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HP signs $675-mn deal with Unilever

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NEW DELHI, INDIA: HP has signed seven-year outsourcing contract worth $675 million with Unilever to manage its technology infrastructure in the Americas, Asia, Africa, Turkey and Middle East.

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Through this agreement, HP will provide management of Unilever's IT processes and services, including corporate data centers, messaging and directory services, Internet and intranet systems hosting, disaster recovery services, and the outsourcing of 4,500 multi-vendor UNIX and Windows servers and storage environments.

Operating as a single point of contact for Unilever's enterprise computing environment, HP will work with Unilever's strategic partners, including SAP, Microsoft and BT, to help reduce costs and ease the integration of new applications.

HP will also manage the third-party contracts within Unilever's technology environment. As part of this agreement, approximately 250 Unilever employees will be transfered to HP.

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