NIIT Technologies partners with Hitachi Information Systems to offer cloud computing services

New Delhi: NIIT Technologies announced its partnership with Hitachi Information Systems to offer services in cloud computing.

“Hitachi with its reliable and scalable infrastructure would own the cloud, while NIIT Technologies will harness its competencies and world class process capability in remote infrastructure managed services to operate the cloud, ” said Arvind Thakur, CEO, NIIT Technologies. “Together our customers will experience the highest quality of reliability, security and service,” he added.

With cloud computing gaining impetus, both companies will be able to offer the complete portfolio of services around the cloud infrastructure to cater to the changing IT landscape.

“Abundant IT business experience of NIIT Technologies in global markets and Hitachi Information System's data center design and operational experience in Japanese market over many years are now united. This union will be used to provide advanced IT service in Asia,” said Iwao Hara, President and CEO, Hitachi Information Systems.

To begin with, Hitachi Information Systems would leverage NIIT Technologies' data center in Bangkok and create the first hub outside Japan, networked to their existing infrastructure. Drawing on the benefits of scale, shared infrastructure and standard applications, this partnership will drive down costs while increasing the speed and agility of deploying applications.

The operations are expected to begin by the first quarter of the next fiscal.