Extra tags: Digital Innovation
Kyndryl, the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, announced a strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) to combine their respective expertise, skills, and global resources to help customers transform their businesses through Industry-focused enterprise cloud services and solutions. Kyndryl wants to build out its own internal infrastructure on the cloud, employing AWS as a preferred cloud provider, in addition to cooperating with AWS to provide solutions for Kyndryl's top enterprise customers throughout the world. AWS will become a Kyndryl Premier Global Alliance Partner as part of this announcement.
Kyndryl and AWS will work together to establish a worldwide AWS practise with the skills, resources, and knowledge needed to provide best-in-class customer service. Kyndryl will develop an AWS Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) as part of the global cooperation to provide cutting-edge client solutions and services for mission-critical infrastructure, next-generation technologies, and modernising applications and processes across industries. The worldwide AWS CCOE will enable Kyndryl services experts worldwide to optimise their clients' migration journeys with AWS, leveraging the world's leading cloud's availability, reliability, and security.
Kyndryl and AWS announced they are developing an accelerator for VMware Cloud on AWS leveraging their deep partnerships with VMware to offer differentiated value to customers. AWS, VMware, and Kyndryl will supply deep expertise and tailored solutions through the accelerator to help the world's leading organisations combine their existing VMware investments with AWS services. Kyndryl's high concentration of customers running VMware on-premises provides an expedited path to VMware Cloud on AWS and helps organisations 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 developing AWS competencies and has built an experienced team of AWS-certified services professionals through the Kyndryl Academy for AWS. Kyndryl and AWS will further invest in the education of more than 10,000 Kyndryl professionals by the end of 2022, upskilling them in a wide range of AWS skills to support its customers' rapid adoption of cloud services and solutions around the globe.
"Our ability to freely explore and unleash the combined benefits of AWS cloud services with Kyndryl's deep industry-specific managed services and expertise will provide an unprecedented level of knowledge and innovation," said Martin Schroeter, Chairman and CEO of Kyndryl. "Together, we will invest in enhancing Kyndryl's expertise in AWS to help companies modernise, innovate, and compete."
"Organisations everywhere are choosing AWS to transform their businesses and tackle some of the world's most difficult challenges – from putting automated vehicles on our streets, to improving healthcare outcomes, to addressing climate change. By combining forces with Kyndryl, we are helping customers of all sizes to modernise faster than ever before, grow their businesses, and transform what's possible," said Adam Selipsky, Chief Executive Officer at AWS. "Together, we are committed to educating, empowering, and enabling thousands of AWS certified practitioners and developing joint solutions that will accelerate customers' 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, together, will accelerate customers' application modernisation and cloud initiatives," said Raghu Raghuram, Chief Executive Officer at VMware. "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 retaining enterprise control."
