CSC/Microsoft Lands UK Cloud Deal

CSC has won a contract to provide IT support for 30,000 employees of the United Kingdom's postal service that will be using Microsoft's cloud-based offerings for e-mail, collaboration, and chat. It's a big win for Microsoft Online, and also shows how outsourcing companies are adapting their businesses to cloud computing.

CSC is calling the deal an "expansion" of its current contract with the U.K.'s Royal Mail Group, signed in 2003, for desktop and server IT support. Under the new terms, CSC will set up employees with Microsoft's Business Productivity Online Suite, introduced this year, which includes Exchange, SharePoint, Office Communications, and Office Live Meeting, hosted in Microsoft data centers and purchased on monthly subscriptions. CSC will also provide help desk support to employees for those applications.

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