HP stitches up $6 million IT services agreement

Peter Dinham
Wednesday, 09 September 2009 08:28

IT Industry - Deals

Hewlett-Packard has inked a five-year, $6 million services agreement with Australian engineering and construction services group, AJ Lucas, which is looking to HP and partner Astron Technology, to help lower technology costs and to establish a platform for continued expansion of its business.

HP and its premier business partner, Astron, will manage AJ Lucas’s operating environment and data centre under the five-year remote monitoring services agreement.

AJ Lucas group manager-IT, Simon Soon, said today that after eight years of rapid organisational growth, the company needed a strategic plan to enable the business to “gain control of IT, reduce costs and establish a platform for continued expansion.

“Our partnership with HP and Astron Technology allows us to simplify and standardise our IT operations through consolidation with minimal disruption to the business.”
 
HP South Pacific, manager network solutions business – technology services, Peter Prowse, said the relocation of the AJ Lucas headquarters within Sydney had provided an ideal opportunity for the company to overhaul its business technology infrastructure, and HP and Astron Technology had helped the company to migrate to a new data centre built on 32 HP BladeSystem servers and BladeSystem storage hardware.

“AJ Lucas required new data centre capabilities and efficiencies that would set the foundation for business growth. HP transformed the company’s infrastructure and network with no disruption to day-to-day operations.”

HP had also designed and implemented an integrated unified communications solution across the organisation. “Based in the new head office, the solution incorporates mobile phones, IP telephony, desktops and laptops, and includes a fleet of more than 300 HP notebook PCs,” Prowse added.

Prowse said that HP was chosen from various vendors based on its experience and expertise in transformational technology infrastructure programs as well as its breadth of hardware and services offerings.