HP Helps Alcatel-Lucent Create State-of-the-art Data Center

HP Helps Alcatel-Lucent Create State-of-the-art Data Center

HP and Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) today announced the successful migration to a new state-of-the-art, Tier Four data center.(1)

Located just outside of Paris in Marcoussis, France, it is the most robust, secure and fault-tolerant type of data center available to date.

Alcatel-Lucent is consolidating its 25 data centers worldwide into six locations by the end of 2009. The Marcoussis center is the showcase for the company’s consolidation project and is a demonstration of how Alcatel-Lucent’s data center operations are being transformed into business-driven assets for generating new revenue streams.

The new data center supports Alcatel-Lucent’s growing and dynamic businesses with an infrastructure built on its own award-winning OmniSwitch networking products and HP’s industry-standard servers. The center is designed to handle increasing volumes of multimedia content, automated business processes and new application and service business models.

In addition, surplus capacity will be leased to other companies through Data IV, the company’s joint venture with Colony Capital, to further reduce the total cost of ownership of the data center for Alcatel-Lucent.

To ensure the success of the data center migration project at Marcoussis, Alcatel-Lucent turned to HP Services, the fourth largest technology services organization in the world.(2) HP Services designed and implemented the redundant architecture to enable data replication, provide continuous availability and enhance systems security.

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