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April 16, 2008
International News
The Flemish Public Employment Service (VDAB) agency has selected EDS as its new partner to manage its information communication technology (ICT) infrastructure. The contract has a six-year term and is worth approximately €50 million (US$74 million). Under the contract, EDS will provide a range of infrastructure services, including user support, user infrastructure management and maximum availability of the ICT environment for the agency's customers and partners. EDS will provide desktop support to more than 5,000 users in 200-plus locations and manage approximately 100 servers.
HP and BT have signed a contract with Nycomed, an international pharmaceutical company headquartered in Switzerland, to outsource its infrastructure services over the next five years. Nycomed engaged the BT HP Alliance to support its infrastructure, which must handle the rapid exchange of critical real-time information across international networks. Under the terms of the agreement, HP will manage Nycomed’s data centers, including more than 450 servers and 120 terabytes (TB) of storage and back-up facilities. HP will also deliver end-user workplace solutions for 10,000 workstations in more than 50 countries. Finally, HP will be responsible for a complete migration of 13,000 mailboxes to the new company standard, Microsoft Exchange 2007.
TRANSALLIANCE, a major European operator for transport and logistics markets based in Nancy, France, announced an agreement with IBM to host its servers, manage its information technology (IT) security and its databases. The four million euro contract will run for the next five years. IBM will provide IT governance for TRANSALLIANCE's companies as well as the management and administration of its entire IT infrastructure on two secured remote sites. The availability of a responsive IT system with on-demand storage capacity was a key factor in TRANSALLIANCE's decision.
Posted by jbowles at April 16, 2008 08:22 PM
