Kyndryl becomes a delivery partner for Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure
NEW
YORK, June 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl
(NYSE: KD), the world's largest IT infrastructure services
provider, today announced partnership with Oracle to help customers
accelerate their journey to the cloud by delivering managed cloud
solutions to enterprises around the world.
As part of the alliance, Kyndryl will become a key delivery
partner for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), expanding upon its
deep experience of working with and supporting customers using
Oracle products and services. With OCI, customers benefit from
best-in-class security capability, consistent high performance,
simple predictable pricing, and the tools and expertise needed to
bring enterprise workloads to cloud quickly and efficiently. In
addition, Kyndryl will leverage its participation in Oracle
PartnerNetwork (OPN) to extend the reach of its global cloud
services delivery capabilities across the network.
Kyndryl plans to offer a wide range of new services that
leverage Oracle technologies to help companies modernize and move
their applications and databases to the cloud. The solutions will
be supported by Kyndryl's advisory and implementation services that
are backed by thousands of experienced consultants globally who
help customers to unlock the potential of their cloud-enabled IT
transformation projects.
Kyndryl also intends to create customer solutions in the areas
of data modernization and governance, AI-driven innovations for
industries, cyber security and resiliency, and transformation of
mission-critical workloads to the cloud.
Additionally, Kyndryl will support Oracle Cloud@Customer and
Oracle Exadata offerings with IT infrastructure services to assist
customers with consolidating databases, lowering administration
costs, and improving uptime. As a licensed reseller of Oracle
software, Kyndryl provides its managed services expertise and
delivers a cohesive turnkey solution to customers.
"We are pleased to expand our collaboration with Oracle and will
work to help customers modernize applications and workloads to
accelerate and succeed on their journey to the cloud," said
Stephen Leonard, Global Alliances
& Partnerships Leader, Kyndryl. "The combination of
Kyndryl managed services and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides a
versatile and efficient foundation for companies to confidently
move, build and run their mission-critical IT operations in the
cloud."
"Enterprises are feeling intense pressure to modernize their
businesses rapidly while maintaining the continuity of
mission-critical operations," said Doug
Smith, Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships,
Oracle. "The combination of Kyndryl's expertise and Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure empowers these organizations to realize their
desired business outcomes from the latest technological
innovations. Through this partnership, we will expand our reach,
helping more customers around the world move critical workloads to
the cloud."
Kyndryl maintains vast experience managing Oracle solutions on
various public cloud platforms and on-premises for many large
enterprises and provides a holistic approach encompassing Oracle
solutions and non-Oracle workloads for a large Fortune 100 customer
base worldwide, such as mining company Canadian Malartic. Kyndryl
helped Canadian Malartic address and handle its Oracle managed
services needs, including safely and effectively modernizing its JD
Edwards applications environment for OCI.
To further Kyndryl's OCI expertise and skills in support of the
partnership, Kyndryl has established a global competency center and
devoted resources to expand and increase Oracle Cloud
certifications across Kyndryl's managed services team.
Kyndryl is positioned and registered with the Oracle Partner
Network in 53 countries, enabling true global service delivery. As
an Oracle partner, Kyndryl will focus on cross-industry services to
help customers modernize their applications and databases for the
cloud. Key areas of focus for the services include:
- Resiliency and Disaster Recovery options, such as zero latency
data loss recovery appliances and security services for Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure.
- Network and Edge computing capabilities that leverage Oracle
data center reach using Oracle's Roving Edge Infrastructure and
Kyndryl Managed Services.
- Data analytics services enabled by Kyndryl's IT specific
applied AI.
- Advanced database consolidation and migration of on-prem ERP
software to OCI.
For more information about the Kyndryl and Oracle partnership,
please visit: https://www.kyndryl.com/us/en/about-us/alliances
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
more than 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 Oracle PartnerNetwork
Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) is Oracle's partner program designed to
enable partners to accelerate the transition to cloud and drive
superior customer business outcomes. The OPN program allows
partners to engage with Oracle through track(s) aligned to how they
go to market: Cloud Build for partners that provide products or
services built on or integrated with Oracle Cloud; Cloud Sell for
partners that resell Oracle Cloud technology; Cloud Service for
partners that implement, deploy and manage Oracle Cloud Services;
and License & Hardware for partners that build, service or sell
Oracle software licenses or hardware products. Customers can
expedite their business objectives with OPN partners who have
achieved Expertise in a product family or cloud service. To
learn more visit: http://www.oracle.com/partnernetwork
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trademarks of Oracle Corporation.
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Kyndryl:
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