Build a Collaborative, Value-enabled Partnership Model to Achieve Business Transformation As the role of CIOs evolves to a more prominent leadership position in an organization, they continue to grapple various challenges e.g. how to create & deliver proactive business value and manage disruptive technology trends. To overcome such challenges, it’s important to have a collaborative partnership model in place, says Biswajit Rath, Vice President – APAC, HCL Technologies. Read on for insights.

ValueHonors^TM 2011: Celebrating Value Creation in Sourcing Businesses that take advantage of a global sourcing model can create real value, whether it’s through data center transformation, cloud computing, service desk enhancement or some other area. In September 2011, Avago Technologies, Cathay Pacific Airways, Cummins Inc., Electrolux, Old Mutual Wealth Management, Purdue Pharma, Xerox and a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company received ValueHonors Awards, underwritten by InformationWeek, for transforming the way IT is used and redefining the overall value of IT. Read their inspiring value stories to know how businesses are collaborating with HCL ISD to create value.

ValueHonors^TM 2010: Celebrating Value Creation in Sourcing ValueHonors are the industry’s first ever awards that recognize companies for their immense contribution in creating value and transforming business in their global IT infrastructure outsourcing engagements through active collaboration with their sourcing partner. Read the value stories of the winners, namely Cummins, Teradyne, Nokia, Skandia and Xerox who were bestowed ValueHonors Awards, underwritten by InformationWeek.

Re-incarnated CIOs & Their Sourcing Experiences Increasingly, CIOs will be expected to champion initiatives that spur top-line growth, build market share, generate new products and services, even transform a company’s business model. The CIO Straight Talk showcases the various incarnations of the CIOs — their experiences, their company accounts addressing various IT challenges — to make their peers: CIOs and other IT executives realize that they may need to transform themselves to play a transformational role in their organizations. Read on.

South Africa: A Gateway to Africa With its growing economy and business-friendly laws and conditions, South Africa (SA) is fast emerging as a global outsourcing destination. Learn about the country’s skilled talent pool, provider base and supportive government.

Early Cloud Adopters are to Soar High How emerging technologies such as Cloud can help you standardize, synchronize and orchestrate your IT ecosystem.

Cloud Will Turn IT Infrastructure into a Raw Commodity Nicholas G. Carr (famously known as Nick), author of the bestseller The Big Switch — Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google, and Anubhav Saxena, VP, HCL Technologies get into a candid conversation on Cloud. Appearing nonchalant throughout the conversation, Nick talks about everything related to Cloud — whether it has the potential to ever lead to creative disruption in the IT industry, how it is poised to change not only the IT landscape but also the economic, social and cultural landscape of the world, and more.

Smart IT keeps 22,500 cars off the highway Plus it also turns into 300,000 trees planted, 133,140,990 lbs reduction in carbon emissions, and a whopping annual energy cost savings of $10 million at HCL.

RIM route to effective biz The advent of remote network operations centre (NOC) services had heralded the arrival of Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) in India during the year 2000. Though it had been a slow starter, the adoption of RIM has picked up by enterprises during the past two years. This may be attributed to the rise in demand with companies such as HCL Comnet ushering in a new RIM that held within itself globally benchmarked solutions and processes.

Economic recovery: A mirage Experts deliberate on the topic and conclude that it is time companies analyzed their strengths, remained alert about the opportunities and cautious about the uncertainties in the future.

Assurance on the cloud Windows Azure is being accepted by Indian businesses for the fact that it is not only a reliable and scalable platform for customers to access online services, but also for enabling creation of feature-rich applications for different devices and a large set of users without worrying about IT infrastructure.

Evolving Sourcing Dynamics Benefits of outsourcing are not limited to saving pockets. With the changing business dynamics, the competitive benefits of outsourcing have also grown — from cost savings to value creation for customers.

The Placebo Effect Virtualization is a sure panacea in hiding the IT asset complexities and creating a highly flexible information infrastructure.

Service Delivery and Industrialization Introducing the best of ITT practices where Saas/Cloud computing model provides impetus to HCL MTaaS model.

IT Strategy: Remote Infrastructure Management RIM vendors, the current slowdown is the icing on the cake, as companies all around the world are looking to consolidate their IT infrastructure and experienced yet cheap labor.

Industrialization of IT Industrialization of IT is characterized by increasing standardization of components and processes, including best practices, selling outcome rather than content and continual process improvement.

HCL Invests in Green Datacenter in US HCLT extends its Datacenter Transformation Services to New Jersey. Green Datacenter Enables End-to-End Services Including Near-shore Co-Location Solutions, Business Continuity Planning, Cloud Computing and Mainframe Management Services; HCL Continues Increasing Investments in U.S.

The year ahead for the 'new normal' economy The momentum carries you down hill but you need skill and stamina to climb uphill. For students of management and aspiring leaders, there has never been a better opportunity to learn the forgotten art of not only navigating the teams in a momentum business but also in a business that needs climbing to the top again. The skills required are quite different and the attitude to love challenges is an essential because each day is a challenge.

HCL Inks Transformational IT infrastructure management & Data Center Services deal with Xerox Having pioneered the concept of Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) with a co-sourcing engagement model, the leading global IT services provider HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL), has entered into a six-year, multi-regional data center services and Transformational IT Infrastructure management contract with Xerox Corporation. The engagement will further establish the credentials of HCL as the IT Infrastructure Outsourcing behemoth.

How to Make Windows 7 a Win-Win for Your Company Tips and best practices to keep in mind before your company jumps headlong into the much-awaited technology upgrade to Windows 7 Maninder Singh VP, End User Computing Services, HCL ISD Analyst and IT Experts around the world are advising IT departments that the time to move to Windows 7 is now.