Noida, India- December 16, 2019: HCL Technologies and Intel Corporation have announced a collaboration to build a “future-ready reference architecture” for Digital Technology Platform solutions to accelerate their customers’ digital journeys, including data-center management, cloud native, software-defined networks, artificial intelligence, and the digital workplace.

Drawing on each other’s strengths, HCL and Intel will combine cutting-edge Intel® technologies with HCL’s Digital Technology Platform expertise. Together, the companies are investing in various technology roadmaps where HCL will harness Intel’s comprehensive product portfolio and Intel will leverage HCL’s experience in application and enterprise architecture.

The new platform solutions will meet the growing demands of customers globally, including enterprises, governments, cloud/SaaS players, and communications service providers. End digital customers can expect the latest technology advancements and optimizations, architectures to be deployed by HCL first, advancing their digital transformation.

As part of the collaboration, HCL and Intel are investing in Centers of Excellence in the US, the UK, and India. These CoEs will be hubs to test and validate new Digital Technology Platform solutions and best-in-class architectures to meet customers’ workload-intensive demands. In addition, HCL and Intel will design future-ready architectures to help customers build agile and cost-effective infrastructure through software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), and software-defined infrastructure (SDI). This will address industry-specific challenges to optimize costs, improve productivity, and increase revenue for customers.