A sight that stuck with me today - a MacDonald's complete with the golden arches was across the street from one of HCL's buildings. It didn't look like it belonged there especially since there was a free roaming Brahma bull contentedly grazing on a patch of grass beside the restaurant. But, I digress...
On to HCL. The IT services firm brought in $2.7 billion US in revenue last year and is comprised of two divisions, HCL Infosystems and HCL Technologies. The Infosystems division manufactures and brands their own computers for the Indian market and represents about $1.7 billion of the total revenue. The Technologies division is the remote infrastructure management arm. HCL is a big company with a number of years of experience and an impressive list of customers, none of whom I can identify at HCL's request.
The building I was in today was comprised of six floors. Each of the top five floors were partitioned into suites to provide an outsourced machine room and office space for HCL's customers. Each suite represents a distinct space carved out of HCL-one for each customer.
Over the next two days we'll be meeting with additional remote infrastructure management firms and I'll have more to say about the techniques and technology behind HCL as well as the other firms. Now, I need to get some sleep-it's been a rare commodity since I left Syracuse on Saturday.
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