Biopharmaceutical Company AstraZeneca chose HCL as Strategic Infrastructure Outsourcing Partner

AstraZeneca, a biopharmaceutical company in December 2011 chose HCL Technologies (HCL) as a strategic infrastructure outsourcing partner. HCL will be responsible for the provision, management and transformation of AstraZeneca's global hosting and collaboration environment.

As part of the five-year engagement, HCL will be responsible for managing AstraZeneca's entire data centre environment across over 60 locations globally. Also as a a part of the agreement, HCL will host and migrate some of the existing large data centres into state-of-the-art facilities.

In addition, HCL will manage AstraZeneca's global collaboration environment, including e-mail, messaging and collaboration services for users worldwide. It will deliver transformational projects, including server virtualisation, storage and back-up transformation and implementation of the hybrid cloud.