Xerox Corporation has signed a six-year ITO contract with HCL Technologies. The deal covers data centre services and transformation.

The contract will span mid-range services, business continuity and disaster recovery for Xerox’s information management operations. HCL will manage data centre hosting and migration, virtualisation, 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.

“Data centre 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. “HCL has demonstrated their leadership position in delivering global, transformational infrastructure services.”