HP multi-million dollar contract win

Peter Dinham
Tuesday, 12 July 2011 14:51

IT Industry - Deals

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has secured a four-year, multi-million dollar IT transformation contract with Australian-based Minerals and Metals Group (MMG) to provide cloud and infrastructure services.

The contract has recently gone live and involves a number of projects to streamline MMG's existing IT environments.

MMG CIO, Peter McLure, said the company's rapid business growth and recent acquisitions have resulted in a legacy of disparate IT environments. McLure said the transformed IT environment will reduce the number of technical handovers in the company's IT ecosystem and increase efficiency and responsiveness.

HP's head of enterprise cloud services, South Pacific, David Fox said HP will provide agile cloud and infrastructure services to support MMG's move towards a hybrid cloud computing environment, enabling 'greater flexibility to respond to rapid business growth,' and supporting the company's drive to increase global growth and maximise revenue.

Fox says that to gain the benefits of a hybrid environment, organisations must have an IT delivery model that is flexible across different sourcing options, but managed as an integrated technology environment.

'HP will provide a hybrid delivery model that enables MMG to deliver IT services in a more responsive and cost-effective way. The model encompasses a mix of traditional data centre hosting services for common business-critical applications, with cloud-based services for their back-end operational applications. A standardised Infrastructure platform at sites, centrally managed, will enable consistent service levels to be achieved across remote mining locations.'

According to Fox, under the new agreement:

'¢    HP will continue to provide MMG with data centre hosting, server, storage and network management services for business critical applications. This will expand to include workplace and service desk services.

'¢    The deployment of centralised servers and storage onto HP Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS) platform will deliver the operational IT services. This will enable MMG to respond dynamically to changes and peaks in demand, with IT infrastructures in predefined configurations delivered as a service. Moreover, it will enable MMG to quickly dial up or dial down their technology capacity to meet business needs.

'¢    HP can also centrally manage the remote servers and storage infrastructure at MMG sites.

'In the mining industry, organisations need to respond instantly to growth opportunities,' Fox said, adding that 'the combination of HP's technology and cloud services will help MMG navigate the many challenges of a growing global operation. Flexible and scalable infrastructure means companies like MMG can achieve immediate returns from acquisitions and become an Instant-On Enterprise.'