American Express signs infrastructure deal with storage giant

Credit card firm American Express has awarded IT firm EMC a contract to manage its business applications and data storage systems.

The multi-year deal will see EMC manage the financial services firm's distributed storage systems, which host thousands of servers and business critical applications.

'Our distributed environment has thousands of servers and supports a cross section of all our applications – from utility services such as email to our core business applications,' said Matthew Robinson, senior vice president, technology infrastructure at American Express.

'We sought flexibility for the way we manage our infrastructure and to tier our data storage according to performance, availability and price requirements.'

The contract builds on a longstanding partnership EMC has held with American Express to manage other parts of their storage infrastructure.