HP, Coca-Cola ink outsourcing deal

Datacenter Dynamics.

HP will also manage Coca-Cola's international telecommunications operators in the region and network management services for the LAN/WAN environment of the company.

According to Bloomberg BusinessWeek, the five-year agreement will support Coca-Cola's Latin American business.

HP Mexico will handle the consolidation of 348 locations to a single data centre in Mexico as well as migrating some applications and server monitoring and management to locations in Brazil and Argentina.

Zacks notes that HP will continue to manage its Latin American operations covering Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Venezuela.

This apart, the full operation will include additional technologies from SAP AG and Microsoft.