HP helps Centrica for Technology Migration
HP Enterprise Services has announced that Centrica has signed a seven-year outsourcing services agreement worth more than $400 million. With the new agreement, HP will enable Centrica to move to a utility-based private cloud computing environment that will support Centrica's change program, improve speed of deployment, help lower costs and support the company's environmental objectives.
"Centrica is striving to improve our ability to respond to market changes to supply gas and electricity to homes and businesses more efficiently," said Dave Bickerton, Group Chief Information Officer, Centrica. "We value HP's utility computing capabilities and quality solutions that are flexible, cost-effective and help reduce our carbon footprint."
HP will deliver Utility Services that support Centrica's migration to a private cloud- and utility-based computing environment enabling greater flexibility to reliably respond to changing business conditions. Centrica will have access to next-generation technology with just the right computing capacity to meet its needs with minimum cost and environmental impact. Centrica also will have access to HP's enterprise cloud-computing services to enable better data access and new products and services for its customers.
"The combination of HP's technology and services - such as cloud computing - helps us create the innovative, integrated, end-to-end solutions customers like Centrica need to more effectively and efficiently achieve market, cost and environmental objectives," said Mike Nefkens, Senior Vice-President & General Manager, HP Enterprise Services, EMEA.
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