Pioneering Digital Transformation through Flexible Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS)
HCLTech's Utility-for-Everything (U4X) model does more than tick boxes — it delivers real flexibility and control. We offer an XaaS platform for enterprises of all sizes, providing cloud-like agility through a pay-per-use model. Our infrastructure, software and services adapt to your unique use cases and business priorities.
With U4X, you pay only for the compute, storage, security and network resources your business actually consumes. This XaaS model ensures your spending aligns with actual usage, driving operational cost efficiency. We blend the agility and scalability of cloud services with the control, performance and security of on-prem solutions. You get the best of both worlds.
How U4X Works
Deployed capacity
Total capacity, volume or nodes provisioned. This combines committed and variable capacity.
Committed capacity
Minimum base commitment required to begin the subscription on Day 1. Billing is based on committed capacity, volume or nodes.
Variable capacity
The capacity, volume or nodes provisioned to provide flexibility up to 50% for clients.
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Our XaaS Solutions Portfolio
Storage (STaaS)
Meet your primary storage needs — or handle cold and backup tiering of data. STaaS delivers cloud procurement and remote storage management for on-prem, co-located or hybrid cloud environments.
Compute (CaaS)
Run applications and workloads in a node-based, pay-per-use model. Adapt and scale as your business evolves.
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCIaaS)
Deploy a fully integrated, scalable hyperconverged infrastructure solution — combining storage, compute, networking and management.
Backup (BaaS)
Protect and recover data with scalable, reliable, cost-efficient and cyber-resilient solutions. This everything-as-a-service approach shields your data from malicious attacks, human errors, corruption, accidental deletion or hardware and software failures — making data management simpler.
MeterOps
Take the hassle out of metering and monitoring for hybrid cloud storage and backup. This everything-as-a-service business model lets you offload the entire design, deployment and management of storage resources to us.
What You Gain
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Frequently Asked Questions about U4X (Utility for Everything) Solutions
U4X, or Utility for Everything, is HCLTech’s everything as a service (XaaS) strategy. We deliver infrastructure, software and services — the entire IT stack — through a flexible, pay-per-use model. U4X empowers enterprises to consume only what they need, driving agility, cost efficiency and true hybrid cloud experiences.
Unlike traditional fixed contracts or capital-intensive models, U4X offers elastic, utility-based consumption. We blend cloud-like agility with on-prem control, letting clients pay only for what they use. Our expertise ensures seamless integration, transparent billing and customizable services tailored to each client’s business priorities.
Security is foundational to our U4X model. We embed controls at every layer, including tenant isolation, encryption, compliance enforcement, identity management and comprehensive audit trails. Our expertise in secure XaaS solutions helps clients meet regulatory requirements while safeguarding their data and workloads.
Clients can access compute, storage, networking, hyperconverged infrastructure, backup, security and application services — all through our unified XaaS platform. We deliver these components as flexible, pay-per-use services, tailored to each client’s unique requirements and business goals.
With U4X, clients only pay for the resources they actually consume, eliminating large upfront investments and overprovisioning. This OpEx-driven model reduces total cost of ownership, improves budget predictability and aligns IT spending directly with business needs, driving significant cost optimization.
With everything as a service, we enable clients to scale resources up or down instantly, bypassing lengthy procurement cycles. This XaaS approach enables organizations to respond more quickly to business needs, launch new initiatives efficiently and adapt to changing demands — all while maintaining control and optimizing costs.
We provide transparent, real-time metering and usage tracking through dashboards and automated showback/chargeback mechanisms. Clients always know what they’re consuming and paying for, with predictable invoicing and no hidden costs. Our approach ensures clarity and trust in every aspect of the billing process.
U4X is ideal for workloads with variable or unpredictable demand, such as development, testing, seasonal spikes, or rapid scaling needs. It’s also ideal for organizations seeking OpEx-driven IT, short-term projects, or those modernizing legacy infrastructure to achieve greater flexibility and efficiency.
Absolutely. We help clients onboard and virtualize their legacy infrastructure, software and services into the U4X model over time. Our team ensures a smooth transition, minimizing disruption while modernizing IT environments for greater agility and cost effectiveness.
Our U4X platform is designed for seamless scalability. We enable clients to expand or contract resources across on-prem, co-located and public cloud environments, all managed through a single interface. This flexibility ensures clients can support growth, innovation and changing workloads without complexity.