New Delhi Sep 26 (IANS) Global technology company HCL Technologies (HCL) on Wednesday announced a five-year infrastructure services deal with Britain-based mining firm Anglo American.
The deal requires HCL to support Anglo American through the adoption of Cloud reducing Anglo American s global data center footprint through consolidation of its on-premise infrastructure and partial migration to an Infrastructure-as-a-Service operating model.
HCL said it would also continue to provide regional and local service desk support and end-user computing services.
Anglo American runs mining operations with a workforce of 69 000 people worldwide.
HCL was enlisted as Anglo American s IT services partner in 2013.
Through the renewed deal HCL said it would further improve quality and consistency by standardising and centralising IT infrastructure services across both organisations.
"This renewal underscores a key tenet of HCL s success strategy demonstrating our ongoing commitment to satisfying customers and building relationships that evolve over the long term " said Sandeep Saxena Senior Vice President HCL Technologies.

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