Xerox contracts HCL in six-year data centre services deal

Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 07 April 2009 16:32

IT Industry - Deals

IT services provider, HCL Technologies (HCL) has entered into a six-year, multi-regional data centre services and transformation agreement with Xerox Corporation.
 

HCL today announced that the contract will span mid-range services, business continuity and disaster recovery for Xerox’s information management operations.  HCL says it will manage data centre hosting and migration, virtualization, consolidation and storage architecture services across North America and Europe, as well as providing architecture and consulting services for new technology and system design, adoption and lifecycle improvement.
 
Commenting on the HCL deal, Xerox CIO, John McDermott said “data center environments are the heart of our business operations and we look to partner with companies that can manage our centres and take them to the next level.”

“HCL has demonstrated their leadership position in delivering global, transformational infrastructure services.”
 
HCL’s senior corporate VP and president, Shami Khorana said HCL would use its business service management process to centralise and standardise Xerox’s data centres’ infrastructure.
 
“The engagement will also leverage HCL’s unique ‘zero-business’ disruption based transition framework to ensure an accelerated risk-free transition across distributed regional data centers.

“Our engagement with Xerox is a testament to HCL’s competencies and capabilities which continue to help the customer in its IT transformation by providing innovative IT services scalable to their needs. We are proud of this association and are committed to creating exponential value to enable accelerated returns for Xerox,” Khorana said.