India's first Microsoft CoE for IM

NEW DELHI: HCL Comnet today announced the opening of India's first Microsoft Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Infrastructure Management.





This centre will significantly add to HCL's existing capabilities in offering migration and project services to worldwide customers on new Microsoft technologies.





The CoE will further enhance HCL's capabilities in implementing best practices around active Microsoft platform and technologies, building unique solutions for implementing new MS technology platforms, showcasing and offering migration and project based services to global customers for deploying new MS platforms like Windows Vista, SMS, MS System Centre, MOM 2007, etc.





Under this CoE, an exclusive Infrastructure Lab will be set-up at Comnet's state-of-the-art premises at Noida with an initial investment of USD1 mn by HCL.





Commenting on this initiative, Anant Gupta, COO, HCL Comnet said, "This CoE brings to light another interesting facet to our existing relationship with Microsoft and is an important milestone for the Remote Infrastructure Management Industry in India and HCL's global leadership in this arena."





The infrastructure management CoE will add a new dimension to the existing HCL-Microsoft relationship by reducing the total cost of ownership of software on the Microsoft side and adding more value to the skill-set of engineers/analysts on HCL's side.