Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is the
primary enterprise IT automation solution for Kyndryl
infrastructure services, driving enhanced business performance for
organizations
Kyndryl recognized as a leading
provider of automation services for Red Hat Ansible Automation
Platform
BOSTON, May 10, 2022
/PRNewswire/ -- Red Hat Summit – Red Hat, the world's
leading provider of open source solutions, and Kyndryl (NYSE: KD),
the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, today
announced a strategic partnership to help customers embrace open,
differentiated automation technologies and managed services to
modernize core business applications and IT infrastructure, while
enabling scalable enterprise operations and greater resilience with
advanced security capabilities. Together, Red Hat and Kyndryl will
offer integrated services and solutions based on Red Hat Ansible
Automation Platform to automate critical workloads from the
enterprise datacenter to the edge and across public clouds.
With this collaboration, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
becomes the primary enterprise automation solution across Kyndryl's
infrastructure services, with Kyndryl as a leading service provider
for Ansible Automation Platform. Kyndryl is currently one of the
largest global users of Ansible Automation Platform, running tens
of millions of automations and managing more than 500,000 customer
endpoints worldwide. Kyndryl plans to further scale its automation
architecture through joint engineering work with Red Hat to extend
its storage and network automation capabilities across its services
team.
In addition, Kyndryl and Red Hat will establish an Ansible
Innovation Center to co-create solutions and help customers realize
hybrid cloud transformation by automating IT operations and
services from the infrastructure level to the cloud and the edge.
This will include jointly developed playbooks, enablement and
support based on Ansible Automation Platform and Kyndryl
infrastructure services.
"By increasing the integration of Kyndryl's leading
infrastructure services with Red Hat's industry leading open hybrid
cloud technology, we are better able to deliver services and
technologies that work hand-in-hand to provide a more seamless
customer experience," Stephen
Leonard, Global Alliances & Partnerships Leader,
Kyndryl. "We look forward to working with Red Hat to help
customers accelerate their ability to achieve true business agility
through open multicloud solutions."
"Customers today are operating in increasingly diverse and
complex IT environments, spanning on-premises datacenters to public
and private clouds. Automated solutions and managed services are
crucial for customers to effectively scale and manage today's
hybrid multicloud landscape," said Stefanie
Chiras, senior vice president, Partner Ecosystem Success,
Red Hat. "Red Hat's collaboration with Kyndryl integrates
automation with managed services to support customers across
infrastructure, networking and cloud operations, alleviating the
burden of manual IT operations and making it easier to grow into
the future."
Kyndryl and Red Hat already jointly support almost 900 customers
globally and are working with companies like Bord Gais Energy, an
energy and services supplier in the Republic of Ireland, to help them reap the
benefits from the combination of advanced automation and managed
services with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. As a result,
Bord Gais has realized service quality improvements, cost
reductions and better adherence to audit and compliance
requirements, enabling them to better serve and meet the changing
needs of its customers that are transitioning to a lower carbon
future.
"There was no manual to navigate the challenges presented by the
global pandemic and it resulted in fast-changing business requests
and urgent demands that required responsiveness from day one,"
Andy Nason, head of Service and
Infrastructure, Bord Gais Energy. "We required minimal
disruption and reliable service levels, and the Kyndryl services
team and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform made it possible. The
dynamic automated tooling and environment created by Kyndryl and
Red Hat proactively resolved repetitive tasks and automated event
incident response and resolution while consistently enabling
operational improvements that ensured customer satisfaction."
To increase its support across the breadth of Red Hat's
portfolio across sales, delivery and sales engineering functions,
Kyndryl services practitioners have achieved over 5,000 Red Hat
Certifications and accreditations to date with a dedicated focus on
automation and containers.
Learn more information about how Kyndryl and Red Hat are
partnering to serve customers.
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 Red Hat
Red Hat is the world's
leading provider of enterprise open source software solutions,
using a community-powered approach to deliver reliable and
high-performing Linux, hybrid cloud, container, and
Kubernetes technologies. Red Hat helps customers integrate
new and existing IT applications, develop cloud-native
applications, standardize on our industry-leading operating system,
and automate, secure, and manage complex environments.
Award-winning support, training, and consulting services make
Red Hat a trusted adviser to the Fortune 500. As a
strategic partner to cloud providers, system integrators,
application vendors, customers, and open source communities, Red
Hat can help organizations prepare for the digital
future.
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