Shell and IBM sign long-year agreement on infrastructureThe Hague 06 July 2001 The Royal Dutch/ShellGroup of companies (Shell) and IBM have signed a five-year strategic alliance agreement. This alliance supports Shell's creation of three world wide hubs to standardize and consolidate its IT Applications Infrastructure. Company officials expect the value of this agreement to exceed USD $100 million. Shell's MegaCentre will initially provide infrastructure for SAP and eBusiness solutions. A single-source arrangement has been agreed with IBM as the prime supplier of the hardware for MegaCentre.
The five-year global agreement includes IBM provisioning of IBM eServer systems, Enterprise Storage Server, tape drives and libraries, Storage Area Network switches, storage management software from Tivoli, and related technology. Shell has pre-negotiated options for IBM Financing, Technical Support Services and Maintenance.
Key objectives of this joint undertaking include substantial reduction in Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and the establishment of a harmonized infrastructure platform to accelerate deployment of eBusiness applications.
The Shell-IBM Strategic Alliance for MegaCentre follows an announcement earlier this year that IBM and Shell were collaborating on deployment of the world's most powerful Linux supercomputer for seismic research.
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