AstraZeneca selects HCL as outsourcing partner

LONDON: HCL Technologies (HCL), a global IT services provider, on Monday announced that it has been selected 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 including hosting and migration of some of the existing large Data Centers into state-of-the-art 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,” said R Srikrishna, executive vice president and head - Global Infrastructure services, HCL.

He added that this agreement 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.