Tuesday, June 25, 2013

HCL Infosystems partners with Sanovi to offer Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)

HCL Infosystems partners with Sanovi to offer Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
HCL Infosystems Ltd, India’s premier Services and ICT Systems Integration, Distribution and Hardware Company, has today announced its partnership with Sanovi Technologies, the market leader in Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) solutions, to offer Disaster Recovery services to Indian Enterprises. With this engagement, Sanovi becomes a HCL Blu Enterprise Cloud partner as the technology provider for DR Management solutions. The Disaster Recovery as a Service powered by Sanovi Cloud DRM (Disaster Recovery Management) on the HCL Blu Enterprise Cloud platform will be available to organizations across the country to meet their business objectives.

The partnership will enable large, medium and small enterprises be Disaster-proof through real-time monitoring, automated IT Disaster Recovery Processes and comprehensive reporting. The Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) will be available on HCL Blu Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure which includes operations related to server, network and database installation, management and monitoring. The service is not only for customers whose primary data center is hosted with HCL Infosystems but also for others who have their primary data centers in-house or with other data center providers. Customers who have both virtual as well as physical servers can avail of this service. Sanovi and HCL Infosystems will collaborate in joint go-to-market initiatives, marketing and promotional efforts as well as in training.

Speaking on the occasion, Neeraj Jaitley, President - Enterprise Solutions, HCL Infosystems Ltd. said, “We are delighted to partner with Sanovi to offer a very critical service for Indian and Global businesses. Organizations are increasingly realizing the importance of protection against disasters and the need for a robust recovery service. The DRaaS market is rapidly gaining maturity especially in the Large and Medium Business segments in India. Our services will enable our valued customers gear up their organizations to meet any challenge. I am sure this partnership with Sanovi will help us become a market leader in this domain.”

Raja Vonna, Sanovi’s Co-Founder and VP OEM Engg said “More and more customers – especially mid-size companies – are looking to jump into the cloud model to minimize in-house investment and save on infrastructure, space and other costs. With, Business Continuity emerging as a key focus area for businesses, Sanovi’s cloud product enables service providers to scale and deploy DR offerings that are attractive to customers for its subscription-based pricing models and associated SLAs. Our globally recognized DR Management solution coupled with HCL Infosystems infrastructure and service capabilities will be an unbeatable offering to provide end-to-end IT DR operations at a reasonable cost."

Sankara Krishnan, Director – Alliances at Sanovi said “The association brings together the best of product and solution capabilities providing a great value to the end customer”.

The Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provided jointly by HCL Infosystems and Sanovi, will also be equipped to create an entire failover site infrastructure for customers. The service will also help address critical IT DR issues including those of interoperability owing to heterogeneous operating environments. Other features include continuous monitoring, automating manual DR processes, comprehensive reporting capabilities and flip of switch fail over and fall back options. A team of highly skilled and trained resources from HCL Infosystems will provide support for customer requests or issues.

About HCL Infosystems
HCL Infosystems Ltd. with revenue (LTM) of US$ 1.8 billion (Rs. 9,882 crores) is India’s Premier Technology Company and offers a wide spectrum of IT Services and Products ranging from Cloud to Learning Solutions. As a complete IT solutions provider the company offers comprehensive offerings in Enterprise Application Services, IT Infrastructure Managed Services, System Integration, Office Automation Products and Services, Distribution and Support Services. The company operates in both the Consumer and the Enterprise space – offering the latest mobility products and operating in verticals like BFSI, Telecom, and Healthcare respectively.
HCL Care, the support and service division of the company has one of the largest and most extensive service networks across the country and provides end to end support services for various IT, Telecom and Consumer Electronics products.HCL Infosystems has one of the largest distribution network of digital lifestyle global brands and an unparalleled robust service network in the country including Tier 2 and 3 cities. Digilife Distribution and Marketing Services (DDMS), a 100% subsidiary of HCL Infosystems focuses on multi brand distribution and offers value added distribution for its partners including strategic consulting services, last mile connect and support in marketing and promotions. HCL Learning a division of the company covers the entire spectrum of education and training requirements across schools, colleges, individuals and enterprises and offers rich learning solutions across these segments. HCL Infosystems MEA (Middle East and Africa), a fully owned subsidiary of HCL Infosystems is part of the emerging markets outreach of the company and focuses on expanding the business in the Middle East and African geographies and provides comprehensive IT solutions to customers across verticals in the region. The company also has robust operations in Singapore with its subsidiary HCL Insys Pte. Ltd. gaining traction in the region with its Enterprise solutions including a strong offering in Infrastructure Managed Services.
For more information please visit us at www.hclinfosystems.in

About HCL
HCL is a $6.3 billion leading global technology and IT enterprise comprising two companies listed in India - HCL Technologies and HCL Infosystems. Founded in 1976, HCL is one of India's original IT garage start-ups. A pioneer of modern computing, HCL is a global transformational enterprise today. Its range of offerings includes product engineering, custom & package applications, BPO, IT infrastructure services, IT hardware, systems integration, and distribution of information and communications technology (ICT) products across a wide range of focused industry verticals. The HCL team consists of over 90,000 professionals of diverse nationalities, who operate from 31 countries including over 720 points of presence in India. HCL has partnerships with several leading global 1000 firms, including leading IT and technology firms.
For more information, please visit www.hcl.com
About Sanovi
Sanovi Technologies is an independent software vendor offering a suite of software products and solutions in the IT Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) space. Sanovi has its corporate headquarters in Bangalore, with sales and service offices across India, Dubai, and South Korea. Sanovi's flagship DRM product enables organizations to ensure that their IT applications recover predictably in a disaster scenario to meet the required recovery goals. Sanovi DRM provides high levels of interoperability, real time monitoring of adherence to DR SLAs, workflow automation and advanced reporting features making it a critical part of any organisations DR landscape.
More than 85 large enterprises including several fortune 500 clients are already using Sanovi products to manage their DR program. For more information, visit www.sanovi.com.