Infosys announced on Thursday a global partnership with Huawei to offer enterprise customers big data and communication solutions besides expansion of its existing engagement with Microsoft and Hitachi Data Systems.
Providing details, in separate press releases, Infosys said the IT solutions to be developed with Chinese multi-national ICT firm Huawei would be for enterprise customers looking to modernise operations with cloud infrastructure.
Both the companies will build reference architectures and standardised solutions for big data platforms on Huawei hardware infrastructure.
Setting up a joint lab in China to enable better delivery in all areas of the partnership will also be considered by the two companies.
Predictive analytics
In another release, Infosys said it would expand its capabilities for analytics and other service offerings on Microsoft technologies. Using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, a broad range of predictive analytics tools will be offered to enterprises. A global centre of excellence for Microsoft Azure Machine Learning will also be established as part of the partnership, with a capacity to train over 1,000 engineers by the end of fiscal year 2015.
With Hitachi Data Systems, another release from Infosys said, the engagement is to be expanded to take next generation infrastructure and data centre transformation solutions to enterprises. “The new solutions will help improve operational efficiencies and facilitate smooth transition of their IT infrastructure to new cloud-based environments,” the release said.
A centre of excellence will also be set up to co-create pay-per-use solutions with HDS. Many private cloud offerings will be created by the two companies to be “delivered as-a-service related to ERP, CRM, exchange and collaboration, with flexible pricing models”. This will help enterprises reduce capital expenditure on their cloud infrastructure, the release said.