HCL Technologies to provide transformational data centre services to AstraZeneca
December 2011 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
HCL Technologies(HCL) announced that it has been selected by AstraZeneca, a biopharmaceutical company, as a strategic infrastructure outsourcing partner. HCL will be responsible for the provision, management and transformation of AstraZeneca’s global Hosting and Collaboration environment.
As part of the five year engagement, HCL will be responsible for managing AstraZeneca’s entire Data Centre environment across over 60 locations globally including hosting and migration of some of the existing large Data Centers into state-of-the-art facilities. In addition, HCL will manage AstraZeneca’s global Collaboration environment including Email, Messaging and Collaboration Services for users worldwide. HCL will also deliver transformational projects including Server Virtualisation, Storage and Backup transformation and implementation of the hybrid cloud.