Prysmian Group and Kyndryl, the world’s largest IT infrastructure service provider, have announced a three-year contract extension that will support Prysmian in its long-term digital transformation process, including the migration of many of its mission critical operations to IBM. Cloud. With this agreement, the global leader in cables and systems for energy and telecommunications has chosen Kyndryl to migrate major workloads to IBM Cloud, with the long-term goal of expanding its architectural transformation through a multi-cloud strategy. By embracing a hybrid cloud model, Prysmian can in fact optimize the workloads still present in its traditional data centers making it easier and more efficient to conduct business and serve its customers. “Active listening to customer needs, an efficient and well-governed infrastructure and easy integration into a hybrid environment are the main drivers of our choice to adopt the Private Cloud provided by Kyndryl”, emphasizes Stefano Brandinali, Prysmian Group Chief Digital Officer and Chief Information Officer. This work is part of Prysmian’s broader modernization strategy and is critical to driving sustainable growth by providing superior solutions in an increasingly digital and competitive market. By embracing the hybrid cloud, Prysmian gains greater flexibility to move and manage critical workloads across IT environments, resulting in better business continuity and faster innovation in customer services. “Kyndryl allows Prysmian to benefit from increased flexibility necessary to serve the largest players in the telco and utilities sectors with a more adaptable and scalable IT infrastructure “, notes Ernesto De Ruggiero, Customer Unit Leader North of Kyndryl Italia. “We are thrilled to continue this fruitful collaboration as Prysmian progresses on its digital transformation journey by leveraging the benefits of a secure, scalable and resilient hybrid and multi-cloud strategy.” The announcement comes after an initial phase of collaboration with which, in 2021, Kyndryl had successfully migrated Prysmian’s Sap production environment from the Pero and Cascia data centers to those of IBM Cloud located in Milan (Cornaredo) and Frankfurt.