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New Delhi, Nov. 11 NIIT Technologies Ltd on Wednesday announced its partnership with Hitachi Information Systems, a provider of IT infrastructure services in Japan, to offer services in cloud computing.

“Hitachi with its scalable infrastructure will own the cloud, while NIIT Technologies will harness its process capability in Remote Infrastructure Managed Services to operate the cloud,” said Mr Arvind Thakur, CEO, NIIT Technologies Ltd, said.

Cloud Computing is an emerging mega trend which is a standardised IT capability delivered via the Internet in a pay-per-use and self-service manner.

NIIT Technologies, pursuing its non-linear services strategy, is among the early entrants to this space.

With cloud computing gaining impetus, both companies expect to offer a portfolio of services around the cloud infrastructure to cater to the changing IT landscape.

To begin with, Hitachi Information Systems would leverage NIIT Technologies’ data centre in Bangkok and create the first hub outside Japan, networked to its existing infrastructure.

Drawing on the benefits of scale, shared infrastructure and standard applications, the two sides hope that the partnership will drive down costs while increasing the agility of deploying applications.

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