HCL Tech to provide data centre services to AstraZeneca

IT major HCL Technologies today said it has been selected as a strategic partner to provide infrastructure outsourcing services to bio-pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca.

However, no financial details of the deal were disclosed.

As part of the five-year engagement, HCL will be responsible for managing AstraZeneca's entire data centre environment across over 60 locations globally, including hosting and migration of some of the existing large data centers, HCL Technologies said in a statement.

In addition, HCL will manage AstraZeneca's global collaboration environment including email, messaging and collaboration services for users worldwide.

HCL will also deliver transformational projects including server virtualisation, storage and backup transformation and implementation of the hybrid cloud.

"In today's economic environment, organisations across the world are facing unique challenges of rising operational and input costs, demanding customers and changing regulatory environment," HCLT Executive Vice President and Head (Global Infrastructure services) HCL ISD R Srikrishna said.