NEW YORK and PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov.
19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) and VMware
(NYSE: VM) today announced an expansion of the companies' strategic
partnership focused on app modernization and multicloud services.
This collaboration will enable customers to enhance their digital
innovation and business transformation with enterprise control.
The primary goal of the expanded partnership is to accelerate IT
and business reinvention for customers through the combination of
VMware solutions and Kyndryl's design, build and managed services.
The companies also aim to help customers speed their digital
transformations by rapidly building and deploying new, more secure
applications designed and built for a world of distributed
work.
As Kyndryl and VMware begin their respective journeys as
stand-alone companies, they share a productive relationship built
on more than 20 years of collaboration between VMware and IBM that
has consistently provided customers with a powerful combination of
strategic guidance and world-class technologies. Today's agreement
adds a focus on providing differentiated solutions for multicloud
infrastructure and management, digital workspace services, managed
applications, resiliency and security, and network and edge
computing.
"We're excited to embark on this journey with VMware and intend
to leverage a rich and productive history of joint solution
architectures, common designs, and deep relationships to provide
customers the solutions, services and support they need to achieve
their business transformation goals," said Stephen Leonard, global alliances and
partnerships leader, Kyndryl. "Through this important partnership,
Kyndryl and VMware will help companies design and deploy
mission-critical workloads that can modernize their applications
and operations to reap the benefits of cloud and multicloud
computing."
Kyndryl also plans to work with VMware to expand its existing
multicloud advisory, implementation, and management services to
support the VMware Tanzu platform and deploy vSphere workloads to
VMware multi-cloud infrastructure running in all public clouds.
"Multicloud is the digital business model for the next 20 years.
With the average organization running hundreds of apps across many
different clouds, customers need solutions and strategic partners
that enable their organizations to be as agile and resilient as
possible. This is the power of the VMware and Kyndryl partnership,"
said Susan Nash, senior vice
president, strategic corporate alliances, VMware. "Kyndryl is a
strategic partner that brings world-class solutions, skills,
expertise, and experience to the companies' mutual customers.
Together, we will empower customers to achieve smarter paths to
cloud, edge, and app modernization; provide autonomy for
developers; and enable a more secure, frictionless distributed
workforce."
To further the global reach and impact of their collaboration,
Kyndryl and VMware have established local, regional, and worldwide
alignment of their respective capabilities, expertise and resources
that will facilitate solutions planning, investment, and
execution.
Kyndryl and VMware also are jointly developing innovations
through a Joint Innovation Lab (JIL), which spearheads and drives
delivery model innovations to better reach and serve customers. The
JIL programs will further focus on developing solutions for app
modernization, containers, observability and security with VMware
Tanzu, as well as multicloud management solutions. Kyndryl and
VMware will closely align and optimize their collaboration in
support of VMware Cross-Cloud™ services to provide infrastructure
and applications services and support to customers, independent of
the underlying cloud provider environments.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is the world's
largest IT infrastructure services provider. The company designs,
builds, manages, and modernizes the complex, mission-critical
information systems that the world depends on every day. Kyndryl's
nearly 90,000 employees serve over 4,000 customers in more than 60
countries around the world, including 75 percent of the Fortune
100. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
About VMware
VMware is a leading provider of
multicloud services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with
enterprise control. As a trusted foundation to accelerate
innovation, VMware software gives businesses the flexibility and
choice they need to build the future. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed to
building a better future through the company's 2030 Agenda. For
more information, please visit
www.vmware.com/company.
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