HCL partners with Microsoft, targets SMB segment

HCL Frontline, the channel arm of HCL Infosystems, and Mic-rosoft Corporation
India Pvt Ltd have tied up to specifically target Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs)
in India by launching servers and IT solutions. The two companies have announced
the launch of IT solutions that include hardware, security, storage, networking
and connectivity, software and application as well as facility management and
training-all tailor made for SMBs.

Since the success rate of SMB's depends upon the fact that all connected
users should have fast, easy and uninterru-pted access to the company's
computing resources.

According to the press release, the HCL NetManager servers, preloaded and
precon-figured with Microsoft Small Business Server 2003, has been designed and
built by HCL after keeping these factors in mind . Besides that it makes
available HCL Desktops-Busybee preloaded with Windows XP Pro operating system
and Office Basic 2003.

Speaking on the occasion, Rajendra Kumar, VP Opera-tions, HCL Infosystems
said, "We at HCL Infosystems under-stand that in an SMB scenario, the two
commodities at a premium are time and funds. What we are offering is tech-nology
that will help save time, and the cost is the lowest ever offered. HCL has taken
the lead yet again in being the first to offer a single window, a com-plete
solution, to take care of all the needs a small or med-ium business might
have" Commenting on this initiative, Karthik Padmanabhan, Micro-soft India
business group lead said, "Through this initiative, we aim to provide this
segment with the best technology at the lowest cost.

With the added advantage of sourcing all the IT com-ponents from one OEM,
this initiative provides the SMB audience with an unmatched value
proposition."

The servers, desktop PCs and solution will be available at all HCL
Infosystems business solution partners across the country

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