HCLTech's Utility for Everything (U4X): Pioneering Digital Transformation through Flexible Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS)
In today's ever-evolving technology landscape, the most resilient businesses rely on the availability of agile and need-based consumption models for their IT spending. With the advent of the 'everything-as-a-service' (XaaS) model in this context, organizations are now looking to digitally transform by leveraging the best of both cloud and on-premises infrastructure models that adhere to flexible consumption principles.
HCLTech's U4X model delivers on both. It offers an XaaS platform for enterprises of all scales that ensure cloud-like flexibility using a pay-per-use model with infrastructure, software and services that can be used for a variety of use cases and business needs across the organization.
With U4X, you pay for only the compute, storage, security and network resources your business consumes, empowering you to match your expenditures with actual usages for greater operational cost efficiencies. It also combines the agility and scalability of the cloud with the control, performance and security of on-prem. It's truly the best of all worlds.
Framework
Standard definitions:
Deployed capacity
Total capacity/volume/nodes provisioned. This combines Committed and Variable Capacity
Committed capacity
Min. base commit to start the subscription on Day 1. Billing happens on Committed capacity/volume/nodes
Variable capacity
The capacity/volume/nodes provisioned to provide flexibility up to 50% to the customer
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Solutions and Services
Storage (STaaS)
For primary storage requirements as well as cold or backup tiering of data, STaaS delivers cloud procurement and remote storage management for On-premise, co-located, or a hybrid cloud environment
Compute (CaaS)
Node based pay-per-use model that run applications and workloads in highly adaptable and scalable manner
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCIaaS)
Fully integrated and scalable Hyperconverged infrastructure solution that combines storage, compute, networking and management
Backup (BaaS)
Data protection and recovery with scalability, reliability, cost efficiency and cyber resiliency solution that helps protect the data in case of malicious-attack, human-caused event, data corruption, accidental deletion of data, hardware or software failure, etc., making data management a lot easier
MeterOps
A managed metering and monitoring offering for Hybrid Cloud Storage and Backup that helps customers offload the entire design, deployment, and management of storage resource management to HCLTech
Cost Savings
No upfront investment and no cost incurred on Unutilized assets
Time savings
No hassles for immediate asset purchase in case of sudden demand
Actual usage
Billing happens as per actual resource utilization
Benefits
Our U4X solution revolutionizes organizational efficiency by eliminating capital investments, reducing outflows, enhancing flexibility, and enabling next-gen data centers for a true hybrid cloud experience.
Eliminates large capital investments, financial risks and reduces total cost of ownership through a shift to an OpEx model
Reduces the traditional outflows on Annual Maintenance Contract (AMC) and warranties
Improved turnaround time for new business initiatives with the elimination of long procurement cycles
Flexibility to scale up and down as needed
Increased productivity and efficiency with technology advancements
Ease of contract termination and customizable options
Ability to choose and customize workload-based resources
Enables next-gen data centers equipped to deliver true hybrid cloud experiences
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Frequently Asked Questions about U4X (Utility for Everything) Solutions
U4X (Utility for Everything) is HCLTECH’s offering to deliver technology, infrastructure, software, services effectively the full IT stack in an XaaS (Anything-as-a-Service) consumption model.
Instead of fixed contracts or CAPEX, U4X shifts IT consumption to a utility model scaling up/down, paying only for what’s used, with elastic capacity.
Through transparent metering, usage tracking, showback/chargeback mechanisms, dashboards and predictable invoicing.
By embedding security controls at every layer, isolation per tenant/workload, compliance enforcement, encryption, identity management and auditability.
Workloads with variable or seasonal demand, startups scaling fast, short-term projects, dev/test environments, bursts or those seeking OPEX models.
Compute, storage, network, software, application services, security, backups all delivered as a service, with pay-per-use pricing.
Yes legacy infrastructure, software and services can be onboarded, virtualized and delivered under U4X models over time.
Standard SLAs for availability, performance and support are defined as part of the service agreement; higher-tier options available for critical workloads.
No, U4X is designed for transparency. Any additional costs (data egress, peak usage, optional features) are clearly defined upfront.
OPEX conversion, cost predictability, scalability, reduced overhead, faster time to market, flexibility and simplified IT consumption.