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India announced its
partnership 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
utilize industry-leading storage virtualization 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 industry-standard storage solutions from NetApp, HCL
O'zone will now be able to provide a plethora of cloud services
with multi-tenancy enablement.
“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 VP, 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.
With this partnership, HCL
O'zone will be a more advanced platform to tackle high complexity
environments with better storage utilization. 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.