HCL Technologies (HCL) has been picked 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. It will also host and migrate some of the existing large data centres into state-of-the-art facilities. In addition, HCL will manage AstraZeneca's global collaboration environment, including e-mail, messaging and collaboration services for users worldwide. It delivers transformational projects, including server virtualisation, storage and back-up transformation and implementation of the hybrid cloud, according to a release issued by R. Srikrishna, Executive Vice-President and Head-Global Infrastructure Services, HCL ISD, HCL Technologies.
