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HP Mexico and Coca-Cola FEMSA have signed a five-year agreement for HP to provide technology outsourcing services to build and manage the drinking giant’s converged infrastructure.
coca-Cola plans to grow in Latin America, and says the new services and infrastructure contract will support this, making its IT leaner through consolidation.
It comes at a cost of more than US$100m for the brand, and grows on a relationship already established in 2000.
Coca-Cola wants to consolidate 348 data center operations into one single data center in Mexico and migrate mission-critical SAP applications and servers to monitor and manage HP Best Shore locations in Brazil and Argentina.
HP will also provide security services from its global delivery centers in Costa Rica.
The new data center will be fitted out with HP servers, storage and backup systems.
HP will also manage Coca-Cola’s international telecommunications operators in the region and network management services for the LAN / WAN environment of the company. It will also provide application hosting services for SAP Business Coca-Cola FEMSA.
the contract also extends HP’s agreement for the management of infrastructure in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Venezuela working with its alliance partners including SAP and Microsoft.