Petro-maker re-oils with $34 mn outsourcing deal

NEW JERSEY, USA: Sunoco, a manufacturer and marketer of petroleum and petrochemical products, has taken a 13 year relationship with Infocrossing, a Wipro Company by announcing a $34 million four-year contract extension and expansion of the companies' relationship.

Since 1996, Infocrossing has provided managed infrastructure outsourcing services that have helped Sunoco with technologies including servers, storage and network devices, said a press note.

"This agreement builds on a 13-year relationship with Infocrossing," said Peter Whatnell, CIO at Sunoco. "It is aligned with our IT roadmap and is consistent with the intent of our IT outsourcing strategy to continue working jointly with Infocrossing to manage our mainframe, UNIX and Windows environments as well as take advantage of their shared infrastructure services such as their storage arrays."

"Sunoco's decision to extend its agreement with Infocrossing confirms our excellent collaboration and our successful relationship as a business ally," said Sameer Kishore, President and COO for Infocrossing, a Wipro Company.

"We are certain that we will continue to make an important contribution to Sunoco's success."

Infocrossing, a Wipro Company, operates data centers in the United States and covers work on computing environments and platforms, like mainframes, iSeries, Unix, Windows and Linux servers.