AstraZeneca Signs Five-Year Engagement With HCL Technologies

HCL Technologies (HCL), an IT services provider in India, has been selected by AstraZeneca, a big 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 new 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.

"In today’s economic environment, organizations across the world are facing unique challenges of rising operational and input costs, demanding customers and changing regulatory environment. More than ever, organizations are looking at partners who create value while managing these challenges. We are delighted to partner with AstraZeneca in their technology transformation journey. This win is a testimony to HCL’s leadership in Global infrastructure services market and its critical investments in developing next generation Intellectual properties such as myCloud and MTaaS. We continue with our commitment to Infrastructure outsourcing market and focus on large, complex & transformational engagements," said Mr. R Srikrishna, Executive Vice President and Head, Global Infrastructure services, HCL ISD, HCL Technologies.