REDMOND (dpa-AFX) - India-based software exporter Infosys Technologies Ltd. (INFOSYSTCH, 500209, INFY) said that it expanded its partnership with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) to help enterprises transform their business and tap opportunities in a cloud-first, mobile-first world.
Infosys has thousands of Microsoft Certified Professionals. It will now expand its capabilities for analytics and other service offerings on Microsoft technologies. Infosys will also establish a global center of excellence for Microsoft Azure Machine Learning capable of training more than 1,000 engineers by the end of fiscal year 2015.
Infosys will accelerate its efforts to design frameworks, tools and accelerators to improve end user productivity for the digital workforce on Microsoft cloud platforms. These platforms, including Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, complement Azure solutions.
In a separate press release, Infosys announced the expansion of its partnership with Hitachi Data Systems or HDS to bring next-generation infrastructure and data center transformation solutions to enterprises. The new solutions will help improve operational efficiencies and facilitate smooth transition of their IT infrastructure to new cloud-based environments.
Infosys noted that it will also establish a center of excellence to co-create pay-per-use solutions with HDS. Enterprises can then convert a significant share of their capital expenditure, related to infrastructure and data center management, into operational expenditure.
Infosys and HDS will create several private cloud offerings to be delivered as-a-service related to ERP, CRM, Exchange and Collaboration, with flexible pricing models. This will help enterprises reduce capital expenditure on their cloud infrastructure and optimize their private and public cloud investments.
Infosys and HDS are collaborating to deploy SAP HANA on a HDS SAP HANA Appliance in both scale-up and scale-out solutions.
Separately, Infosys announced a global partnership with Huawei, a leading global information and communication technology or ICT solution provider. The companies will jointly offer enterprise customers cloud, big data and communication solutions, along with other enterprise-oriented services which will combine Huawei's cloud infrastructure and global IT service expertise from Infosys.
Huawei and Infosys will explore setting up a joint lab in China to enable better delivery in all areas of the partnership.
In addition, Infosys and Huawei will further strengthen their existing partnership in the Huawei Business Process and Information Technology space.
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