TCS Positioned as a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing & Hybrid Infrastructure Managed Services, Europe

Mumbai: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Outsourcing and Hybrid Infrastructure Managed Services, Europe1, for the second year in a row.

“TCS believes that an adaptive core or digital spine is at the heart of a resilient and adaptable enterprise and helps meet dynamic business needs. We enable this for our customers through a flexible technology architecture leveraging our platform-based Elastic Operating Model powered by the Machine First™ approach, as well as hybrid cloud and agile data center offerings,” said Krishna Mohan, Deputy Head, Cognitive Business Operations, TCS. “We believe our Leadership position is a recognition of our vision, investments and ability to make technology relevant to our customers’ business context.”

TCS’ Cognitive Business Operations (CBO) unit helps companies embed intelligence and digital technologies in IT and business operations to drive exponential customer value. It has been helping leading corporations across the world in their transformation initiatives by simplifying their technology stack. Legacy, monolithic systems that are difficult to maintain are dismantled and replaced with microservices, APIs, or SaaS/ PaaS equivalents, and workloads are shifted to the cloud to gain from flexibility and scalability. The simplified technology stack and use of automation enables leaner, more agile processes, lowering the cost of business operations, while improving the speed to market.

TCS leverages its Machine First™ Delivery Model (MFDM™) to help enterprises move up the automation maturity curve in a controlled, predictable, and planned manner. In addition to collaborating with leading automation product vendors, TCS deploys its own closed-loop autonomous enterprise software, ignio™, to transform customers’ diverse and complex IT infrastructure landscape into highly resilient, self-healing stacks.

TCS’ data center outsourcing and hybrid infrastructure managed services offerings include:

Agile and Intelligent Data Center Solution: An end-to-end next generation infrastructure services portfolio consisting of Agile business data center offerings powered by MFDM, which help customers increase speed to market for digital products. Key components include a Digital Delivery platform for seamless operations, Secure Borderless Workspace™ (SBWS™), DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), container platforms, High Performance Computing (HPC) for business agility, IT disaster recovery services and automation, and backup and data protection solutions for business resiliency. Hybrid IT solutions provides IaaS, PaaS and Container as a Service (CaaS). Through its strong capabilities in the public cloud, the TCS Enterprise Cloud and on-premise clouds, powered by Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), the company enables elasticity and borderless capacity.

TCS Enterprise Cloud: Provides a broad range of flexible cloud infrastructure options to support dynamic cloud services. The hybrid cloud platform is powered by Alpha 4.0 Stack and integrated with SDx capability, enabling automation at all levels. It helps customers manage private and multi cloud platforms, optimize IT resource utilization and reduce IT costs.

TCS Cloud Exponence: Comprehensive, centralized delivery platform for public cloud and hybrid IT environments. Provides frictionless and rapid on-boarding of services enabled by MFDM, while reducing cloud on-boarding time and creating a standardized delivery experience. This includes Cloud Brokerage Services with a Digital Value Broker capability to adopt a 100 percent agile and DevOps model.

AI-ready Infrastructure: Eliminates the complexity and bottlenecks of managing large big data and high-performance infrastructure with GPU and CPU, enabling users to access and manage the computing resources to test, train and deploy AI algorithms across hybrid platforms.

Intelligent Edge Computing: Provides services for discovery, build, deployment and end-to end visibility and management across Edge infrastructure and applications, focusing on emerging business cases such as video analytics, remote monitoring and predictive maintenance, fleet management, and connected vessels.

“Our sustained growth in the UK and Europe is being driven by our participation in the growth and transformation journeys of our customers. TCS has strengthened its presence in the region by opening new digital delivery centers and is well positioned to solve customers’ business problems, helping them stay true to their purpose and succeed in the Business 4.0™ era,” added Krishna Mohan.

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