 "HCL Infosystems, VMware Partner For On-Demand Cloud Services")
VMware has announced a strategic relationship with HCL Infosystems. The partnership will deliver on-demand cloud services to Indian customers with the recently launched HCL O’zone on the industry-leading VMware’s vSphere 4 platform.
HCL Infosystems will collaborate with VMware under the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), designed to provide on-demand cloud services. The company will be using VMware software licenses on a monthly ‘pay as you go’ basis. HCL Infosystems had recently announced an end to end cloud based computing solution service called HCL O’zone, which in collaboration with VMware will deliver benefits to both enterprise and mid size organisations in India through benefits like reduced investments, increased data security, increased operational and performance efficiency, green computing, increased power savings and disaster recovery.
“With our partnership with VMware, we intend to offer a scalable, reliable and efficient external IT infrastructure for our customers. Our cloud solutions bring out the benefits for our customers with reduced fixed costs and predictable operational expenses for business, and increased adaptability in the dynamic market environment. This collaboration is aimed at helping large, mid-sized and SMB companies to leverage cloud computing technologies to drive significant business efficiencies through our best-in-class features like scalability, cost performance, proven reliability and open standards,” said George Paul, Executive Vice-President, HCL Infosystems.
This partnership will help HCL address the increasing demand for on-demand computing in India, which is one of the fastest growing cloud computing markets in the Asia Pacific region.
“With over three decades of expertise in technology solutions, HCL Infosystems has the potential to become a transformation partner for Indian businesses preparing for their journey in the cloud computing space. VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP) is a framework that allows our partners like HCL Infosystems to leverage VMware’s industry leading solutions in a way that aligns with their business model. This creates new opportunities for such providers to offer solutions, applications and services for their customers and sets the foundation for greater profitability and success,” said T Srinivasan, Managing Director, VMware India & SAARC.