BT and HP sign up for $660m deal extension

AS PART OF the marital commitment between British Telecom (BT) and Hewlett Packard (HP), BT has signed a $660m contract amendment to its dearly beloved to extend the transformation of its technology environment.

This contract will "reinforce BT’s ability to meet customer needs today and into the future, while delivering significant cost reductions", according to the marketing mumbo jumbo.

The current contract, which is in place for the next seven and-a-half years, agrees that HP will provide and deploy (as well as support) BTs servers and storage. HP is also bound to deliver service desk and end-user s ervices to a population of over 100,000 users across BT in the UK.

David Butcher of BT said, "This contract renewal offers BT competitively priced services across a number of key areas of our IT infrastructure,” and that the deal will, "generate a platform for accelerated innovation and the delivery of services for BT customers".

Francesco Serafini, of HP concurs: "HP will support the management and transformation of the BT technology environment into an increasingly agile, cost-effective infrastructure designed to deliver what their business requires" . µ