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 into state-of-the-art facilities. 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, organizations across the world are facing unique challenges of rising operational and input costs, demanding customers and changing regulatory environment.  More than ever, organizations are looking at partners who create value while managing these challenges.