India’s fifth largest IT services exporter HCL Technologies (HCL), has signed a Global System Integration contract with VMware, to offer virtualization lifecycle services to its customers.

HCL Technologies provides customers with effective and efficient enablement and management of virtualized infrastructure across desktop, network, application and datacenter systems. HCL's services cover the entire virtualization lifecycle, from assessment, architecture, and design to implementation, management and transformation.

These services combined with VMware virtualization deliver optimal utilization of IT resources, improved IT efficiency, reduced complexity, faster application deployment and enhanced availability, reduced power consumption and waste, increased BCP and DR capability, greater flexibility of the complete IT environment, and lower overall operating costs.

VMware Inc. is a software developer and a global leader in the virtualization market. It provides a complete virtualized set of hardware to the guest operating system.

HCL's relationship with VMware will further strengthen its expertise in information lifecycle management as well as desktop and datacenter virtualization and transformation services to help enterprises reduce risk, cut costs and improve IT efficiency.