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posted on 14 February 2008 09:38

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HP was won a 7-year, $675 million outsourcing deal from Unilever involving servers, networking and storage.

HP will provide an infrastructure designed to quickly adapt to the changing needs of Unilever’s business by standardizing, virtualizing and optimizing Unilever’s enterprise computing environment .

Unilever, a consumer goods manufacturing colossus, is keeping its mature and stable European IT infrastructure in-house but everything else goes to HP. Some 250 Unilever employees will now join HP as part of the deal.

The contract includes around 4,500 multi-vendor Unix and Windows storage and server boxes and software. HP will provide management of Unilever’s IT processes and services, including: corporate data centers, messaging and directory services, Internet and intranet systems hosting, and disaster recovery services. HP also will manage the third-party contracts within Unilever’s technology environment in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Africa, Turkey and Middle East.

In North America Unilever is said to use IBM SAN switches and both EMC and HP products.

HP will manage Unilever's virtualization strategy and work with BT, Microsoft and SAP on application development.