HCL Tech bags 5-year order from News Corp's UK arm

Our Bureau

New Delhi, Dec 8

HCL Technologies on Tuesday announced it has bagged a multi-million pound, five-year infrastructure management and transformation order from News International - a U.K. subsidiary of News Corporation.

The company produces some of the U.K.'s most widely read newspapers including The Times, The Sun and The Sunday Times. HCL Technologies will manage News International's data centre and network environment. Initially, it will involve transformation projects such as migrating operating systems to lower-cost industry standard solutions, business continuity improvements and virtualisation, consolidation and standardisation of storage and servers.

The Indian company is already working with other News Corporation companies for their technology infrastructure management requirements, a statement said.

“We see the benefit of working with the same global partners across News Corp,” said Mr Andrew Hickey, CIO of News International and a member of News Corp's CIO Council.

HCL Technologies clientele includes over 40 media and entertainment companies globally.The company had recently announced wins from Reader's Digest Association and Viacom Inc.