NetApp Enables Hexaware to Deliver Cloud Services

NetApp India has announced its partnership with IT & BPO services and consulting company, Hexaware Technologies. The partnership will enable Hexaware to deliver its Cloud Service, RAINMAKER. Hexaware will now be able to build a scalable and efficient shared IT Infrastructure for future growth and provide a flexible and easy-to-manage secure multi-tenant storage environment.

Hexaware’s Cloud Service is designed to provide IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS), Infrastructure–as –a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Storage-as-a-Service (SaaS) to users. It will be provided via NetApp’s secure and multi- tenant storage solutions and VMware’s vCloud Director. This is also the first implementation of VMware vCloud Director for cloud services on NetApp storage in India.

Cloud computing is gaining ground rapidly in today’s business landscape and storage is increasingly emerging as the first stop for businesses making their journey into the Cloud.

“There is a major market shift underway with increasing focus on cost control in business. Customers are demanding flexibility and efficiency in their IT infrastructure, and are in turn moving to a shared infrastructure model in order to sustain the change. I congratulate Hexaware on this move, and reiterate NetApp’s commitment to helping Hexaware achieve a successful roll-out to provide secure, flexible and efficient services on cloud,” said Mr. Rajesh Janey, President - India and SAARC, NetApp.

“Business dynamics are changing, to sustain the growth and pace one has to look at flexible, scalable and cost effective business models. Our decision to go ahead with vCloud Director using NetApp storage solutions to build our private cloud is a strategic move to stay in tune with tomorrow’s business needs. We chose NetApp because it is the only organization to offer Secure Multi Tenancy in a shared IT infrastructure model,” said Nataraj.N, Chief Information Officer, Hexaware Technologies Limited.