planning and operational continuity.
Srinivas Rao, Managing Director, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Lenovo India, said enterprises moving AI projects from pilots to production faced challenges involving legacy applications, data readiness and modernisation without disrupting daily operations.
“As enterprises in India move AI from pilots to production, the challenge is no longer intent, but integrating legacy applications, getting data ready and modernising without disrupting day-to-day operations,” Rao said. He added that Lenovo’s solutions were designed to make infrastructure modernisation more predictable.
Matt Eastwood, Senior Vice President of IDC’s Enterprise Infrastructure and Datacenter Group, said organisations did not necessarily need to replace their existing infrastructure to modernise.
“Modernisation is an in-place initiative; it does not require starting over,” Eastwood said, adding that an open infrastructure ecosystem could allow organisations to modernise incrementally while retaining control over where workloads and data are deployed.