Taking another leap in offering simplified IT infrastructure solutions for the emerging businesses in India, HCL Infosystems Ltd, country’s premier information enabler, the ICT system integrator and distribution company announced the launch of its next-generation ‘HCL – Datacenter in a Box’. This offers Simplified IT Infrastructure solution with power-packed Blade Servers in one system that Integrates storage, computing and networking. This integrated solution is not only easy to deploy, maintain and upgrade but is also cost effective and delivers exceptional value. It comes equipped with six hot-swap compute blades, based on latest 45 nm Intel Quad Core Xeon 5400 Series processors, delivering performance necessary for all business-critical applications. Delivering HCL’s promise of simplicity and ease of management of IT infrastructure, the new server also features simplified management through a GUI interface, Integrated 2 TB SAN storage and expansion options.

In the growing SMB & emerging businesses environment, it is not always practical to draw up a long term or a complex configuration for ICT infrastructure. With a booming economy and IT as nuclei of business growth, SMBs and emerging businesses need simple yet powerful solutions for their computing needs that scale with their growth. Handicapped on limited knowledge of IT, limited skilled manpower and financial resources these organizations find it difficult to leverage IT to their advantage.

HCL’s ‘Data centre in a box’ will not only help emerging businesses to build a data centre ICT infrastructure but will also provide them with an ICT infrastructure that is up and ready 24X7. By deploying ‘Data centre in box’ as its IT infrastructure core, SMBs can experience simplicity coupled with data centre class manageability and a world class IT infrastructure.

Built in RAID 0,1,5,6 HCL’s ‘Data centre in a box’, offers data protection to the users. Another new unique feature is GUI-powered operation and management ‘Virtual Presence’ software delivering full control for point-and-click deployment and management.

HCL will offer this on PAN India basis and has a plan of 15 Road shows in next 4 months. ISVs enrolled with ISV Program of HCL will also promote this as a part of their solution offering for different verticals like Cooperative Banks, Manufacturing, and Education etc