DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), a leading global provider of technology services and part of the Fortune 500 companies, announced today the signing of a contract with Alstom to manage the organization’s entire information system for the next five years.
Extending their long-standing partnership, DXC will provide support to Alstom in its journey towards digital transformation and help achieve its goal of delivering innovative and sustainable mobility solutions.
To become a major player in the global transportation market, Alstom has been optimizing its cloud infrastructure and has renewed its trust in DXC to help address new challenges in the mobility sector.
As part of the new contract, DXC will develop an optimal and cost-effective cloud strategy in a large project spanning 122 physical locations. With advanced tools and agile methodologies, DXC will streamline Alstom’s essential IT architecture, modernizing their enterprise applications, including SAP. To secure data and control costs, DXC will assist Alstom in maintaining critical data center infrastructures at specific sites.
“To accelerate our agility and lay the groundwork for future growth, we needed a secure and flexible IT infrastructure,” explained Stéphane Detruiseux, Chief Information Security Officer and Vice President of Technology at Alstom. “Migrating and optimizing our IT infrastructure to public and hybrid cloud environments is a key element of this transformation, and working with DXC allows us to choose the most efficient and cost-effective solutions.”
“Alstom is a global leading manufacturer and we are proud to have been selected to strengthen their innovation strategy and advance their digital transformation with next-generation, cloud-enabled enterprise solutions,” said Chris Drumgoole, Executive Vice President and Global Leader of Cloud Infrastructure and ITO at DXC Technology. “We have already implemented DXC Platform X to automate Alstom’s processes and consolidate workloads into a highly virtualized single solution, and have seamlessly migrated over 1,000 virtual machines to Microsoft Azure.”
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DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global enterprises manage their critical systems and operations by modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability in public, private, and hybrid clouds. The world’s largest companies and public sector organizations rely on DXC to deploy services that drive new levels of performance, competitiveness, and customer experience in their IT environments.