HCL Technologies announced it has signed a Global System Integration contract with VMware. This relationship combines VMware virtualization products and services with HCL's proven experience and globally benchmarked capabilities in enterprise IT infrastructure operations and transformation, thereby providing best-of-breed virtualization lifecycle services to global enterprises.

The relationship with VMware will further strengthen HCL's expertise in information lifecycle management as well as desktop and datacenter virtualization and transformation services to help enterprises reduce risk, cut costs and improve IT efficiency.

HCL provides customers with effective and efficient enablement and management of virtualized infrastructure across desktop, network, application and datacenter systems. HCL's services cover the entire virtualization lifecycle, from assessment, architecture and design to implementation, management and transformation. These services combined with VMware virtualization deliver optimal utilization of IT resources, improved IT efficiency, reduced complexity, faster application deployment and enhanced availability, reduced power consumption and waste, increased BCP and DR capability, greater flexibility of the complete IT environment, and lower overall operating costs.

"We welcome HCL into the VMware Global System Integrator program," said Steve Houck, vice president, worldwide channels at VMware. "HCL's expertise in systems integration complements VMware virtualization to provide datacenter solutions that help companies achieve huge savings in time, money and power while becoming more flexible, efficient, and disaster-resilient. We look forward to providing joint solutions and services to meet HCL customers' growing demand for VMware virtualization solutions."

"Our goal is to simplify IT for companies whose priority is controlling costs while responding faster to their end-users requirements," said Anant Gupta, President, HCL Technologies ISD. "To address these objectives, we at HCL leverage a best-of-breed suite of technologies, tools, processes and methodologies that enable our customers to accelerate virtualization, thereby allowing them maximum return on investment and greater efficiency in their IT environment."

Gupta added, "This Global System Integrator relationship with VMware will go a long way to further enhance our offerings in this space, as well as strengthen our skill and expertise base in this area. Our customers can also leverage this arrangement to source VMware licenses from HCL as part of our one-stop, end-to-end lifecycle services."