Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Mexican unit said Monday that it signed a $100 million technology outsourcing services contract with Coca-Cola FEMSA, the Coke bottler in Mexico.
The five-year agreement will support Coca-Cola FEMSA's Latin American business. Hewlett-Packard Mexico will handle the consolidation of 348 locations to a single data center in Mexico as well as migrate some applications and server monitoring and management to locations in Brazil and Argentina.
“After experiencing sustained growth across Latin America, these additional efforts to centralize and standardize will give us the support we need to find new opportunities to put beverages in the hands of the Latin American people,” said Hector Calva, chief information officer, Coca-Cola FEMSA. “HP knows our business and industry well. With the team’s extensive experience in data center consolidation, we will have the technology foundation and support critical for our growth plans and future success.”
“In a region such as Latin America with its many opportunities for growth, companies that develop an efficient technology infrastructure and business procedures to support an ‘Instant-On’ enterprise will be better able to take advantage of those opportunities,” said Octavio Marquez, managing director, HP Mexico. “Our industry knowledge and decade-long relationship with Coca-Cola FEMSA, as well as our ability to scale when and where the client grows, will continue to help the company achieve its goals.”
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Hewlett-Packard will continue to provide data center services and storage services to manage and support Coca-Cola FEMSA's data center environment.
Last week, Hewlett-Packard, the world's biggest technology company by revenue, received investor approval for the 13 directors it put up for election. The company is trying to move past the scandal over the ouster of CEO Mark Hurd in August.
