HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL), India's leading global IT services company, today announced that it had completed acquisition of a 35,000 square feet data center from a Fortune 500 Organization in Parsippany, New Jersey.

The move aligns with company's strategy to increase its global footprint and meet growing customer demand for eco-friendly, advanced, end-to-end services including near-shore Co-location Solutions and Services, Cloud Computing, Business Continuity and Mainframe Management Services.

HCL took over this data center from a Fortune 500 enterprise in October, 2008 and upgraded the technology and service landscape, using its state of the art consolidation, virtualization, green computing and reference architectures including open systems and mainframes. This resulted in higher serviceability, better end user application response times and significant cost savings over the last 10 months.

Sources reported that HCL will further upgrade this facility to a Tier III equivalent Next Generation data center by deploying best-of-breed eco-friendly technologies from leading solution/technology vendors and acquiring world class certifications.

The company plans to hire more than 100 local US workers for this state of the art facility.