HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global IT services company, today announced that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Mesosphere, a datacentre infrastructure and container orchestration company. The partnership combines Mesosphere’s Datacentre Operating System (DC/OS) with HCL’s unique Next–Gen IT & Operations capabilities to deliver a unified operational experience and achieve efficient resource utilisation for clients.
“With the rising wave of digitalisation, cloud and automation, the role of IT has changed from managing assets and services to delivering perfect user experiences. 21st Century Enterprise Infrastructure must be prepared for this change to meet the ever evolving business and user expectations,” said Kalyan Kumar, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, HCL Technologies. “Through this partnership, HCL and Mesosphere are uniquely positioned to play a leadership role in the global cloud infrastructure management market. While Mesosphere will be providing best–in–class Enterprise DC/OS technology, HCL will be the global systems integrator for consulting, designing, integrating, building and running solutions for large enterprises.”
“Forces such as cloud computing and containers are driving major changes in IT infrastructure, and are affecting businesses of all sizes in all industries,” said William Freiberg, Chief Operating Officer, Mesosphere. “DC/OS helps users take advantage of these trends, and is already revolutionising operations and application development inside customers’ datacentres and cloud environments. Our partnership with HCL will help us bring these results to a much larger range of companies across the globe.”
Mesosphere is the creator of DC/OS (Datacentre Operating System), an open source technology that is built around Apache Mesos™ and offers the most reliable, scalable and easiest platform for running containers, stateful data systems and everything else that modern applications require. For users, DC/OS powers everything from streaming video to the Internet of Things—simplifying IT operations while delivering the types of services their customers and businesses demand.
HCL’s vision for the 21st Century Enterprise encompass a modern infrastructure, including datacentre infrastructure services that are service–oriented. HCL helps its customers adopt best–in–class next–generation hybrid data centre architectures with strong IT Service Management process automation and service orchestration at the core. This enables enterprises to be lean and agile, creating united experiences for the end users.