SUNNYVALE, USA and NOIDA, INDIA: HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL), India’s leading global IT services company, today announced that it had completed acquisition of a 35,000 square foot data center from a Fortune 500 Organization in Parsippany, New Jersey.

The move aligns with company’s strategy to increase its global footprint and meet growing customer demand for eco-friendly, advanced, end-to-end services including near-shore Co-location Solutions and Services, Cloud Computing, Business Continuity and Mainframe Management Services.

This next generation data center will complement HCL’s existing near-shore delivery network in US comprising of its operations center in Raleigh, North Carolina and its global data center delivery ecosystem, powered by its partner footprints across the globe. HCL has nine data center partners, apart from its own facilities currently, serving its worldwide customer base.

“HCL has made a long standing commitment in growing its presence here in the United States and today’s announcement of a new, next generation data center in New Jersey demonstrates our commitment to this region,” said R Srikrishna, SVP, Sales - North America, HCLT Infrastructure Services Division (HCLT ISD). “HCL is focused on growing market share in North America and our new operations, not only in New Jersey but also in North Carolina, enabling us to accomplish that goal while benefiting the local economies through short and long term job creation for construction and IT support in the future.”

HCL took over this data center from a Fortune 500 enterprise in October, 2008 and upgraded the technology and service landscape, using its state of the art consolidation, virtualization, green computing and reference architectures including open systems and mainframes. This resulted in higher serviceability, better end user application response times and significant cost savings over the last 10 months. The company is investing $15mn in this facility.

HCL is further upgrading this facility to a Tier III equivalent Next Generation data center by deploying best-of-breed eco-friendly technologies from leading solution/technology vendors and acquiring world class certifications. The company plans to hire more than 100 local US workers for this state of art facility. This facility has been designed for mission critical systems conforming to the Uptime Institute’s TIER III guidelines. Additionally the facility follows the LEED guidelines established by U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).