<b>Paris, France/Noida, India – 11th February, 2013. </b>HCL
Technologies Ltd. (HCL), a leading global IT services provider, today announced
that Saint Gobain, worldwide leader in construction markets has expanded its IT
infrastructure engagement to include transformational data center services in
Europe.

This engagement expands HCL’s current relationship
with Saint Gobain. The initial phase provided a roadmap to cover the migration
servers and other data centre components that are spread across multiple locations.
HCL is transforming Saint-Gobain’s computing landscape from its current state
to a world-class environment using proprietary cutting-edge technologies and
frameworks. The engagement leverages HCL’s award winning MTaaSTM platform
for Enterprise Service Management and Monitoring to deliver proven operational
benefits and business value.

HCL will support several european
entities of Saint-Gobain during the course of this engagement. The company has
also successfully commissioned new data centers in Paris, which are being used
for delivering shared data center services to these entities across Europe.

Speaking on the engagement, <b>Mr. Gery Bonte, Group CTO, Saint-Gobain</b>
said, ”We were in search of an IT partner that could assist us in a smooth
transition from the decentralized and disparate environment to a centralized
and standardized IT environment. In HCL, we found an IT Infrastructure vendor
that could ensure a successful transition into a standardized environment by
leveraging HCL’s globally benchmarked set of tools, processes and operations.
In addition to this, HCL continues to ensure a shift from the best effort
service level to a well-defined service level based on the ITIL process. We
look forward to a long and rewarding partnership with HCL Technologies.”

”We are pleased to have extended our
partnership with Saint Gobain, our customer since 2005 and one of Europe’s most
respected industrial brands. It reinforces HCL’s increasing attractiveness as a
transformational IT Infrastructure partner of choice for large multinationals
across Europe and the world at large,” said<b>
Mr. Ashish Gupta, Senior Vice President & Head – EMEA, HCL Technologies ISD</b>.
”This contract highlights customers’ increasing confidence in HCL’s
capabilities to manage large and complex IT Infrastructure environments through
its robust delivery benchmarks and deep domain knowledge.”

HCL commenced its journey in Europe almost a
decade back providing integrated suite of services including IT Services,
Remote Infrastructure, Engineering and R&D and BPO services. Its ‘think
global, act local&nbsp; ‘ philosophy makes it a commercially innovative company
with local autonomy to structure deals. Through the years, HCL has executed
several transformational engagements in Europe placing it at the top of the
European service providers’ list.&nbsp;

<b>For details, contact</b>

Ajay Davessar&nbsp;

HCL
Technologies

Email:
ajay.davessar@hcl.com

Phone:
+91 9650122336

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