Bangalore: Wipro Limited, India's third largest software exporter, has bagged a $ 20 million, five-year remote management contract from a UK-based utilities company, its chairman, Azim Premji, said on July 19.

Premji told reporters here that the contract was secured in the first quarter ended June 30.

Vivek Paul, vice-chairman of Wipro and president of Wipro Technologies, said under the contract, Wipro would remote manage 350 heterogenous servers, 3,200 network elements and 44 databases spread across 118 locations in the UK and Ireland. Paul declined to name the company, citing contractual obligations.

Meanwhile, Bangalore-based Wipro has inducted Steve Zucker, who has over two decades of sales management and operations experience, as chief executive (infrastructure).

"Steve will lead the expertise building in Wipro of bidding for and executing large, multi-year complex IT infrastructure outsourcing contracts," Premji said.

In the consulting space, he said, the company has won its first "PCMM" consulting assignment for a US corporate. "In India, we have started work for a client on Six Sigma Consulting," Premji added.

PTI