Alstom, the global power-generation and transport conglomerate based in France, is outsourcing consolidation and operations of its international data center infrastructure to CSC, a massive Falls Church, Virginia-based IT outsourcer, the companies announced Monday.

Under the five-year deal – subject to regulatory approvals – CSC will use a combination of its private-cloud infrastructure, its own and Alstom’s data centers to consolidate and centralize the multinational’s servers and storage.

Claude Czechowski, president of CSC’s South and West EMEA group, said his company’s offering to Alstom would be provided on an “as-a-service” basis. It will enable the client to “quickly deploy infrastructure, applications and business processes that support their evolving business strategies and meet their complex enterprise integration requirements.”

The consolidation project for Alstom will take place across more than 50 countries.

CSC’s private-cloud services are called BizCloud. The company says customers can bring workloads online using the BizCloud infrastructure in 10 weeks.

In addition to BizCloud, Alstom will take advantage of CSC’s Storage-as-a-Service offering, a fully managed storage-on-demand service. True to the infrastructure-cloud model, the customer pays only for the storage capacity they use.