HCLTech uses Red Hat OpenShift to speed up enterprise cloud deployment

Indian IT services provider HCL Technologies on Monday launched SmartPaaS, a platform-as-a-service offering in collaboration with open-source provider Red Hat to help enterprises speed up their cloud deployment effort. The IT firm has leveraged Red Hat OpenShift, a container application development platform from Red Hat for helping businesses develop and deploy applications across hybrid and multicloud environments. 

Containers are lightweight packages of application code that allow applications to be more rapidly deployed, patched, or scaled. Better application development.

Steve Erdman, Global Vice President, Services & Systems Integrator Partners, Red Hat, said, “By running HCLTech’s SmartPaaS on Red Hat OpenShift, customers can further extend applications wherever necessary in order to more effectively modernise operations and achieve better business outcomes.”

In other words, the platform would support faster innovation cycles, leading to greater productivity. The offering includes end-to-end consulting, implementation and integration services.

Red Hat acquired by tech major IBM in June 2019, has a long-standing collaboration with HCL Tech. For example, in May last year, HCL Technologies Ltd. launched a new initiative to do exactly that.

The company announced the Kubernetes Migration Platform, or KMP, an automated solution that helps migrate workloads from legacy on-premises systems and Cloud Foundry environments to Kubernetes platforms.

Rampal Singh, vice president and head, hybrid cloud services, HCLTech said that SmartPaaS will "help enterprises optimise resources and technology costs".

In March, HCL Tech partnered with Microsoft’s quantum cloud computing service, Azure Quantum. The IT provider said collaboration will help offer businesses cloud-based quantum computing services to its clients, by using Microsoft’s platform as the technology stack. The services, it said, would be provided through HCLTech’s Q-Labs, which has already been among one of Microsoft’s partners to offer Azure Quantum credits.

In April this year, HCL Technologies reported a consolidated net profit of ₹3,983 crore for the quarter ended March 2023. This is an increase of 11% from ₹3,593 crore clocked in the corresponding period of last year. Revenue from operations rose 18% to ₹26,606 crore for the fourth quarter under review, compared with ₹22,597 crore in the same period last year.