HCL Technologies is positioned as a Leader in the 2021 IDC MarketScape for worldwide managed multicloud services. HCL's cloud vision is based on the company's Cloud Smart program that is designed to help enterprises move to a new operating model with the goal of enabling a firm to achieve the agility needed to compete in a hyperdynamic world.

The report evaluated 14 service providers (SPs) that provide managed multicloud services (MMS). IDC used more than 100 criteria and 27 in-depth customer interviews spanning 10 countries and 11 industries to compare managed SPs that provide managed multicloud services, for which there are an array of players competing in this market.

HCL strengthens its  managed multicloud services framework by:

• Replacing existing client infrastructure with public cloud infrastructure (IaaS), and rehosting or re-platforming legacy (e.g., custom coded — COBOL) or older packaged applications (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Microsoft) into new software architectures (e.g., new code, newer versions of packaged applications) onto private and/or public cloud infrastructures (IaaS).
• Increasing market standards in using managed multicloud services to support packaged applications managed on public clouds as well as to support container-based/microservices and container platforms.
• Exceeding market standards in using multicloud management platform capabilities (e.g., management platform, tools, technologies), providing lower RTO and RPO.
• Building a wide array of standardized, vertical-specific solutions that can be run on different public cloud provider platforms that span the gamut from BFSI, manufacturing, healthcare, retail consumer product goods (CPG), telecom, media to entertainment, transport, travel, and logistics.

Download the full report to know how HCL's portfolio of cloud services can assist enterprises in migrating and modernizing enterprise organizational structures, processes, and IT environments to operate in a cloud model.