5-year IT services agreement in support of
Alstom's sustainable mobility initiative
PARIS, Nov. 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- DXC
Technology (NYSE: DXC), a leading Fortune 500 global
technology services provider, today announced the signing of a
contract with Alstom to manage the organization's entire
information system for the next five years.
Extending the two organizations' long-standing partnership, DXC
will support Alstom in its digital transformation journey and help
achieve its goal of providing innovative and sustainable mobility
solutions.
In order to become one of the world's top performers in the
transportation market, Alstom has been optimizing its cloud
infrastructure and has extended its trust in DXC to assist in
addressing new challenges in the mobility sector.
As part of the new contract, DXC will develop an optimal,
cost-effective cloud strategy on a large-scale project encompassing
122 physical locations. With advanced tools and agile
methodologies, DXC will streamline Alstom's essential IT
architecture, modernizing its enterprise applications including
SAP. To protect data and control costs, DXC will help Alstom
maintain critical data center infrastructure at specific
sites.
"To accelerate our agility and lay the foundations for future
growth, we needed secure and flexible IT infrastructure," explained
Stéphane Detruiseux, Chief Information Security Officer and Vice
President of Technology at Alstom. "Migrating and optimizing our IT
infrastructure to public and hybrid cloud environments is a key
element of this transformation and working with DXC allows us to
choose the most efficient and cost-effective solutions."
"Alstom is a world leading manufacturer and we are proud to have
been selected to bolster its innovation strategy and drive forward
its digital transformation with cutting-edge, cloud-enabled
business solutions," said Chris
Drumgoole, Executive Vice President and Global Lead, Cloud
Infrastructure & ITO at DXC Technology. "We have already
implemented DXC Platform X to automate Alstom's processes and
consolidate workloads into a single, highly virtualized solution,
and have seamlessly migrated over 1,000 virtual machines to
Microsoft Azure."
Forward Looking
Statements
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exclusively relate to historical facts constitute "forward-looking
statements." These statements represent current expectations and
beliefs, and no assurance can be given that the results described
in such statements will be achieved. Such statements are subject to
numerous assumptions, risks, uncertainties, and other factors that
could cause actual results to differ materially from those
described in such statements, many of which are outside of our
control. For a written description of these factors, see the
section titled "Risk Factors" in DXC's Annual Report on Form 10-K
for the fiscal year ended March 31,
2023, DXC's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarterly
periods ended June 30, 2023 and
September 30, 2023, and any updating
information in subsequent SEC filings. No assurance can be given
that any goal or plan set forth in any forward-looking statement
can or will be achieved, and readers are cautioned not to place
undue reliance on such statements which speak only as of the date
they are made. We do not undertake any obligation to update or
release any revisions to any forward-looking statement or to report
any events or circumstances after the date of this report or to
reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events except as required
by law.
About DXC
Technology
DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC) helps global companies run their
mission-critical systems and operations while modernizing IT,
optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and
scalability across public, private and hybrid clouds. The world's
largest companies and public sector organizations trust DXC to
deploy services to drive new levels of performance,
competitiveness, and customer experience across their IT estates.
Learn more about how we deliver excellence for our customers and
colleagues at DXC.com.
Antoine Roussel
Marketing & Communications DXC BeNeLux and France
aroussel@dxc.com
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