HCL Infosystems MEA and Mercator to manage flydubai IT infrastructure

HCL Infosystems MEA, Dubai-based

subsidiary of HCL Infosystems 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 datacenters 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 and 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, 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.” Rajeev Asija, Executive VP-System

Integration and International Business, HCL Infosystems 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.”