Noida based HCL Technologies Ltd. has entered into a six-year, multi-regional data center services and transformation engagement with Xerox Corporation. The contract will span mid-range services, business continuity and disaster recovery for Xerox's information management operations.

As part of the deal, HCL will manage data center hosting and migration, virtualization, consolidation and storage architecture services across North America and Europe. In addition, HCL will provide architecture and consulting services for new technology and system design, adoption and lifecycle improvement.

HCL will use its business service management process to centralize and standardize Xerox's data centers' infrastructure. The engagement will also leverage HCL's unique "zero-business" disruption based transition framework to ensure an accelerated risk-free transition across distributed regional data centers.

"Data center environments are the heart of our business operations and we look to partner with companies that can manage our centers and take them to the next level," said John McDermott, chief information officer, Xerox.

R Srikrishna, senior vice president, North America, HCL Technologies ISD, said, “This engagement is a significant milestone for HCL and further enhances our credibility for managing complex, multi-regional data centers."

HCL pioneered the concept of Remote Infrastructure Management (RIM) with a co-sourcing engagement model, which has added substantial value to customers. The company was cited as a leader in Global IT Infrastructure Outsourcing in an independent vendor evaluation study by Forrester Wave TM, Q2, 2007 and No.1 ‘Specialty Offshore Infrastructure Services Provider' by NeoIT and ‘Managing Offshore' magazine.