VMware partners with HCL Infosystems

VMware announced a partnership with HCL Infosystems. The tie-up will deliver
on-demand cloud services to Indian customers with the recently launched HCL
O'zone on the industry-leading VMware's vSphere 4 platform. HCL Infosystems will
collaborate with VMware under the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), which
is designed to provide on-demand cloud services. The company will be using
VMware software licenses on a monthly 'pay-as-you-go' basis. HCL Infosystems had
recently announced an end-to-end cloud-based computing solution service called
HCL O'zone for its customers, which in collaboration with VMware will deliver
benefits to both enterprise and mid-size organizations in India through benefits
like reduced investments, increased data security, increased operational and
performance efficiency, green computing, increased power savings and disaster
recovery.

George Paul, Executive VP, HCL Infosystems said, "With our partnership with
VMware, we intend to offer a scalable, reliable and efficient external IT
infrastructure for our customers. Our cloud solutions bring out the benefits for
our customers with reduced fixed costs and predictable operational expenses for
business, and increased adaptability in the dynamic market environment. This
collaboration is aimed at helping large, mid-sized and SMB companies to leverage
cloud computing technologies to drive significant business efficiencies through
our best-in-class features like scalability, cost performance, proven
reliability and open standards." HCL Infosystem will revolutionize the existing
cloud framework with its new IaaS and SaaS platforms with HCL O'zone.

T Srinivasan, MD, VMware, India and SAARC said, "HCL Infosystems has the
potential to become a transformation partner for Indian businesses preparing for
their journey in the cloud computing space. VSPP is a framework that allows our
partners, like HCL Infosystems, to leverage VMware's industry leading solutions
in a way that aligns with their business model. This creates new opportunities
for such providers to offer solutions, applications and services for their
customers."