HP Wins $67 Million Spain Government Cloud Contract
June 28, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Charles Babcock.
The government of Catalonia, Spain, has signed a $67 million contract with HP to transform the government’s data centers to a cloud-based infrastructure in order to operate its compute services more efficiently. The agreement runs for 10 years.
HP will be charged with moving Catalonia’s infrastructure from government-owned data centers to secure, HP-managed cloud infrastructure run by HP Spain in Barcelona, capital of the Spanish state. The 7.5 million Catalans are a recognized nationality within Spain, and will hold a vote in 2014 on whether they wish to be independent of Spain. The state is Spain’s easternmost, bordering both the Mediterranean and France…
HP already is a manager of Catalonia’s compute infrastructure through its IT Infrastructure Outsourcing Services and Applications Services. It will continue to do so as it migrates the infrastructure to a virtual private cloud inside a Barcelona HP Enterprise Cloud data center…
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