CSC and Educational Testing Service Announce Five-and-a-Half Year, $200+ Million Contract Renewal and Expansion For IT Services
ETS to Leverage CSC’s Industry-Leading Cloud Services Including
CloudCompute Infrastructure as a Service
FALLS CHURCH, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CSC (NYSE: CSC) announced today that it has signed a five-and-a-half
year information technology (IT) operations outsourcing contract renewal
and expansion with Educational Testing Service (ETS), the leader in
advancing quality and equity in education for people worldwide. The
agreement was signed in the second quarter of CSC fiscal year 2012, and
has an estimated value of more than $200 million assuming all options
are exercised.
“We are committed to building on the great partnership we have formed
with ETS and to further supporting their IT needs.”
As part of the agreement, CSC will continue to bring new and innovative
approaches to the way ETS leverages IT. CSC will provide its
industry-leading cloud services to ETS including CloudCompute, the new
infrastructure as a service (IaaS) architecture deployed in the CSC
Trusted Cloud Datacenters. CloudCompute, a VMware vCloud Datacenter
Service, delivers compute, storage and network resources “as a service”
to support any application and is especially suited for hosting
mission-critical and business-critical workloads.
“CSC has provided IT solutions for ETS since 2001. We are pleased to
continue our long time relationship with CSC and are confident their IT
solutions will have a positive effect on ETS business,” said Daniel
Wakeman, Vice President and Chief Information Officer at ETS.
Additional services that CSC will provide include service desk, end-user
support, network support, distributed computing, security operations,
disaster recovery and data center management services. Work will be
performed utilizing CSC’s worldwide network of delivery centers.
“We are excited at the opportunity
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