SmartPaaS: Your Gateway to Simplified Multicloud PaaS Management
Enterprises are turning to public cloud platforms for innovation, speed and scale — all to power digital and growth initiatives. Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is fast becoming the preferred route for migrating existing applications or building next-generation solutions. By leveraging cloud native technologies like containers, Kubernetes and microservices, PaaS solutions accelerate deployment, increase efficiency and drive down costs.
We believe SmartPaaS delivers the speed and agility needed to become a digital enterprise. Our experience helps you maximize the benefits of multicloud PaaS and cloud native technologies.
Our SmartPaaS offerings move you forward with PaaS. SmartPaaS delivers hybrid cloud and multicloud transformation services that simplify and standardize the adoption and consumption of PaaS. We cover cloud native PaaS, middleware, data analytics platforms and workload modernization for enterprise clients. With SmartPaaS, you get comprehensive hybrid and multicloud solutions that make enterprise application PaaS adoption straightforward and efficient.
What SmartPaaS Services Can Do for You
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Unlock the Real Value of Cloud with a Smarter Alternative to IaaS
SmartPaaS has enabled our enterprise clients to gain a competitive advantage with a platform that promotes faster innovation, increased productivity and an exceptional customer experience.
Gain unmatched velocity and efficiency
Leverage the HCLTech ePACE accelerator for fully automated platform provisioning, integrations and lifecycle management. ePACE reduces project timelines by 80% faster platform provisioning compared to manual processes.
Reduce technology debt
Standardize and consolidate your existing landscape, then modernize to next-generation platforms. That means less technology debt and more of your IT budget going toward innovation — not just maintaining legacy systems.
Ensure compliance and security
Pre-validated, security-hardened Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) blueprints and policy-as-code help ensure every SmartPaaS solution and cloud service is provisioned with uniform standards.
Increase productivity
Self-service, with a catalog of platform services integrated with ITSM, reduces wait times and allows development teams to focus on core business priorities.
Maximize the value of cloud migrations
Our CloudSMART migration factory enables efficient, scaled application migration to PaaS — not just simple lift-and-shift approaches.
Precisely estimate costs
SmartPaaS offerings include flexible commercial models such as fixed budget, RU-based and T&M, giving you transparency and accurate cost-benefit analysis of PaaS solutions and services.
Achieve sustainable growth
Dynamic scalability of SmartPaaS solutions, with scale-to-zero capabilities during no-load conditions, optimizes cloud costs and energy consumption. Containerized workloads deliver higher infrastructure efficiency than virtual machines.
What Makes Us Different
HCLTech Cloud Native Labs
Our centers of innovation enable continuous experimentation and evaluation of cloud native technologies through proof-of-concept, MVP and pilot programs. You're welcome to visit our cloud native labs in London, New York, Frisco and Noida to see how cloud native technologies can accelerate your modernization journey.
CNCF Platinum Member
Our strong association with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) enables us to leverage the cloud native community and contribute to projects that solve complex business challenges using open-source solutions.
Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP)
KCSP certification demonstrates our expertise in Kubernetes consulting, professional services and training for organizations adopting Kubernetes.
Partnership ecosystem
Jointly engineered solutions and validated architectures for leading SmartPaaS solutions such as Microsoft Azure AKS and Azure ARC, AWS EKS and EKS-Anywhere, Red Hat OpenShift, Google Anthos, VMware Tanzu and IBM Cloud Pak.
CloudSMART migration factory
HCLTech CloudSMART migration factory is an organizational structure and set of processes designed for migrating enterprise applications. It helps you build a scaled team with the right skills and understanding of your organization, as well as set clearly defined goals that are closely measured throughout the program lifecycle.
Partner Ecosystem
Resources
Explore HCLTech's ePACE, an automation accelerator for multi-hybrid cloud use cases, to scale cloud transformation initiatives and maximize cloud value. Download the flyer now.
SmartPaaS is a framework for enterprise digital transformation based on agile principles & quick PaaS adoption.
Frequently Asked Questions about SmartPaaS
SmartPaaS is our managed platform-as-a-service framework that empowers enterprises to adopt, manage and optimize PaaS solutions across any cloud environment. With deep experience in multicloud PaaS, we simplify hybrid cloud transformation and provide a unified approach to governance, security and operational efficiency for enterprise application PaaS.
Our managed service covers the full PaaS lifecycle: automated provisioning, patching, scaling, performance management, security, backup and recovery, upgrades, monitoring and cost optimization. We handle the complexity, allowing clients to focus on innovation, knowing their platforms are managed by experienced professionals with proven expertise.
Reliability is built into SmartPaaS through high-availability architectures, automated failover, proactive monitoring and self-healing mechanisms. We back this with robust SLAs and proven operational processes, drawing on years of experience to help clients achieve consistent uptime and business continuity across all supported platforms.
We implement policy-as-code, role-based access controls, audit logging and automated compliance checks tailored to enterprise standards. With SmartPaaS, clients benefit from continuous alignment with regulatory and security requirements, leveraging our expertise to maintain strong governance across their multicloud networking and PaaS environments.
SmartPaaS is purpose-built for hybrid and multicloud transformation. We offer unified management, seamless workload portability and integrated networking across environments. Our advisory, migration and modernization services help clients accelerate their journey, reduce complexity and achieve consistent enterprise application PaaS delivery wherever their business needs demand.
We designed SmartPaaS to support all major public clouds—AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform—as well as leading private and hybrid platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift, VMware Tanzu, and IBM Cloud Pak. This flexibility ensures clients can leverage the best-fit environment for their workloads and multicloud transformation goals.
We use abstraction layers, open standards and orchestration tools to provide portability and interoperability across clouds. Our approach enables clients to seamlessly move workloads between providers, thereby avoiding proprietary dependencies and ensuring freedom of choice as their multicloud PaaS strategies evolve.
Cloud native PaaS offerings differ widely in APIs, management tools and compliance controls. Our dedicated management layer standardizes operations, governance and security across environments, reducing complexity and risk. This unified approach is crucial for organizations seeking to adopt efficient and consistent multicloud PaaS solutions, as well as to drive hybrid cloud transformation.
Absolutely. We have extensive experience migrating, refactoring and modernizing existing PaaS workloads—whether containerized, re-platformed or integrated with new data analytics platforms. Our proven methodologies ensure a seamless transition into the SmartPaaS framework, promoting greater agility and operational efficiency.
Unlike native PaaS offerings tied to a single cloud, SmartPaaS provides unified operations, cross-cloud governance, workload portability and integrated observability across platforms. Our managed service and deep partner ecosystem give clients the flexibility, control and support needed for true multicloud PaaS success.