Kyndryl, the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, and Pure Storage®, the IT pioneer that delivers storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, have announced a global alliance that combines Kyndryl's expertise and operational experience with Pure's best-in-class storage technology to deliver mission-critical capabilities to businesses.
Kyndryl will become a key delivery partner for Pure as part of the new partnership, building on already integrated solutions and growing its Pure skills and capabilities to help customers achieve breakthrough business outcomes.
Pure and Kyndryl will collaborate to deliver jointly optimised solutions to address the complex challenges that enterprises face in areas such as application and infrastructure modernisation, automation, multi-cloud management, containerisation, and more – delivering cyber resiliency elements natively at the storage layer to enable cloud-based applications with data portability in the cloud or on-premises.
Kyndryl is advancing a strategy that combines deep technical expertise, global industry knowledge and best-in-class technologies from partners to deliver comprehensive and differentiated offerings to customers. Partnering with Pure augments supports Kyndryl’s approach by providing advanced storage and data management solutions grounded in Pure’s ethos of simplicity, reliability, agility, and innovation, which sets the company apart from other infrastructure providers.
“Our alliance with Pure Storage can help customers identify and take advantage of new ways to manage, secure, and analyse their mission-critical multi-cloud business data,” said Stephen Leonard, Global Alliances & Partnerships Leader, Kyndryl. “We look forward to working with Pure to deliver advanced capabilities that customers can use to modernise and transform their businesses.”
“We’ve fostered a true collaboration with Kyndryl that will address our shared customers' business challenges and drive the transformation and modernisation they are undertaking,” said Wendy Stusrud, VP, Global Partner Sales, Pure Storage. “Our strategic relationship will provide market leading solutions that enable customers to maximise their data assets across their organisations with confidence.”
