Vodafone India extends IT services contract with IBM by 5 yrs

BANGALORE, INDIA: Vodafone India has renewed its contract with IBM with a new 5-year multi-million dollar deal for managing IT services and support for its IT infrastructure and applications environment.

IBM will support Vodafone India’s IT environment transition into IBM hybrid cloud, allowing the company to leverage and integrate existing IT resources and data assets with private cloud environments.

It will support Vodafone India’s speed to market and improve the efficiency of its network and IT operations.

IBM India MD, Vanitha Narayanan said, “IBM’s leading edge capabilities will help strengthen Vodafone India’s vision of delivering differentiated client experiences.”

DD Mishra’s, Research Director, Gartner said, “Renewal of Vodafone India and IBM deal appears to be more strategic in nature. Initially the deal was more around traditional infrastructure and application services but now IBM and Vodafone have an opportunity of combining more industrialized and digital options which can be leveraged to drive better value."

Vishant Vora, Director, Technology & Network, Vodafone India, said, “Partnering with IBM will help us enhance customer experience with intuitive capabilities and build a cost optimized, flexible and scalable IT infrastructure.”