HP announces deal with Centrica

HP Enterprise Services UK has signed a seven-year agreement with gas giant Centrica to offer outsourcing services.

Under the deal, valued at more than $400 million (£246 million), HP will help Centrica to adopt a utility-based private cloud computing model.

The cloud computing platform will support the firm's environmental objectives, boost the speed of deployment as well as help reduce costs.

Dave Bickerton, group chief information officer at Centrica, said: "Centrica is striving to improve our ability to respond to market changes to supply gas and electricity to homes and businesses more efficiently.

"We value HP's utility computing capabilities and quality solutions that are flexible, cost-effective and help reduce our carbon footprint."

Centrica is hoping to respond to changing business conditions in a better way, with the help of a private cloud and utility-based computing arrangement.

Mike Nefkens, senior vice president and general manager at HP Enterprise Services EMEA, said: "The combination of HP's technology and services - such as cloud computing - helps us create the innovative, integrated, end-to-end solutions customers like Centrica need to more effectively and efficiently achieve market, cost and environmental objectives."

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