CSC and Virtual Clarity Enter Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate Digital Transformation of Enterprise
Clients to IT-as-a-Service
CSC invests in and partners with Virtual Clarity to provide next-generation IT business strategy to lead
enterprise IT transformation
CSC (NYSE: CSC), a global leader in next-generation IT services and innovative cloud solutions, and Virtual
Clarity, a leading provider of IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) transformation strategy and leadership, today announced an agreement to
jointly help enterprises accelerate their transformation to leading cloud environments, including Amazon Web Services, IBM Cloud,
and Microsoft Azure.
Under the terms of the agreement, CSC will make an undisclosed investment in Virtual Clarity to accelerate the company’s leading
transformation consulting services targeting the Financial Services, Insurance, Telecom, and Manufacturing industries. Virtual
Clarity will become a Strategic Affiliate of CSC and will collaborate on joint go-to-market pursuits with CSC.
Virtual Clarity has significant knowledge and experience in helping global clients solve large, complex business problems and
building lasting value for customers and partners. Its ClearTransformation service enables companies to accelerate business
innovation, overcoming the inertia of legacy IT by transforming the traditional IT operating model to nimble IT-as-a-Service.
The Virtual Clarity relationship will enhance CSC’s ability to lead client transitions to the digital enterprise and reinforces
CSC’s leadership in cloud transformation. Clients will benefit by combining the breadth and depth of CSC’s vendor-agnostic,
next-generation technology solutions with Virtual Clarity’s business-outcomes consultative approach.
As more organizations are looking to operate their business in the cloud, they increasingly face challenges associated with
managing complexity, cost and risk. The CSC and Virtual Clarity integrated approach will de-risk large-scale IT transformation
programs while empowering clients to focus on growing their businesses with improved efficiencies at a scale not possible in
traditional IT environments.
“We are excited to be partnering with CSC. This partnership will ensure that organizations can transform their business faster
and safer than before, and at scale,” said Steve Peskin, chief executive officer, Virtual Clarity. “CSC delivers fantastic service
solutions to enable what organizations need to finally make enterprise infrastructure frictionless and invisible to the business
and unlock competitive agility.”
“Virtual Clarity’s advisory services, combined with CSC’s ability to deliver at scale, provides a powerful solution that
supports the journey toward IT transformation,” said Steve Hilton, executive vice president and general manager, Global
Infrastructure Services, CSC. “Our clients will benefit by having a combined advisory service aligned to meet their technology
needs and accelerate their IT transformations.”
To learn more about enterprise digital transformation, read “What Makes Digital Leaders: A Full C-Suite Perspective,” the findings from the 2016-2017 Global Digital
Enterprise Survey of 500 global business and IT executives, sponsored by CSC and conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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About CSC
CSC (NYSE: CSC) leads clients on their digital transformation journeys. The company provides innovative next-generation
technology services and solutions that leverage deep industry expertise, global scale, technology independence and an extensive
partner community. CSC serves leading commercial and international public sector organizations throughout the world. CSC is a
Fortune 500 company and ranked among the best corporate citizens. For more information, visit the company's website at www.csc.com.
About Virtual Clarity
Virtual Clarity makes IT-as-a-Service happen in the largest, most critical IT environments by aligning IT capabilities with the
needs of business, at the speed of the business. Virtual Clarity helps companies run IT like a business, delivering the right
services at the right price in line with consumption. The company combines zero infrastructure, agility, cost efficiency, and
innovation to bring a new kind of IT that meets modern business challenges and transforms both the infrastructure and culture that
drive IT. Visit us at www.virtualclarity.com for more information.
CSC
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Corporate Media Relations
radamonis@csc.com
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Global M&A and Investor Relations
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Virtual Clarity
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Head of Global Marketing
sanam.lou@virtualclarity.com
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