HCL Technologies (HCLT) has entered into a multi-million pound,
five-year technology Infrastructure Management (IM) and
transformation
engagement with News International, a UK subsidiary of News
Corporation. News International produces some of the UK’s
most widely
read newspapers including The Times, The Sun, The Sunday Times
and News of the World.com.
HCL will be responsible for managing News International’s
data
center and network environments. To begin with, this will
involve
transformation projects such as migrating operating systems to
lower
cost industry standard solutions, business continuity improvements
and
virtualization, consolidation and standardization of storage
and
servers. Thereafter, further innovations and improvements will
be
driven by HCL’s IT management practice.
“This engagement will provide News International with reduced
costs,
an improved end user experience, more resilient systems and
reduced
technology complexity,” said Nick Leake, Director of
Technology
Services, News International.
“We are confident of providing efficient operations,
reduction in
ongoing OPEX and CAPEX and IT operations best practices to News
International over the tenure of this engagement,” said
Pradeep Bindal,
Senior VP & Worldwide Head of Sales for Infrastructure
Management
& Transformation Services, HCL Technologies Infrastructure
Services
Division.