Lenovo Open Cloud Automation

Managing edge infrastructure at scale is a complex challenge

Data continues to grow in volume and variety. Processing needs are also moving to distributed edge locations, following the data and fueling AI models to make them smarter. This is a challenge since edge locations lack IT expertise to deploy and maintain the edge infrastructure needed to process that valuable data. Often, this leads to suboptimal performance, security risks, and high operational costs. To alleviate the above, Lenovo Open Cloud Automation delivers smarter edge deployments for AI and non-AI use-cases. The software solution enables remote deployment of your edge infrastructure. By automating provisioning, installation, and configuration, it reduces costs and complexity. Reduces time to market for Edge AI scenarios. Now you can ship unconfigured devices and manage their roll out from a central location. Lenovo Open Cloud Automation helps to skip the hassles of factory integration and staging. It's the smarter way to deploy and scale your edge infrastructure deployments.

Reduce Costs, Complexity, and time to market for Edge AI

With LOC-A, you can ship bare metal servers straight to edge locations. Your team drives edge infrastructure deployment using LOC-A's automation from a self-hosted, centralized portal. By remote installing the OS and cluster software, LOC-A simplifies the server journey.

Your team controls the configuration from a central portal, not by hand, on-site or in staging. This reduces operational costs and helps with managing a complex, distributed edge environment. LOC-A simplifies roll out so your team can focus where their work matters most.

Simplify Deployment Management

Get full visibility and control over your distributed edge infrastructure roll out. Define automated workflows for provisioning, deploying, updating, and managing your global edge footprint. With centralized oversight your team can ensure consistency, security, and optimal performance across all sites. With LOC-A you reduce the need for on-site IT skills.

Automate Provisioning and Configuration

LOC-A automates the entire process, from bare-metal provisioning to cluster configuration, for faster edge AI deployments. After the servers get installed on-site, LOC-A takes over. LOC-A does device on-boarding and Day 0 provisioning, OS installation and configuration, and Cluster deployment. All with settings and parameters tailored to each location, device, OS, and cluster. Templates created by your team in LOC-A enable repeatable deployments while ensuring adherence to standards – your team does not write any code. Automation eliminates manual steps to speed up your edge AI infrastructure roll out.

Key Features and benefits

• Automated provisioning and configuration of ThinkEdge servers
• Remote and automated deployment of OS and Cluster Software from central portal
• Centralized deployment management and visibility
• Customizable workflow templates
• Tailored configurations by location
• Simplified scaling of edge infrastructure roll out
• Software-defined process from shipment to deployment
• Reduced staging, logistics, and on-site IT skilled labor
• Edge hardware compatibility

Components

• Centralized deployment portal
• Automation engine
• UI driven, customizable deployment templates
• Registration utility
• Meta-data management
• Deployment monitoring and status
• REST APIs for integration
• Plugin Mechanism for fast onboarding of deployment templates

Why Lenovo for Edge AI

Lenovo infrastructure is built on a global manufacturing, services, and support footprint, and is ranked #1 globally in server reliability*. Our Edge AI and partner validated solutions are built on open standards and interfaces to preclude vendor lock-in.

Lenovo Open Cloud Automation (LOC-A) offers at scale automation so that your teams can focus on Edge AI use-cases and not on infrastructure roll out.

For More Information

To learn more about the Lenovo Open Cloud Automation, contact your Lenovo representative or Business Partner, or visit https://www.lenovo.com/open-cloud-automation.

About Lenovo

Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a US$62 billion revenue global technology powerhouse, ranked #171 in the Fortune Global 500, employing 77,000 people around the world, and serving millions of customers every day in 180 markets. Focused on a bold vision to deliver smarter technology for all, Lenovo is expanding into new growth areas of infrastructure, mobile, solutions and services. This transformation is building a more inclusive, trustworthy, and sustainable digital society for everyone, everywhere.