Lenovo is expanding its virtualization portfolio with new infrastructure, deployment services, and validated solutions designed to give enterprises more flexibility as they modernize legacy environments and prepare for AI workloads.
The additions include the ThinkAgile VX850 V4, expanded Infrastructure Deployment Services, and new Express Solutions spanning Microsoft, Red Hat, Nutanix, and SUSE technologies.
For channel partners, the expansion creates more ways to position virtualization modernization without forcing customers into a single infrastructure path. The addition of tiered deployment services also gives partners another layer of implementation and post-deployment support to incorporate into projects where customers need more help moving from hardware installation to production-ready operations.
ThinkAgile VX850 V4 targets demanding virtualized workloads
Built for highly virtualized, demanding in-memory workloads, the Lenovo ThinkAgile VX850 V4 expands the organization’s virtualization portfolio with infrastructure optimized for complex environments.
It supports both structured and unstructured data, providing organizations with a foundation for consolidating and modernizing critical workloads.
As AI integration expands, the VX850 V4 helps organizations modernize the infrastructure that supports business-critical applications.
Lenovo expands infrastructure deployment services
The Lenovo Infrastructure Deployment Services portfolio features three pre-defined service levels to help customers move from deployment to production-ready operations.
The levels include: Standard Deploy, Premier Deploy, and Premier Deploy Plus.
The three-option deployment structure makes it easier for customers to understand and select the deployment approach that best suits their project complexity, business criticality, internal IT capabilities, and the level of assurance they require after go-live.
All three options provide a structured foundation for readiness and expert hardware installation.
Premier Deploy and Premier Deploy Plus extend that structured readiness foundation with implementation and operational handoff support for projects that require it. Premier Deploy Plus also adds extended post-deployment assistance and a one-year infrastructure health assessment to help customers identify issues early and inform next steps.
“Organizations are focused on modernizing virtualized infrastructure to improve efficiency and resilience while maintaining flexibility in an increasingly complex IT landscape,” said Scott Patti, Vice President, Infrastructure Solutions Group, Lenovo. “Lenovo is helping customers modernize the infrastructure they rely on today with greater choice and control, while building an AI-ready foundation that can evolve as their requirements change.”
Microsoft, Red Hat, Nutanix and SUSE anchor open ecosystem
As part of the Lenovo Top Choice Express program, the Lenovo Express Solutions portfolio is being expanded.
The expanded portfolio includes:
- Microsoft Hyper-V Ready Solutions and Windows Server: Offers a validated Lenovo infrastructure foundation for customers modernizing virtualized environments.
- Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization Solutions: Enables organizations to run and manage virtual machines alongside containerized applications on a unified platform to bridge traditional with modern workloads.
- Microsoft Azure Local with Lenovo ThinkAgile MX V4: Enables customers to run virtualized, AI, and cloud-native workloads across distributed and hybrid customer-controlled environments with consistent Azure management and operations.
- Lenovo ThinkSystem with Nutanix Compute Cluster: The Nutanix Cloud Platform simplifies virtualization management in shifting landscapes with independent compute scaling, greater workload flexibility, and improved operational efficiency.
- SUSE Virtualization on Lenovo ThinkSystem V4: Supports virtual machine and container workloads on a unified foundation.
“Modernization is an in-place initiative; it does not require starting over. Lenovo brings together best-of-breed virtualization, hybrid cloud, storage, infrastructure management, deployment services, and strategic technology partners into an open ecosystem that evolves with customers’ AI journey,” said Matt Eastwood, Senior Vice President, IDC’s Enterprise Infrastructure and Datacenter Group.
“Together, these capabilities provide a flexible infrastructure foundation for traditional enterprise, cloud-native, and AI-native workloads, and emerging business use cases, allowing organizations to modernize incrementally while maintaining control over how and where workloads and data are deployed,” Eastwood added.