IT services giant EDS Corp has teamed up with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp to offer IT and communications services. Tokyo-based NTT already owns $6bn-revenue technology services operation NTT Data Corp, and is closely allied with EDS rival IBM Global Services through a 10 year outsourcing and cooperation agreement signed in November 2001. However, the Japanese telco insisted that there is no overlap between the relationships.
EDS will team up with NTT’s long-distance unit NTT Communications, to collaborate in a number of areas including data center management, co-location and hosting. The companies said that the arrangement will help EDS to increase its profile in the Japanese market, and help NTT Communications to develop its IT services revenue streams as sales from its conventional telephone operations decline.
Source: Computerwire
