New Delhi : HCL Infosystems MEA, Dubai based subsidiary of HCL Infosystems, India’s premier ICT system integration, Hardware and Services Company, today announced its agreement with Mercator, the IT division of the Emirates Group, to manage IT infrastructure for flydubai. HCL Infosystems will provide IT infrastructure for hosting services through Mercator’s two data centers that will host flydubai’s applications through a private virtual cloud and will manage communication links to access externally hosted services. HCL Infosystems will provide, manage and support all end-user devices and services for flydubai. This multi-million dollar partnership will help flydubai optimize provisioning of critical services such as check-in, departure control, network planning, flight & crew operations, aircraft maintenance and other back office systems. The partnership will also ensure complete management of the infrastructure, day-to-day operations, vendors, connectivity and capacity. 

Ghaith Al Ghaith, CEO of flydubai said: “flydubai is always searching for ways to reduce our costs so that we can pass on our savings to our customers. We are delighted to be partnering with Mercator and HCL Infosystems to ensure our IT systems continue to meet our demands for highly efficient and cost effective solutions.” 

Mr. Rajeev Asija, Executive Vice President, System Integration & International Business, HCL Infosystems Ltd said, “We are excited with our recent entry into the Middle East market and hope to draw tremendous synergies with our solutions stack and the opportunity that exists in this part of the world. This early success clearly signifies our potential to deliver state-of-the-art solutions that can address needs of customers across geographies. We are confident that we will continue to grow relationships and forge partnerships and further expand with new products and innovative ICT solutions.” 

Mr. Fayyaz Alam, Vice President, Production Services for Mercator said “The partnership with HCL Infosystems will enable us to deliver a robust infrastructure platform that will enable flydubai to bring in new IT services and scale up the existing IT systems in line with their growth plans. We have looked at various options to deliver this and we found the partnership with HCL Infosystems to be the most cost effective and optimal way to meet flydubai’s requirements.” 

HCL Infosystems will bring rich experience to the IT infrastructure of flydubai. The solution is optimized to save cost without compromising the required performance standards. The hi-tech infrastructure, based on the state-of-art solutions, will make sure of optimum utilization of resources for all mission critical applications.