HP Extends Outsourcing Services Contract with Unilever for $675 Million and 7 Years
Including 4,500 multi-vendor UNIX and Windows servers and storage environments
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on March 20, 2008 at 3:37 pmHP and Unilever today announced an
extension of their relationship with the signing of a seven-year
outsourcing contract for the management of Unilever’s technology
infrastructure in the Americas, Asia, Africa, Turkey and Middle East.
HP will provide an infrastructure designed to quickly adapt to the
changing needs of Unilever’s business by standardizing, virtualizing
and optimizing Unilever’s enterprise computing environment in the
regions above as well as its client services environment in Asia
Pacific, Africa, Turkey and the Middle East.
Operating as a single point of contact for Unilever’s enterprise
computing environment, HP will work with Unilever’s strategic partners,
including SAP, Microsoft and BT, to help reduce costs and ease the
integration of new applications. HP also will manage the third party
contracts within Unilever’s technology environment in the Americas,
Asia Pacific, Africa, Turkey and Middle East.
Through this agreement, HP will provide management of Unilever’s IT
processes and services, including: corporate data centers, messaging
and directory services, Internet and intranet systems hosting, disaster
recovery services, and the outsourcing of 4,500 multi-vendor UNIX and
Windows servers and storage environments.
As part of this agreement, approximately 250 Unilever employees will
transfer to HP. "In this space, HP has demonstrated a distinctive
collaborative approach combined with a clear expertise in the delivery
of global services," said Neil Cameron, chief information officer,
Unilever. "This agreement is a natural extension of our current
relationship. The intention between both parties is to leverage HP’s
scale, expertise and industry leadership to ensure Unilever has access
to world-class technology at substantially lower costs."
"We look forward to helping Unilever further transform its technology
environment to better align with the business. This will improve
performance and lower operational costs," said Pablo Sanchez-Lozano,
senior vice president and general manager, HP Services – EMEA. "While
HP delivers consistent and predictable service all over the globe for
Unilever, they can focus their energies and resources on growing their
business."
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