INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
HCL and IBM collaborate
to accelerate clients’ hybrid
cloud journey
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H
CL Technologies (HCL), a global
technology company, has
announced a collaboration with IBM
designed to help advance the hybrid cloud
journeys of organisations worldwide.
HCL announced new re-platforming and
refactoring services to enable enterprises
to build and migrate applications to IBM
Cloud Private from within the company’s
HCL Cloud Native Labs. The services will be
orchestrated and available from HCL’s Cloud
Native Labs in London, New York and Noida,
later this year.
HCL offerings include cloud strategy
planning, application transformation, cloud-
native cultural transformation, proof of
concept building and next-generation cloud-
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native software development services – all of
which are being extended to include the IBM
Cloud offerings.
Possible and see where ICP/IBM hybrid cloud
can enable their cloud-native journey.
Additionally, HCL will offer services to help
migrate ISV solutions to IBM Cloud. Finally,
HCL and IBM plan to collaborate to assist
clients in building joint solutions that include
IBM AI capabilities. “The HCL Cloud Native Labs would become
a single location where the complete IBM
tooling and methodologies come together
and offer the customer a unified cloud
enablement journey based on the full set of
IBM capabilities,” said Kumar.
“HCL will provide the necessary services to
enable a customer’s cloud native journey
covering portfolio assessment, platform
design/build, applications transformation,
software engineering and platform operations,
which makes this collaboration significant,”
said Kalyan Kumar, HCL Corporate Vice
President and CTO. “The HCL teams will now
help customers to understand the Art of the “Application and Platform Transformation is
a critical entry point for organisations on their
hybrid cloud journey, yet we see that only few
enterprise workloads have been modernised
to date,” said Denis Kennelly, General
Manager for IBM Hybrid Cloud Integration.
He added that the combined solution will
enable clients to accelerate their journey to
the cloud and drive true transformation. n
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