Saturday, November 21, 2009

NIIT Technologies partners with Hitachi Information Systems to offer Cloud computing services

NIIT Technologies Limited, a leading global IT solutions organisation announced its partnership with Hitachi Information Systems, Ltd, a leading provider of IT infrastructure services in Japan, to offer services in cloud computing.


Cloud Computing is an emerging megatrend which is standardized, IT capability delivered via the Internet in a pay-per-use and self-service manner. NIIT Technologies pursuing its non linear services model of business will be an early entrant in this space. Through this partnership NIIT Technologies and Hitachi Information Systems will provide unmatched value based on the strengths of both companies.

“Hitachi with its reliable and scalable infrastructure would own the cloud, while NIIT Technologies will harness it’s competencies and world class process capability in Remote Infrastructure Managed Services to operate the cloud” said Mr. Arvind Thakur, CEO, NIIT Technologies Ltd. “Together our customers will experience the highest quality of reliability, security and service” he added.

With Cloud Computing gaining impetus, both companies will be able to offer the complete portfolio of services around the cloud infrastructure to cater to the changing IT landscape.

“Abundant IT business experience of NIIT Technologies in global markets and Hitachi Information system's data center design & operational experience in Japanese market over many years are now united. This union will be used to provide advanced IT service in Asia.” said Mr. Iwao Hara, President and CEO, Hitachi Information Systems Ltd.

To begin with Hitachi Information Systems would leverage NIIT Technologies data centre in Bangkok and create the first hub outside Japan networked to their existing infrastructure. Drawing on the benefits of scale, shared infrastructure and standard applications, this partnership will drive down costs while increasing the speed and agility of deploying applications.
The operations are expected to begin by the first quarter of the next fiscal.

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