HCL Info ties up with Mercator

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Infosystems MEA
announced its agreement with Mercator, the IT division of the
Emirates Group, to manage the IT infrastructure for flydubai. HCL
Infosystems will provide IT infrastructure for hosting services
through Mercator's two data centers that will host flydubai's
applications through a private virtual cloud and will manage
communication links, to access externally hosted services. HCL
Infosystems will provide, manage and support all end-user devices and
services for flydubai. This multi-million dollar partnership will
help flydubai optimize provisioning of critical services such as
check-in, departure control, network planning, flight and crew
operations, aircraft maintenance and other back-office systems. The
partnership will also ensure complete management of the
infrastructure, day-to-day operations, vendors, connectivity and
capacity. Ghaith Al Ghaith, CEO of flydubai said, “Flydubai is
always searching for ways to reduce our costs, so that we can pass on
our savings to our customers. We are delighted, to be partnering with
Mercator and HCL Infosystems, to ensure our IT systems continue to
meet our demands for highly efficient and cost-effective solutions.”

Rajeev Asija, Executive
VP-System Integration and International Business, HCL Infosystems
said, “We are excited with our recent entry into the Middle East
market and hope to draw tremendous synergies with our solutions stack
and the opportunity that exists in this part of the world. This early
success clearly signifies our potential to deliver state-of-the-art
solutions, that can address needs of customers across geographies.”
Fayyaz Alam, VP-Production
Services, Mercator said, “The partnership with HCL Infosystems will
enable us to deliver a robust infrastructure platform, that will
enable flydubai to bring in new IT services and scale up the existing
IT systems in line with their growth plans. We have looked at various
options to deliver this and we found the partnership with HCL
Infosystems to be the most cost-effective and optimal way to meet
flydubai's requirements.” HCL Infosystems will bring
rich experience to the IT infrastructure of flydubai. The solution is
optimized, to save cost without compromising the required performance
standards. The hi-tech infrastructure, based on the state-of-art
solutions, will make sure of optimum utilization of resources for all
mission critical applications.