HCL Infosystems And NetApp Partner To Offer Storage-Efficient Cloud Services

NetApp India has partnered with HCL Infosystems to provide flexible, scalable and easy-to-manage secure multi-tenant storage environment for HCL Infosystems’ O’zone Cloud Services. The partnership will help deliver IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) and provide OPEX-based options for IT infrastructure to end-customers.

HCL Infosystems will utilise storage virtualisation solutions from NetApp and work with NetApp to leverage its global experience in producticising features like SnapShot, FlexClone, Deduplication and Thin Provisioning for innovative Cloud Services for the Indian market.

With this partnership, HCL O’zone will be a more advanced platform to tackle high complexity environments with better storage utilisation. The storage efficiency of the platform will increase significantly and play an important role in reducing total storage requirements. This will enable HCL Infosystems to offer higher SLAs on the O’zone Cloud offering to customers at a lower price.

“Exemplifying its commitment to the progressive changes in technology, HCL Infosystems is dedicated towards offering the best-in-class industry practices to the customers. Our association with NetApp will help us build a robust cloud infrastructure with efficient storage platform and ease of management, well integrated with various technology partners,” said George Paul, Executive Vice-President, HCL Infosystems.

“HCL Infosystems’ decision to leverage NetApp solutions to deliver an easy-to-manage, secure and scalable cloud solution that delivers unparalleled value to customers is the result of our strategic investments in cloud enabling solutions and also our continued commitment to delivering high ROI to customers. As awareness and interest in the cloud increases among enterprises and emerging segments, it is the responsibility of industry leaders to be able to deliver to this requirement in a sustainable manner– and we are convinced that HCL Infosystems’ decision to partner with NetApp will play an important role in the way customers approach and deploy cloud solutions in India,” said Rajesh Janey, President India and SAARC, NetApp.