Sunoco extends contract with Infocrossing

BANGALORE, INDIA: Infocrossing, a Wipro Company, and Sunoco, a provider in petroleum and petrochemical products, announced on Wednesday that it has entered in to a $34 million four-year contract extension and expansion of the companies’ 13-year relationship.

Since 1996, Infocrossing has provided managed infrastructure outsourcing services that have helped Sunoco access the latest technologies including servers, storage and network devices, said a press release.

During the 13-year relationship, Sunoco has been able to achieve operational improvements and make enhancements to the delivery of its services to its customers.

“This agreement builds on a 13-year relationship with Infocrossing,” said Peter Whatnell, CIO at Sunoco. “It is aligned with our IT roadmap and is consistent with the intent of our IT outsourcing strategy to continue working jointly with Infocrossing to manage our mainframe, UNIX and Windows environments as well as take advantage of their shared infrastructure services such as their storage arrays.”

“ Sunoco’s decision to extend its agreement with Infocrossing confirms our excellent collaboration and our successful relationship as a business ally,” said Sameer Kishore, president and COO for Infocrossing, a Wipro Company. “We are certain that we will continue to make an important contribution to Sunoco’s success.”

Infocrossing, a Wipro Company, has been providing comprehensive IT management solutions for large and mid-size enterprises for more than 25 years, and operates world-class data centers throughout the United States.

The company has expertise across multiple computing environments and platforms, including mainframes, iSeries, Unix, Windows and Linux servers, and offers an array of delivery models from custom solutions delivered in Infocrossing’s data centers, to remote management and cloud computing, the release added.