HCL, IBM in tie-up to push hybrid cloud

Bangalore: India’s third largest IT player HCL Technologies has entered into a collaboration with IBM to help advance the hybrid cloud journeys of organizations worldwide.

HCL on Friday 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 native software development services – all of which are being extended to include the IBM Cloud offerings.

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.

“HCL will provide the 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, Corporate VP and CTO, HCL.