Nov 12, 2018
Noida, India & Burlington, Massachusetts – Nov 12, 2018 – HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global technology company, and NetBrain Technologies, Inc., a leading network automation solutions provider, today announced the launch of HCL NetBot, a joint collaborative technology that offers network visibility and network automation capabilities for enterprise IT teams.
As businesses move into an increasingly digital environment, being able to automate and visualize the network becomes critical. At HCL, the DRYiCETM division is dedicated to building enterprise-grade, Artificial Intelligence-powered automation products and platforms to transform the IT landscape for businesses. HCL NetBot, part of the DRYiCETM portfolio, automates the complete lifecycle of network devices, from provisioning to policy-based change management, compliance, and security administration. Its agile design and architecture helps ensure business ease and accelerated time to market. Combined with NetBrain’s dynamic network mapping capabilities, HCL NetBot also helps IT teams gain end-to-end visibility across hybrid network environments throughout their network automation journey.
This partnership is a key step in catalyzing and scaling HCL’s network automation offering, with the ultimate goal of making networks proactive and self-aware, and enabling more flexible and agile network operations across the enterprise.
“HCL continues to invest in skills and developing partnerships for next–generation services, addressing transformational needs for customers where the network becomes a key enabler,” said Kalyan Kumar, Corporate Vice President & CTO IT Services, Chief Technology Officer. “DRYiCE products and platforms have traditionally helped our customers transform and simplify their IT operations. By leveraging artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation, we intend to consistently deliver quality services and insights to our customers. This collaboration positions HCL and NetBrain to play a leadership role in the network automation space. The joint proposition offers a blend of workflow-driven, auto-remediation of network incidents through HCL NetBot.”
“At NetBrain, we very much look forward to this collaboration with HCL. By incorporating the best features of the HCL NetBot-NetBrain integration, enterprises can generate insights through real-time network visualization and implement customized automation workflows that best fit their business needs. This enables them to automate workflows like change, troubleshooting, security, and compliance across the complete network lifecycle,” said Lingping Gao, CEO and Chairman of NetBrain. “Our partnership includes collaborative go-to-market strategies, joint R&D exercises, as well as strategic business initiatives.”
About NetBrain
Founded in 2004, NetBrain is the market leader in network automation. Its technology platform provides network engineers with end-to-end visibility across their hybrid environments while automating tasks across their IT workflows. Today, more than 2,000 of the world’s largest enterprises and managed service providers use NetBrain to automate network documentation, accelerate troubleshooting, strengthen network security, and implement network changes—while integrating with a rich ecosystem of partners. NetBrain is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, with an office in Sacramento, California, and operating subsidiaries in Munich, Germany; Beijing, China; and Toronto, Canada. To learn more about NetBrain, visit www.netbraintech.com.
NetBrain® and the NetBrain logo are registered trademarks of NetBrain Technologies.
About HCL Technologies
HCL Technologies (HCL) is a leading global technology company that helps global enterprises re–imagine and transform their businesses through Digital technology transformation. HCL operates out of 43 countries and has consolidated revenues of US$ 8.2 billion, for 12 Months ended 30th September, 2018. HCL focuses on providing an integrated portfolio of services underlined by its Mode 1–2–3 growth strategy. Mode 1 encompasses the core services in the areas of Applications, Infrastructure, BPO and Engineering & R&D services, leveraging DRYiCETM Autonomics to transform clients’ business and IT landscape, making them ‘lean’ and ‘agile’. Mode 2 focuses on experience–centric and outcome–oriented integrated offerings of Digital & Analytics, IoT WoRKS™, Cloud Native Services and Cybersecurity & GRC services to drive business outcomes and enable enterprise digitalization. Mode 3 strategy is ecosystem–driven, creating innovative IP–partnerships to build products and platforms business. HCL leverages its global network of integrated co-innovation labs and global delivery capabilities to provide holistic multi–service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Media, Publishing, Entertainment, Retail & CPG, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Oil & Gas, Energy & Utilities, Travel, Transportation & Logistics and Government. With 127,875 professionals from diverse nationalities, HCL focuses on creating real value for customers by taking ‘Relationships Beyond the Contract’. For more information, please visit www.hcltech.com
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