HCL technologies establishes Google Cloud Business Unit

HCL Technologies recently set up a dedicated business unit for Google Cloud.

For select market verticals, HCL will work with Google Cloud as a preferred enterprise cloud provider. Both HCL and Google intend to accelerate digital transformation for enterprises with Google cloud adoption.

As of now, HCL Technologies has around 1,300 Google Cloud professionals. The company plans to raise the Google cloud specialist workforce to 5000, notes the announcement. The workforce expertise includes containerization, hybrid, and multi-cloud with Anthos, compute, data and analytics, AI and ML, collaboration with G Suite.

Executive Opinion

President & CEO, HCL Technologies, C Vijayakumar, said, "HCL and Google have a deep and long-standing relationship, and this new business unit is a strategic step forward in our partnership. I am confident that the Google Cloud Business Unit will accelerate execution of digital transformation of global organizations as well as incubate new IP and solutions that will redefine the market."

CEO at Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian, said, "The cloud is at the heart of innovation and digital transformation for enterprises, and unlocks new opportunities for them to tackle their most important challenges. Through our partnership with HCL, we can help organizations deploy Google Cloud broadly and at scale, and move their most critical, data-intensive workloads to GCP."

HCL Technologies and Digital Transformation

The join focus of the partnership will be on migrating SAP workloads to GCP, Google Cloud Anthos. Anthos strives to achieve consistency between on-premises, cloud environments and also helps to modernize existing applications. The other focus area would be DevSecOps (DevOps + Security Operations) and Service orchestration.

HCL also plans to set up Google Cloud-specific Cloud Native Labs. According to the announcement, these labs will be in the United States (Dallas), the UK (London), and India (NCR).

Previously, in February, HCL partnered with IBM to accelerate the adoption of the Hybrid Cloud Strategy for its enterprise customers. In October, HCL Technologies was selected as the supplier for the digital transformation and IT services for the Volvo Cars.