Kyndryl-Aws, strategic partnership to accelerate cloud adoption and customer innovation

Kyndryl, the world’s largest IT infrastructure service provider, today announced a strategic partnership with Amazon web services inc. (Aws) which brings together their respective global expertise, skills and resources to help clients transform their businesses through industry-focused cloud services and solutions. In addition to partnering with AWS to provide solutions to its customers around the world, Kyndryl plans to build their internal cloud infrastructures using AWS as their preferred supplier. As part of this announcement, AWS will become a Kyndryl premier Global alliance partner. Kyndryl and AWS will invest in building a global AWS practice with the skills, services and expertise to deliver best-in-class customer experience. Kyndryl will establish an AWS cloud center of excellence (Ccoe) to offer customers cutting-edge solutions and services capable of supporting mission critical infrastructures, next-generation technologies and modernizing applications and workflows across industries. The Ccoe will enable Kyndryl professionals around the world to streamline their client migration with AWS by leveraging the availability, reliability and security of the global cloud leader to deliver differentiated value to customers, Kyndryl and AWS are developing an accelerator for VMware Cloud on AWS leveraging their partnership with VMware. Through the accelerator, trained professionals from AWS, VMware and Kyndryl will provide deep experience and customized solutions to help the world’s largest enterprises combine existing VMware investments with AWS services. Given the high concentration of Kyndryl customers running VMware on premises, this provides an accelerated path to VMware cloud on AWS and helps organizations run their mission-critical workloads in the cloud. As a premier global alliance partner and MSP certified member of the AWS partner network (APN), Kyndryl has invested heavily in AWS skills development and has built an experienced team of AWS certified service professionals through the Kyndryl academy for AWS. Kyndryl and AWS will further invest in training more than 10,000 Kyndryl professionals by the end of 2022, updating them in a broad range of AWS skills to support the rapid adoption of its customers’ cloud services and solutions around the world. “Our ability to freely explore and unleash the combined benefits of AWS cloud services with Kyndryl’s managed services and industry-specific expertise,” said Martin Schroeter, Kyndryl chairman and CEO, “will provide an unprecedented level of knowledge and innovation. Together, we will invest in enhancing Kyndryl’s skills in AWS to help companies modernize, innovate and compete. “” Organizations around the world – explained Adam Selipsky, AWS chief executive officer – are choosing AWS to transform their companies. and address some of the world’s toughest challenges – from automated vehicles on our roads to improving health outcomes, to managing climate change. By joining forces with Kyndryl, we are helping customers of all sizes modernize faster than ever, grow their companies and transform what is possible Together, we are committed to educating, poten empower and enable thousands of AWS certified professionals and develop joint solutions that will accelerate customer journeys and help them innovate on the world’s leading cloud. ” “VMware, AWS and Kyndryl bring together a unique combination of customer focus, technology innovation and industry leadership that will accelerate customer application modernization and cloud initiatives,” said VMware chief executive officer Raghu Raghuram. “AWS is VMware’s preferred public cloud partner for vSphere workloads, and Kyndryl and VMware have a partnership built on more than two decades of collaboration. Together, our companies will help customers successfully navigate complex cloud journeys. that lead to greater digital innovation, while maintaining control of the company “.