Overview

HCL is a reputed engineering and IT services provider in the high-growth storage industry. Having executed complex full and partial lifecycle product engineering projects for fortune 500 storage companies, we are a single source of expertise in software, firmware, testing, hardware, and applications, having dedicated groups in each of the areas. We have more than 350 people dedicated to the storage practice, who work on various areas within the storage practice like firmware, software, testing etc.

Our first major engagement in this industry was a project on a firmware sustenance for a leading supplier of SAN interconnect and management solutions. This long-term partnership has now been scaled up significantly and we have taken complete ownership for firmware-sustaining releases for this company.

HCL has strategic partnerships with leading service providers and industry bodies like SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association), Veritas, VeriTest, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM and Mercury, we have proven leadership skills in software development, hardware (ASIC/FPGA/board) development, testing, interoperability, sustaining, tech-support, and product documentation.

At HCL, we also provide storage companies with enterprise IT solutions, including Package Implementation, IT Infrastructure Management, and Business Process Outsourcing services. Our services address many of the issues that currently confront the storage industry, such as the challenge of managing growth and meeting capacity needs, managing storage assets, and complex infrastructure.

HCL brings you comprehensive product solution propositions specifically for storage products and technology solutions. HCL offers "An ODM-Like Offering without ODM Risks", including End-to-end product strategy, engineering, ownership and support. Click here to view the brochure on Rainbow for Storage: Full spectrum product solutions.

• Single source of expertise in Hardware, Firmware, Software, Applications, with dedicated groups in each of the areas
• Expertise – Host side stacks, Network entities, Storage devices
• Allied services teams - QA, Product Documentation, Technical support, Help desk services
• Lower R&D cost in developing next generation products
• Re-usable components

• Board Design, Development, Validation, Fabrication, Manufacturing
• ASIC, FPGA Design and Verification
• Silicon IPs
• Full System Design & Development, including Mechanical, Hardware, Firmware, System and Application Software
• OS expertise - Development and Sustenance Engg. ; Kernel, File System, System
• Management software, Storage protocol stacks, Simulation tools, Memory management
• Device Drivers, Protocols, Diagnostics
• Migration, Testing, Porting
• Inter-Operability for product vendors