Wipro, EMC form strategic alliance

India's third largest IT solutions providing company, Wipro and EMC Corporation, world's leading developer of information infrastructure technology and solutions, today announced a global strategic alliance to address customers' information infrastructure requirements.

The information infrastructure market is currently pegged at $60 billion worldwide.

The alliance unites Wipro's applied innovation framework for developing new solutions and services around EMC's industry-leading information infrastructure technologies to enable more organizations, specifically in targeted growth markets, to optimize their infrastructures, secure and protect their information, and leverage their information to unlock its full potential.

Wipro and EMC intend to explore collaboration of industry and application specific solutions in key business areas that solve customer needs related to storage management, information management, content management, and information security.

To further enable this alliance, EMC intends to help certify more than 1,000 Wipro practice resources on EMC technologies to support pre-sales, delivery, and solution development.

Commenting on the alliance, Suresh Vaswani, president, Wipro Technologies said, "The alliance with EMC is part of Wipro's Applied Innovation initiative that includes new ideas that will deliver significantly higher value and business results to our global customers. This alliance is significant for us as it showcases our agility and flexibility to transform our business to meet changing customer requirements."

Sanjay Mirchandani, senior vice president, EMC, said, "Wipro is one of the world's fastest- growing services companies, and together Wipro and EMC can harness each other's strengths to meet this expanding demand for world-class information infrastructure offerings."