A five-year outsourcing deal with Computacenter is expected to slash operational costs by 25 per cent at IT firm Parity. Under the contract, Computacenter will be responsible for managing Parity’s entire IT infrastructure – including its datacentre – until early 2011.
David Conkleton, head of Managed Services at Parity, commented: “This agreement will enable us to make up-front savings of around 25 per cent on our IT overheads. We also expect ongoing IT transformation projects to deliver both financial and efficiency benefits in the future.”
Both Parity’s desktop and datacentre infrastructures are being refreshed as part of the contract. By the end of June 2006, Computacenter expects to have reduced Parity’s server estate by a third using virtualisation technologies. As part of the managed service, Computacenter now owns the majority of Parity’s IT estate and hosts the company’s datacentre at its dedicated facility.
“By partnering with Computacenter, we are able to draw on its extensive infrastructure management resources and best practice skills. As a result, we are able to both de-risk and improve IT service delivery,” commented Conkleton.
