Infosys Inks Deal With Huawei; Expands Hitachi, Microsoft Collaboration

Infosys on Thursday announced a new partnership with Huawei, and expansion of partnerships with Hitachi Data Systems and Microsoft. The company said the partnerships are aimed at strengthening and widening the scope of solutions the company offers in the areas of cloud, big data, analytics, communications, infrastructure, and data centre solutions.

The Indian IT services giant said it is expanding its decade-long partnership with Microsoft to "help enterprises transform their business and tap opportunities in a cloud-first, mobile-first world." It will now expand its capabilities for analytics and other service offerings on Microsoft technologies. Infosys will also establish a global centre of excellence for Microsoft Azure Machine Learning, capable of training over 1,000 engineers by the end of fiscal year 2015.

Infosys also expands its partnership with Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) to "bring next-generation infrastructure and data center transformation solutions to enterprises." The company says new solutions will help improve operational efficiencies and facilitate smooth transition of IT infrastructure to new cloud-based environments. Infosys will also establish a centre of excellence to co-create 'pay-per-use' solutions with HDS.

The company said it has enters a global partnership with Huawei to jointly offer enterprise customers cloud, big data and communications solutions, along with other enterprise-oriented services, which will combine Huawei's Cloud infrastructure and global IT service expertise from Infosys.

Huawei and Infosys will explore setting up a joint lab in China to enable better delivery in all areas of the partnership, the companies said.

Infosys, led by Chief Executive Vishal Sikka, has been planning to boost investment in cloud computing, smartphone apps and other new technologies to win more high-margin outsourcing contracts.

Written with inputs from Reuters