HCL Completes Development of Storage Networking Industry Association’s SMI-S Conformance Test Suite

Collaboration Between HCL and SNIA Will Help Promote Industry Standards and Assist in Storage Product Interoperability

Storage Networking World Fall 2006
Booth No. PP29

ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global IT services provider, in partnership with the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) today announced it is currently working on SNIA’s Conformance Test Suite Version 1.2.0 for Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), as part of SNIA’s efforts to promote industry standards, simplify the management of heterogeneous storage networks and offer enterprises greater interoperability. SNIA uses the conformance test suite developed by HCL and other SNIA partners for certifying SMI-S provider implementations for conformance to the SMI-S standards, and has certified many leading networked storage products.

SNIA originally partnered with HCL in 2003 to develop the SNIA-CTP test suite, which covered server, array, fabric and switch profiles. SNIA then launched Version 1.0 in April 2004 and has continued its successful partnership with HCL to develop subsequent phases of SNIA-CTP, including the 1.0.2, 1.0.3 and 1.1.0 releases. These releases have covered many additional profiles, including fiber channel host bus adapter, in-band virtualization, storage library, as well as features such as remote self-certification.

“HCL is proud to be associated with SNIA and its quest to promote open standards,” said Sandeep Kishore, Vice President, Hi Tech, HCL. “We are glad to see that the SMI-S is being widely accepted among both storage vendors and users. These changes are expected to greatly increase the participation of the vendors in the SNIA-CTP program.”

“HCL’s significant contribution to the SNIA-CTP program since the beginning of the 2003 initiative and the company’s support at all critical milestones have been instrumental in faster adoption of the SMI-S Standard,” said Ed von Adelung, Chair, Interoperability Committee, SNIA.

HCL is a dominant engineering services provider in all the areas of storage domain, and works with leading solution providers in the end-to-end product engineering, interoperability testing and technical support areas. Having executed complex, full and partial lifecycle product engineering projects for fortune 500 storage companies, HCL is a single source of expertise in software, firmware, testing, hardware (FPGA/ASIC/Board Design) and applications.

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About HCL Technologies

HCL Technologies is one of India’s leading global IT Services companies, providing software-led IT solutions, remote infrastructure management services and BPO. Having made a foray into the global IT landscape in 1999 after its IPO, HCL Technologies focuses on Transformational Outsourcing, working with clients in areas that impact and re-define the core of their business. The company leverages an extensive global offshore infrastructure and its global network of offices in 16 countries to deliver solutions across select verticals including Financial Services, Retail & Consumer, Life Sciences, Hi-tech and Manufacturing, Telecom and, Media and Entertainment. HCL Technologies, along with its subsidiaries had revenue of US $ 1.058 billion (Rs. 4797 crore) for the twelve month period ending 30th September 2006, and employed 36,452 professionals. For more information, please visit www.hcltech.com

About HCL Enterprise

HCL Enterprise is a leading global technology and IT enterprise with annual revenues of US $3.7 billion (Rs. 16,789 crores). The HCL Enterprise comprises two companies listed in India - HCL Technologies & HCL Infosystems. The 3-decade-old enterprise, founded in 1976, is India’s original IT garage start-up. Its range of offerings span Product Engineering, Technology and Application Services, BPO, Infrastructure Services, IT Hardware, Systems Integration, and distribution of ICT products. The HCL team comprises 40,999 professionals of diverse nationalities, who operate from 16 countries including 300 points of presence in India. HCL has global partnerships with several leading Fortune 1000 firms, including leading IT and Technology firms. For more information please visit www.hcl.in