Rolls-Royce has awarded a five-year contract to HP to host its applications,as part of the company's multi-vendor IT strategy.
The news follows HP's loss of its large 12-year outsourcing deal with Rolls-Royce in March,with Capgemini named as its service integrator to manage its multi-sourced outsourcing environment.
Simon Ricketts,CIO at Rolls-Royce,said the deal with HP would build on the company's existing relationship."[This]represents the next step in our journey toward an industry-leading,multivendor IT ecosystem to support our current and future global business priorities,"he said.
Under the new deal HP will also manage the Rolls-Royce remote server and storage environments in Brazil,Canada,France,Germany and Norway.
HP will provide datacentre facilities worldwide to manage Rolls-Royce applications and data centre infrastructure.It will provide maintenance and support services for the Rolls-Royce engineering,manufacturing,customer service and other back office and information management applications.
The applications management and support contract will provide Rolls-Royce with a proactive management service that will improve availability to users,achieve flexibility and keep the portfolio up to date.
