CSC reveals £25m Virgin Atlantic deal

CSC has today revealed a deal it recently struck with Virgin Atlantic is valued at £25m.

Under the deal - which will run for five years with a two-year extension option - CSC will supply the airline with datacentre hosting and redevelop its global website.

Virgin Atlantic IT director Mike Cope recently told silicon.com the company had scheduled in the replacement of two of its legacy datacentres by CSC in an effort to shave costs, get more performance out of existing hardware and provide better disaster recovery for its systems.

"We will virtualise all of our datacentre equipment - so where as now we have one instance of Windows per piece of hardware, in the new environment we will probably move up to 10 instances of Windows on one virtualised piece of hardware," he said.

"We are looking to double utilisation and reduce the hardware by a factor of four, much of it is end of life anyway and needs replacing so now is the right time to do this," Cope added.

CSC will take over the running of the datacentres from the middle of this year.

The outsourcer has also revealed it's signed a framework agreement with Virgin Management, Virgin's UK-based management services company, which could see other businesses in the brand use similar CSC services to those taken up by Virgin Atlantic.