US pharma client extends contract with HCL Tech

IT services company HCL Technologies on Wednesday said its customer, Prudue Pharma LP, has extended an IT infrastructure management contract that was originally signed in 2010. The financial terms of the initial contract as well as the extension were not disclosed.

Under the new terms of the contract, HCL Technologies will expand collaboration with the US-based pharmaceutical company on its ongoing IT and infrastructure management, by extending support to existing projects such as data center management. HCL Technologies will also work on new assignments such as virtualisation, back up transformation and future product rollouts.

“HCL will enable establishment and adoption of new systems and technologies by providing unified service aggregation and management across their servers, network, messaging, database, storage and backup,” the company said in a release. “HCL will also render service desk and remote desktop services for all US offices of Purdue from its North Carolina based delivery center. With capacity for more than 1,000 seats, HCL’s North Carolina center is one of the key hubs for delivering information technology, infrastructure management and business process services to its global clients.”

Purdue Pharma is a privately-held pharmaceutical company known for pioneering research on chronic pain. It is engaged in the research, development, production, and distribution of both prescription and over-the-counter medicines and hospital products.