BWI: HCL Infosystems MEA and Mercator to Manage Flydubai IT Infrastructure

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Source: HCL Infosystems Ltd
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 12:59 PM IST (07:29 AM GMT)
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HCL Infosystems MEA and Mercator to Manage Flydubai IT Infrastructure


New Delhi, Delhi, India, Wednesday, November 10, 2010 -- (Business Wire India) -- - HCL Infosystems signs a multi-million dollar agreement
- Collaboration with Mercator will ensure provision of critical applications for flydubai
- flydubai to lower IT expenses and ensure cost benefit for its customers

HCL Infosystems MEA, Dubai based subsidiary of HCL Infosystems, India's premier ICT system integration, Hardware and Services Company, today announced its agreement with Mercator, the IT division of the Emirates Group, to manage 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 & 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."

Mr. Rajeev Asija, Executive Vice President, System Integration & International Business, HCL Infosystems Ltd 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. We are confident that we will continue to grow relationships and forge partnerships and further expand with new products and innovative ICT solutions."

Mr. Fayyaz Alam, Vice President, Production Services for 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.

About HCL Infosystems Ltd:

HCL Infosystems Ltd, with revenue (LTM) of US$ 2.6 billion (Rs. 12, 122 crore) is India's premier hardware, services and ICT systems integration company offering a wide spectrum of ICT products that includes Computing, Storage, Networking, Security, Telecom, Imaging and Retail. HCL is a one-stop-shop for all the ICT requirements of an organisation. India's leading System Integration and Infrastructure Management Services Organisation, HCL has specialised expertise across verticals including Telecom, BFSI, eGovernance & Power. HCL has India's largest distribution and retail network, taking to market a range of Digital Lifestyle products in partnership with leading global ICT brands, including Apple, Cisco, Ericsson, Kingston, Kodak, Konica Minolta, Microsoft, Nokia, Toshiba, and many more. HCL today has India's largest vertically integrated computer manufacturing facility with over three decades of electronic manufacturing experience & HCL desktops is the largest selling brand into the enterprise space. With India's largest ICT services network that reaches to every corner of India, HCL's award winning Support Services makes it the preferred choice of enterprise and consumers, alike. HCL Infosystems has a 100% subsidiary that addresses the physical security technology system integration market. The subsidiary leverages technology to build a security framework called 'Safe State' that safe guard's life, infrastructure & society. For more information please visit us at www.hclinfosystems.in

About Mercator:

Mercator, part of the Emirates Group - comprising Emirates Airline, Dnata and their subsidiary companies - is a provider of business technology solutions and services to the global airline and transportation logistics industries.

With offices in the Middle East and Thailand, Mercator provides the IT systems and services that support world-wide operations of award winning major carriers, hybrid, low-cost and regional airlines in the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific.

Mercator's teams of IT professionals work at the cutting-edge of technology to deliver its customers across the globe with the IT business solutions to help grow their businesses.

Mercator's six business divisions have been designed to best serve its customers needs. They include: Passenger Solutions, Cargo & Logistics Solutions, Customer Relationship Management & Loyalty Solutions, Financial Management Solutions, Safety Solutions and Business Technology Services.

For more information, visit: www.mercator.com.

About flydubai:

flydubai, Dubai's first low cost airline, was established by the Government of Dubai in March 2008 and began commercial flights on June 1st, 2009. flydubai aims to make travel a little less complex, a little less stressful and a little less expensive, and thereby increase the number of people travelling to and from the UAE.

flydubai currently has a fleet of nine brand new Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft and operates to 24 destinations: Beirut-Lebanon, Amman-Jordan, Damascus, Aleppo and Latakia-Syria, Alexandria, Luxor and Assiut-Egypt, Djibouti, Doha-Qatar, Baku-Azerbaijan, Khartoum-Sudan, Bahrain, Kathmandu-Nepal, Muscat-Oman, Kabul-Afghanistan, Kuwait, Lucknow-India, Istanbul-Turkey, Karachi-Pakistan, Colombo-Sri Lanka, Erbil-Iraq, Yekaterinburg and Samara-Russia. Flights to Sulaimaniyah-Iraq and Yerevan-Armenia begin in November.

Bookings can be made on www.flydubai.com, through the call centre (+9714 3010800) and with travel partners.


CONTACT DETAILS
Ashutosh Bhattacharya, Head- Corporate Communications, HCL Infosystems Ltd, +91 9958644228, ashutosh.bhattacharya@hcl.com
Richa Chauhan, Hanmer MSL, +91 9999492599, richachauhan@hanmermsl.com
Rashi Mehrotra, Hanmer MSL, +91 9958594111, rashi.mehrotra@hanmermsl.com

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