Carlyle ties up with MindTree

BANGALORE, INDIA: MindTree Limited, a global IT solutions company, today announced a partnership with The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm.

MindTree would provide IT infrastructure management and support services for Carlyle’s global data centers, said a press release.

“The Carlyle Group is excited about our new partnership with MindTree,” said David Roth, managing director, Information Technology, The Carlyle Group. “MindTree offers a unique corporate culture which differentiates them in the industry and aligns with the core values of The Carlyle Group. This paves the way for a strong relationship, which will help us reduce operational costs by leveraging MindTree’s IT asset management expertise, ITIL processes, and around the clock support.”

MindTree would monitor and manage all of Carlyle’s IT production servers hosted at Carlyle’s data centers in the U.S., UK and Hong Kong, as well as its disaster recovery data center in Virginia.

It would also monitor and manage the file servers located in Carlyle offices throughout the world, as well as other classes of hardware and applications.

MindTree will use its managed services platform, mWatch, to remotely provide the services to Carlyle from India. mWatch is an integrated platform with monitoring and management capabilities for applications, databases, servers, networks, storage and security, said MindTree. It is an ITIL compliant platform with event, incident, problem, configuration and change management integrated with service desk support.

“MindTree is proud to be managing the IT infrastructure of The Carlyle Group, one of the most respected organizations in the private equity space,” said Parthasarathy N S, president and CEO, Independent Testing and Infrastructure Management and Technical Support, MindTree.

He added that the combination of MindTree’s delivery processes and people capabilities with their mWatch monitoring and management tool would increase Carlyle’s IT effectiveness and reduce costs. He claimed this is another example of MindTree’s deep expertise in serving customers in the financial sector.