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UK's News Intl signs 5 yr deal with HCL

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LONDON: HCL Technologies Ltd. (HCL) has entered into a multi million pounds, five year technology Infrastructure Management and Transformation engagement with News International, a UK subsidiary of News Corporation, a diversified global media company.

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HCL will be responsible for managing News International’s datacenter and network environments along with strategically transforming them. To begin with, this will involve transformation projects such as migrating operating systems to lower cost industry standard solutions, business continuity improvements and virtualization, consolidation & standardization of storage and servers. Thereafter, further innovations and improvements will be driven by HCL’s world class IT management practice.

“The focus within New International on reducing operational costs and increasing technology process standardization requires a flexible, on-tap technology organization with a global presence and the best global technology partnerships.  HCL’s proven track record in the Media & Entertainment industry and world-class Infrastructure Management assures us that entering this engagement will provide News International with reduced costs, an improved end user experience, more resilient systems and reduced technology complexity”, said Nick Leake, Director of Technology Services, News International.

HCLT is already successfully working with other News Corporation companies for their technology Infrastructure Management requirements.

“We see the benefit of working with the same global partners across News Corp” said Andrew Hickey, CIO of News International and a member of News Corp’s CIO Council.  “We saw the good work HCL had undertaken with other News Corporation companies and wanted to use their expertise for our company too. I believe that longer term, technology cost optimization, after standardization, will be driven by shared tenancy models and this deal positions us to take advantage of this model in the medium term” he continued.