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Telecomworldwire, August 8, 2008
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-8 August 2008-IBM wins outsourcing agreement with South American industrial group(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com
IBM (NYSE: IBM), an IT technology and services company, has announced on 8 August that it signed an agreement in June this year with Brazilian industrial group Saint-Gobain to provide the group with outsourced IT infrastructure.
IBM will be responsible for storage on demand hosting services, administration, support and IT systems management. The contract also includes migration of all servers installed at Saint-Gobain headquarters in So Paulo to two data centres of IBM's Global Delivery Center (GDC), in Hortolndia.
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The current Saint-Gobain infrastructure team, which currently has 37 professionals responsible for IT Operations including production, support, architecture and projects, will now focus on business expansion, identifying needs and defining strategies.
No financial details of the agreement were disclosed.
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