HCLTech to train 18,000 tech and consulting professionals on Google Cloud

Indian IT services company HCLTech has announced that it will train up to 18,000 technology and consulting professionals on Google Cloud and help the cloud arm of Google to expand its enterprise customer base. 

HCLTech will also offer a new platform called Google Cloud Migration and Modernization Factory to its customers. Through this platform, Google will provide expertise, unique IP, migration frameworks, and automation tools to help enterprises migrate their workloads to its cloud platforms in a secure and compliant manner. 

The service will be provided by Google Cloud as part of the HCLTech Google Cloud Ecosystem Unit, set up in 2019 to accelerate cloud adoption among enterprises. 

Further, HCLTech said that its Cloud Acceleration Team will also help its customers achieve time-to-value (time taken to finish a project) with Google Cloud products and solutions by providing them with architectural expertise and insights using data analytics.

The IT services company also said that it will take a “Google Cloud-first approach” for data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) projects in industries such as healthcare, finance, life sciences, retail, and consumer packaged goods. According to HCLTech, there is a growing demand for Google’s Cloud products in these industries. 

“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,” C Vijayakumar, chief executive, and managing director, HCLTech said in a statement. 

This will also help HCLTech scale its capability to support digital transformation projects and modernization of legacy systems. 

Thomas Kurian, chief executive of Google Cloud, also said that with this partnership, his company and HCLTech will provide enterprises with the industry expertise and technologies that will help them accelerate their migration to the cloud and to derive business value from Google Cloud’s capabilities in AI, ML and data analytics. 

According to an April report by Statista, Amazon’s cloud arm AWS with a 33% market share is the leading vendor in the cloud infrastructure services market as of Q1 2022. Microsoft Azure is the second leading vendor with a 21% market share followed by Google Cloud, which controls only 8% of the market.