HP wins $1.4 bn outsourcing deal from E.ON

BANGALORE, INDIA: U.S. tech giant Hewlett-Packard Co said on Wednesday it has won a $1.4 billion infrastructure technology outsourcing contract from German utility E.ON.

As per the agreement, HP will directly manage the data center and workplace services for more than 80,000 E.ON. employees.

HP said it would also closely collaborate with E.ON's other key IT suppliers, helping to reduce E.ON's management complexity. As a result, more than 1,100 E.ON employees will be transferred to HP in April 2011, the company said.

Deutsche Telekom unit T-Systems also won the outsourcing contract worth up to 1 billion euros ($1.34 billion) from E.ON.

T-Systems -- Deutsche Telekom's business client unit -- will take over responsibility for E.ON's international speech and data network for at least the next five years, and 220 E.ON employees will switch to T-Systems.