Simon & Schuster inks pact with Cognizant

Cognizant has announced a multi-year IT contract with New York-based publishing giant Simon & Schuster, Inc (S&S).

Under the agreement, Cognizant will provide Simon & Schuster with end-to-end information technology infrastructure management services, including, helpdesk, network management, server management, application infrastructure support, and desktop support.

Cognizant officials, when contacted, declined to furnish details on the contract size and duration.

The agreement for end-to-end infrastructure management and data centre operations services for S&S will include management of 200 servers, 1,400 desktops, as well as management of mission-critical applications across the company's locations.

Francisco D'Souza, Cognizant president and CEO, said the company had successfully migrated S&S's hardware and software onto a Microsoft platform.

"We will continue to meet Simon & Schuster's future needs by delivering superior network and applications performance, while effectively transferring our know-how to the company's personnel," he said.

Cognizant will provide services delivery to all of S&S's offices out of Bangalore, New York, and two locations in New Jersey. The company's IT infrastructure management division is headquartered in Bangalore.