HCLTech and Google Cloud announced a
significant expansion of their long-standing partnership, with new
capabilities and service offerings to expedite enterprise migration to
Google Cloud.
HCLTech, a strategic partner of Google Cloud, formed the dedicated Google Cloud Ecosystem Unit in 2019 to
accelerate enterprise cloud adoption by helping enterprise customers
plan and execute large-scale migrations. The two companies are now
expanding their partnership to significantly scale HCLTech's capacity to
support digital transformation and deliver critical migration, legacy
system modernizations and professional services for enterprise
customers.
The
partnership will enable two new offerings to help enterprise customers
migrate to Google Cloud more quickly and gain value from their cloud
investments sooner. The new Google Cloud Global Migration and
Modernization Factory-within HCLTech Google Cloud Ecosystem Unit-will
combine experts, unique IP, migration frameworks and automation tools to
help businesses bring critical workloads into Google Cloud faster,
while enhancing their cybersecurity posture and ensuring compliance with
evolving regulations. In addition, a new, dedicated HCLTech Cloud
Acceleration Team will further speed customers' time-to-value with
Google Cloud products and solutions by providing architectural expertise
and unlocking powerful insights from enterprise data.
HCLTech
will train up to 18,000 technology and consulting professionals on
Google Cloud, significantly increasing its ability to accelerate digital
transformations globally with Google Cloud infrastructure, products and
solutions.
"The
majority of enterprises today are investing aggressively in cloud
technology to build responsive, scalable and resilient digital-first
business models. Our collaboration with Google Cloud has helped us
address this market with compelling joint propositions. I am excited to
see this partnership further expand to offer accelerated solutions for
our enterprise clients to significantly scale their digital
transformation enabled by cloud," said C Vijayakumar, CEO & Managing
Director, HCLTech.
"Many
of the world's largest enterprises are turning to Google Cloud to
modernize their core infrastructures, power their digital
transformations and launch entirely new digital businesses," said Thomas
Kurian, CEO at Google Cloud. "This announcement represents a
significant commitment from both Google Cloud and HCLTech to provide
enterprises with the services, industry expertise and technologies they
need to accelerate their cloud agendas and to create business value from
Google Cloud's capabilities in artificial intelligence, machine
learning, and analytics."
Google
Cloud will continue to utilize HCLTech expertise as part of its push to
deliver critical migration and managed services for enterprise
customers. The partnership has already supported digital transformations
at a number of the world's largest and most impactful organizations.
With the expanded Google Cloud Ecosystem Unit, HCLTech will deliver new,
domain-led services offerings harnessing CloudSMART-a portfolio of
industry-focused offerings for Google and Cloud Native Labs.
HCLTech
will also take a Google Cloud-first approach for data, analytics and
artificial intelligence (AI) projects in key industry segments including
retail and consumer packaged goods (CPGs), financial services, and
healthcare and life sciences. These segments reflect the growing
customer demand for Google Cloud products and capabilities in these
critical areas. The company offers a cloud-focused ecosystem and product
innovation strategy that is uniquely positioned to help customers
actualize their cloud agendas and evolve into digital enterprises.