Wharton, 2015 - Guest Lecture by Sandeep Kishore on Digitalization. Sandeep Kishore is Corporate Vice President and Global Head of Life Sciences Healthcare and Public Services at HCL Technologies. HCL Technologies, a leading global IT services company, was named the winner of a Diamond award by the IT Services Marketing Association (ITSMA), the leading marketing association for technology, communications and professional services providers. Photo courtesy of HCL

Armonk, NY, USA and Bangalore, India - November 12, 2015

IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) and HCL Technologies (HCL) a global IT service provider today announced a strategic partnership to jointly build hybrid cloud solutions to help enterprises drive their digital transformations.

HCL will use Bluemix, IBM’s Cloud platform to build applications and solutions in the areas of Unified Service Management and Internet of Things (IoT).

Photo courtesy of HCL

The Unified Service Management offering will help clients manage the most demanding and complex service delivery environments.

The IoT solutions will enable clients to collect and exchange data from a network of physical objects embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and connectivity.

HCL will also use IBM Cloud’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), SoftLayer, to offer cloud-based solutions to its clients.

IBM Senior Vice President Bob Picciano (left) joins The Weather Company Chairman & CEO David Kenny (right) at the IBM Insight Conference in Las Vegas. IBM has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire The Weather Company’s B2B, mobile and cloud-based web properties, including WSI, weather.com, Weather Underground and The Weather Company brand. The planned acquisition would bring together IBM’s powerful cognitive and analytics platform and The Weather Company’s dynamic cloud data platform, which powers the fourth most-used mobile app daily in the United States and handles 26 billion inquiries to its cloud-based services each day. Photo courtesy of IBM

HCL will be able to leverage the full-range of SoftLayer infrastructure services, including bare metal servers, virtual servers, storage, security services and networking in addressing the needs of their clients.

Leveraging the HCL MyCloud and DryICE automation and orchestration platforms, HCL plans to offer highly scalable cloud environments, including IaaS solutions in dedicated, as well as shared models, for enterprise customers.

Kalyan Kumar, Senior Vice President and Chief Technologist – ITO, HCL Technologies. Photo courtesy of HCL

“The 21st Century enterprises are looking for highly flexible and scalable IT/technology solutions that enable them to compete amidst changing market dynamics and customer expectations. IBM’s cloud offerings are based on open platforms and provide enterprise grade security and reliability that are essential for our clients,” said Kalyan Kumar, Senior Vice President and Chief Technologist – ITO, HCL Technologies.
“By combining IBM’s Bluemix and Softlayer platforms with HCL’s unique MyCloud orchestration platform and global system integration expertise we will be able to transform businesses through user centric applications on Bluemix which will enable enhanced customer engagement delivering efficiencies and tangible business outcomes.”

Robert J. LeBlanc, Senior Vice President, IBM Cloud. Photo courtesy of IBM

“Cloud has become the new normal in helping companies digitally transform their business operations.” said Robert LeBlanc, Senior Vice President, IBM Cloud.
“It is imperative that enterprises adapt their strategies to align with this shift. As HCL gears its clients toward digital transformations, IBM Cloud will play an instrumental role as part of its open hybrid cloud technologies, solutions and services."

Dr. Christopher Walsh, Chief of Genetics at Boston Children's Hospital explores the IBM Watson for Genomics Dashboard. IBM and Boston Children's Hospital announced a new collaboration that aims to help clinicians identify potential diagnosis and treatment options for children with rare diseases using genomic data and cognitive technology. Photo courtesy of IBM / Boston Children's Hospital

Bluemix, launched in 2014 with a $1 billion investment, has quickly risen to become the largest Cloud Foundry deployment in the world, providing a developer-friendly of more than 120 tools and software services that combines the most prominent open-source, IBM and third-party technologies.

Ernie Hu, General Manager for Cloud and Software, IBM Greater China Group, and Ning Qi, Executive Vice President of 21Vianet Group, ink a deal to bring IBM's Bluemix Cloud Platform to China Photo courtesy of IBM

HCL offers end-to-end cloud lifecycle management and orchestration platform to enterprises through HCL MyCloud to efficiently manage and control their hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Robert Webb, Etihad Airways’ Chief Information and Technology Officer; and Martin Jetter, Senior Vice President, IBM Global Technology Services; sign $700M technology cloud, services agreement. Photo courtesy of IBM

HCL Mycloud has an easy-to-use interface to help provision, monitor, manage infrastructure and enable metering and chargeback on the cloud.


About IBM Cloud

For more information on IBM Cloud visit:
www.ibm.com/cloud-computing  


About HCL Technologies

HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company working with clients in areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses.

Since its emergence on global landscape after its IPO in 1999 and listing in 2000, HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries, today operates out of 31 countries and has consolidated revenues of US$ 6.1 billion, as on 30th September 2015 (on LTM basis).

HCL focuses on 'transformational outsourcing', underlined by innovation and value creation, offering an integrated portfolio of services including Enterprise Digitalization, Internet of Things, Engineering Services Outsourcing and Next Generation IT Outsourcing that focuses on transformation-led infrastructure services, applications services and business services.

HCL leverages its extensive global delivery capabilities and integrated innovation labs across the world to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Media, Publishing & Entertainment, Retail & CPG, Life sciences & Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Energy & Utilities, Travel,  Transportation & Logistics and Government.

With 105,000+ professionals from diverse nationalities, HCL Technologies focuses on creating real value for customers by taking ‘Relationships Beyond the Contract’.

For more information, please visit www.hcltech.com  


Contacts information

Mike Zimmerman
IBM Media Relations
914-766-4935
mrzimmerman@us.ibm.com  

Anushri Dubey
IBM Media Relations, India
+918095626117
anusdube@in.ibm.com  



Robert J. LeBlanc

Senior Vice President, IBM Cloud

Robert LeBlanc is Senior Vice President, IBM Cloud. In this role, he has global responsibility for IBM’s industry leading cloud portfolio of technology and services, including strategy, product design, offering development, marketing, sales, and service.

Mr. LeBlanc also chairs IBM’s Technology Team, a senior executive team responsible for setting IBM’s technology agenda.

Robert J. LeBlanc Photo courtesy of IBM

Previously, Mr. LeBlanc served as Senior Vice President, IBM Software and Cloud Solutions Group, managing the strategy, development, and delivery of IBM’s industry leading middleware and software solutions portfolio.

Other senior leadership roles include Senior Vice President, Middleware Software; General Manager, Worldwide Software Sales; General Manager, Application and Infrastructure Management; and General Manager, Tivoli.

Since joining IBM in 1981, Mr. LeBlanc has held a number of technical, strategy, and sales leadership positions throughout the company’s Software, Services, and Systems groups.

Mr. LeBlanc holds a BSC in Computer Science and an MBA from the University of Toronto.


Sources:

IBM

http://www-03.ibm.com/  

HCL Technologies

http://www.hcltech.com/  



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