Business
VodafoneZiggo Selects Cognizant as Strategic Partner to Consolidate Services for IT Infrastructure, Virtualised Networking
Story Highlights
Cognizant to enable Dutch communications provider to improve the stability of its cloud infrastructure, total cost of ownership and time to deploy new functionalities and services.
This will enable VodafoneZiggo to improve the availability and reliability of its communications services through proactive monitoring of infrastructure operations, more accurate planning, and with faster deployments of new services to its more than five million mobile business and consumer customers in The Netherlands.
As part of the five-year operations and maintenance agreement, Cognizant will harmonise and simplify the current on-premise landscape through increased levels of automation designed to reduce the total cost of ownership and enable more efficient onboarding of VodafoneZiggo’s standard as well as containerised and virtualised NFV (Network Function Virtualisation) infrastructure.
“Due to the ongoing growth in the demand for data services and digital customer experiences, we continuously aim to optimise our services to serve customers in the best way. This goes hand in hand with a strong drive to establish the best efficiency and effectiveness in our operations and IT infrastructure,” said Diana Geels – de Koos, Lead for Cloud Infrastructure Tribe at VodafoneZiggo. “We have chosen Cognizant as a trusted partner with the experience and expertise to assist us with maintaining and improving the infrastructure underpinning our mobile network operations and deploy new functions and services at scale.”
“We are proud to have been chosen by VodafoneZiggo based on a combination of our deep industry and domain expertise in infrastructure managed services for large-scale, global companies across various industries, including telecoms and communications,” said Saket Gulati, Country Manager, Netherlands at Cognizant. “Due to our longstanding relationship and deep-rooted knowledge of VodafoneZiggo’s challenges, we are confident that we will be able to support the company in meeting its next digitisation targets and introduce a new level of stability to its IT infrastructure.”
