CA and BT seal Northern Ireland data deal

£250k for Belfast data centre...

By Will Sturgeon, 18 May 2005 16:00

NEWS Computer Associates has signed a deal with BT to provide enterprise management software for the UK incumbent's Northern Ireland data centre in Belfast.

Among the benefits BT is hoping to see are increased security and reduced complexity. To that end the £250,000 deal will utilise CA's eTrust Security Command Center and CA's Unicenter Service Desk. BT will be able to constantly monitor and provide remote management of customer kit in the data centre.

The deal is part of a wider £1.4m upgrade at the data centre where BT provides managed hosting and co-location services for more than 100 corporate and government customers in Northern Ireland.

Gerry Robinson, managed services and hosting manager at BT NI, said it was the breadth of CA's offering that appealed as it provided services which would previously have been covered by at least two vendors.

"We were delighted to find a supplier that could assist us with delivering infrastructure management and security requirements," he said.

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