What is ThinkAgile CP?

ThinkAgile CP is a private cloud with a premium experience. ThinkAgile CP brings the power of the cloud to the datacenter in an easy-to-use, on-premises cloud platform that automatically provides high performance resources for all types of applications and high performance workloads. As a truly composable cloud platform, ThinkAgile CP combines storage, network, compute, and virtualization components, managed via an integrated and intelligent operating system that gives you unprecedented insight and control over your resources.

ThinkAgile CP is ready for use out of the box. With a premium implementation, deployment, operations, and management experience, ThinkAgile CP is easy, powerful, and able to accelerate your applications – supporting business initiatives and better outcomes. The platform operates free of any hardware-specific dependencies and is programmatically extensible.

How do I purchase it?

ThinkAgile CP is sold either directly, through an OEM partner or a CSP/MSP. It is sold as a complete platform and includes all pre-validated application templates in the Lenovo Cloud Marketplace, the web-based Cloud Controller, networking, storage and compute blocks. The platform includes an API for the creation and re-factoring of applications so they can be made cloud-native, or you can also use your own licensed products.

• How does ThinkAgile CP work?
  The ThinkAgile CP was designed to simplify implementation, deployment, operations, and maintenance of cloud resources, enabling IT staff to be innovative and to accelerate time-to-market and time-to-value for your business.
• What can I do with ThinkAgile CP?
  Unlike any other cloud, ThinkAgile CP has been designed from the ground up to be a great fit for organizations that need to use private cloud for digital transformation initiatives, or as a platform to repatriate workloads from public cloud due to performance needs or data compliance and security concerns.
• How do I access and use ThinkAgile CP?
  Lenovo works with you to collect site survey information and then ship the platform on-site, ready for a certified technician to perform a white-glove deployment. The physical delivery, implementation, and deployment take less than a day. The actual system setup takes less than an hour. The necessary datacenter connectivity information is collected prior to installation to avoid any delays in deployment.
• ThinkAgile CP4000 series overview
  The Lenovo ThinkAgile CP4000 series scales as an initial data-management footprint for managed service provider and cloud service provider environments that start on a smaller scale but are poised for growth. The CP4000 series also supports business continuity when deployed remotely as an off-site backup for disaster recovery.
• ThinkAgile CP6000 series overview
  The Lenovo ThinkAgile CP6000 series offering can be scaled up to 40 compute nodes to support mainstream enterprise workloads and mixed-workload environments.
• ThinkAgile CP product components
  All hardware elements are abstracted by the software defined private cloud platform. The ThinkAgile CP network, compute, and storage hardware are completely cloud-managed, via the Cloud Controller, which makes it easy to build, manage, and monitor your cloud from any Web browser.
• Key product concepts
  ThinkAgile CP provides access to the virtual representations of your tightly integrated compute, storage, and network hardware components in the cloud; it enables you to provision, manage, and control your hardware. You easily and securely connect to the ThinkAgile CP Cloud Controller (web portal) by logging in with two-factor authentication. You do not need to connect to the hardware stack directly, only to the portal.