Atos Origin will host and manage the Hong Kong government's Central Computing Centre. The IT firm's wholly owned subsidiary, Sema Group, has officially been awarded the outsourcing contract.

HK's Central Computing Centre consists of ten IT infrastructure systems from seven government departments. Under the agreement, Atos Origin will provide the centre with daily managed operations, network infrastructure, printing services, production and technical support, disaster recovery services, and security and storage management.

These systems will be hosted in Sema Group Ltd's data centre facilities located in Chai Wan and Tsuen Wan respectively. These data centres are Atos Origin's largest data centres in Asia Pacific.

Philip Chua, Managing Director, Atos Origin Hong Kong said, "We are honored to be awarded this contract to deliver state-of-the-art data centre outsourcing services for the Hong Kong government. Our mission-critical and high-value outsourcing services align perfectly with the OGCIO's objectives of enlarging and accelerating its IT services for the various public sector departments."

Howard Dickson, Government Chief Information Officer said, "The outsourcing initiative that we see today is certainly only the beginning of a major step of maximizing private sector provisioning of services while keeping a strategic IT nucleus in Government."

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