HCL inks tech infrastructure pact with Newscorp arm

IT services provider HCL Technologies has entered into a five-year multi-million pound deal with News International, the UK subsidiary of News Corporation for technology infrastructure management and transformation.

HCL will be responsible for managing News International's data centre and network environments and strategically transforming them. To begin with, this will involve transformation projects such as migrating operating systems to lower cost industry standard solutions, business continuity improvements and virtualization, consolidation and standardization of storage and servers.