NEW YORK and SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 15, 2022
/PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world's largest
IT infrastructure services provider, and Cloudera today
announced a global partnership to help customers enable and drive
their mission-critical hybrid cloud, multicloud and edge computing
data initiatives.
Kyndryl and Cloudera plan to establish a joint innovation center
to develop integrated industry solutions and delivery capabilities
designed to help customers accelerate their move and migration to
the cloud platform and environment of their choice,
including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and
Microsoft Azure.
The companies will immediately focus on:
- Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Migrations and
Upgrades: The companies will partner to streamline
customer migration and upgrades by leveraging technology and
expertise to help customers overcome barriers and shorten time to
market.
- Managed Services: Kyndryl will leverage their deep data
center modernization and platform management skills to provide
state of the art Managed Service capabilities to increase
reliability and customer satisfaction.
Kyndryl will apply its three decades of experience of advising,
implementing and managing mission critical IT platforms with
Cloudera's hybrid data cloud platform to help companies modernize
their data ecosystems and achieve their digital transformation
goals. To expand and solidify their technical proficiency with
Cloudera products, Kyndryl professionals plan to participate in the
CDP certification program.
The companies also plan to focus on delivering large scale
transformation capabilities to customers across multiple industries
and geographies. The firms plan to leverage Kyndryl's data
framework, toolkits, and global team of data management and AI
experts alongside Cloudera's data, analytics and AI
capabilities.
"Customers in all industries around the globe are seeking new
ways to unlock insights from their business data in the cloud so
they can become digitally savvy organizations," said Nicolas
Sekkaki, Applications, Data & AI global practice leader for
Kyndryl. "We will work with Cloudera to unleash our respective
expertise and enable companies to realize data and AI
transformation in on-prem, public and hybrid cloud environments,
while maximizing the return on their investments in enterprise data
analytics."
"Together with Kyndryl, we are tackling one of the biggest
challenges customers face in their data journey today -
complexity," said Gary Green, Senior
Vice President of Strategic Partnerships for Cloudera. "It is
heavier 'lift' now than it has ever been for enterprises and their
partners to move to the cloud because of increased regulations,
technology considerations and the acceleration of a hybrid,
multi-cloud world. In aligning with Kyndryl, we are excited to
continue to provide end-to-end support to mutual customers as they
invest in the business value of the cloud."
For more information about Kyndryl and Cloudera's partnership,
please visit:
https://www.kyndryl.com/about-us/alliances/cloudera
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 Cloudera
At Cloudera, we believe that data can
make what is impossible today, possible tomorrow. We empower people
to transform complex data into clear and actionable insights.
Cloudera delivers an enterprise data cloud for any data, anywhere,
from the Edge to AI. Powered by the relentless innovation of the
open-source community, Cloudera advances digital transformation for
the world's largest enterprises. Learn more at Cloudera.com.
Cloudera and associated marks are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Cloudera, Inc. All other company and product names
may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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