Software & Technology giant Wipro has entered into a partnership with Sun Microsystems, to widen its reach within the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries such as UAE and Saudi Arabia.

Under the arrangement, Wipro would resell and integrate the entire suite of Sun systems, storage, software, and services to serve Sun's customers in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar.

The Sun-Wipro business relationship began almost two decades
ago in 1989, with Wipro in India selling 3/50 and 3/60 workstations.

At present, Wipro is the world's largest independent R&D services provider and the world's largest offshore third-party testing services provider.

Apart from this, the company is one of the world's top offshore Indian BPO service providers and the largest offshore technology infrastructure management services provider.

The firm has over 50 development centers, 743 clients and 92,000 employees in 53 countries across the world.