Huawei partners with Infosys for cloud based projects

Infosys recently announced its partnership with Huawei Technologies to offer enterprise customers cloud computing services.

It also said it had expanded existing cloud computing partnerships with Microsoft and a Hitachi unit.

Vishal Sikka, CEO, Infosys has been planning to boost investment in cloud computing, smartphone apps and other new technologies to win more high-margin outsourcing contracts. These are expected to help Infosys back to the forefront of India's $100 bn IT outsourcing industry.

Infosys and Huawei will jointly develop IT solutions that combine Huawei's cloud infrastructure and Infosys' service expertise, the companies said in a statement on Thursday.

Under an expanded partnership with Microsoft, Infosys will help companies use and migrate to Microsoft's cloud platform in a more secure manner, Infosys said in a separate statement.

Infosys also said under an expanded partnership with Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), Infosys and HDS will help clients transition their IT infrastructure to new cloud-based environments.