CIMCORP to Upgrade CEMIG's IT Infrastructure and Complex Datacenter Related Solutions

Midas Medici Group Holdings, Inc. (“Midas”), an innovative green IT company in the fields of virtualization, cloud computing and data management, as well as Smart Grid solutions, recently announced in a press release that CEMIG, one of the largest electric energy utilities in Brazil, has awarded Midas’ CIMCORP brand a $3 million contract. CIMCORP specializes in data center services with an emphasis on complex solutions that enable Brazilian companies to virtualize and implement cloud-based systems.

According to the terms of the contract, CIMCORP will strategically upgrade to CEMIG's virtualization and cloud-based capabilities throughout its operations in Brazil. CIMCORP and CISCO will be working to upgrade CEMIG's IT infrastructure and complex datacenter related solutions. The entire IT infrastructure and data center upgrade will be primarily focused on CEMIG's headquarters in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

“We are pleased to announce that our CIMCORP brand was chosen by CEMIG for this strategic project,” stated Nana Baffour, CEO and co-founder of Midas Medici, in a statement. “We have enjoyed a long-standing relationship with CEMIG and were recently selected as the only IT company to receive CEMIG's Supplier Award earlier this year. As one of the largest utilities in the country, CEMIG's decision to select us for this $3 million project is a validator of the quality of our IT integration expertise and highly responsive implementation and project management capabilities in Brazil.”

“This is a significant upgrade for our organization so we wanted to be certain to choose the right company for the job. We were pleased to see CIMCORP come away from the competitive bidding process as the winner, since we can always rely on CIMCORP to meet our precise contract needs, both in terms of due dates and quality, and their project management reputation in Brazil is second to none,” said Wander Jose Eustaquio de Oliveira Junior, manager of Materials and Services Quality at CEMIG.

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Edited by Jennifer Russell