Alliance provides customers with cyber
resiliency services for improved business continuity, reduced costs
and increased agility
NEW
YORK, Feb. 21, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl
(NYSE: KD), the world's largest technology infrastructure
services provider, and Veeam® Software, the #1 leader by
market share in Data Replication and Protection
Software, today announced a global strategic alliance focused
on providing customers with resiliency services supported by
innovative technology, expert infrastructure management and
incident recovery services. Under the alliance, Kyndryl will now be
a Veeam Accredited Service Partner (VASP).
Kyndryl offers professional services and technical
implementation integrated with Veeam solutions, providing customers
with options for:
- Comprehensive Cyber Resilience: Using an integrated
approach to help customers strengthen their stakeholder confidence
with strategies to effectively recover from adverse conditions,
including cyber incidents, human error and hardware failures.
- Simplified Vendor Transitions: Provide customers with a
seamless transition to modern, security and compliance rich
cloud-based infrastructure with scalable and customizable options
for hybrid and multi-cloud backup and recovery.
- Modern Data Protection Solutions: Help customers
modernize and protect data across their enterprise with a
simplified, holistic approach on a single platform for effective
and reliable data protection with robust defense for modern SaaS
applications, data and systems.
- Enhanced Operational Efficiencies: Integrated automation
to drive operational efficiency, enabling customers with the
flexibility to adapt to changing business needs and industry
standards.
The alliance combines Kyndryl's expertise in managed security
services and infrastructure management capabilities with Veeam.
Kyndryl customers benefit from simplified and holistic data
protection and ransomware recovery, optimized costs, operational
efficiency, regulatory compliance features, and seamless data
mobility along with cloud-native and Kubernetes environments with
advanced security capabilities.
"Veeam is focused on ensuring organizations are prepared to
bounce forward when the worst happens. Whether it's a cyber-attack,
an outage or a natural disaster we give customers peace of mind
that their data is safe and can be rapidly recovered to keep their
business running," said John Jester,
CRO at Veeam. "We're excited to bring our technology together with
the scale and expertise of Kyndryl to bring the benefits of Veeam
technology to customers around the world. Together, we will keep
businesses running."
"Enterprise Strategy Group research shows that the market is in
dire need of advanced cyber resilience globally which is why the
expanded partnership between Veeam and Kyndryl comes at a critical
time in the market," said Christophe
Bertrand, Practice Director at Enterprise Strategy Group.
"The robust offerings that these long-time partners have devised,
based on their respective technologies and skill sets, are
laser-focused on core customer and market needs. We have been
watching this partnership successfully grow over the last few
years, and we expect that these robust offerings will be well
received at a time when enterprises are struggling with IT
complexity and cyber-crime."
"With the ever-growing threat from cyber risks, maintaining
cyber resiliency is a top priority for our customers," said
Debbie Nevin, Vice President of
Global Alliances at Kyndryl. "Our partnership with Veeam enables us
to support our customers' business continuity posture and ability
to recover from increasingly more sophisticated cyber
incidents."
For more information about the Kyndryl and Veeam 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, serving thousands of
enterprise customers in more than 60 countries. The company
designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex,
mission-critical information systems that the world depends on
every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
About Veeam
Veeam®, the #1 leader by market
share in Data Replication and Protection Software, is on a mission
to help every organization not just bounce back from a data outage
or loss but bounce forward. With Veeam, organizations achieve
radical resilience through data security, data recovery, and data
freedom for their hybrid cloud. The Veeam Data Platform
delivers a single solution for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and
Kubernetes environments that gives IT and security leaders peace of
mind that their apps and data are protected and always
available.
Headquartered in Columbus,
Ohio, with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects
over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 74% of the Global 2000,
who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Radical
Resilience starts with Veeam. Learn more at www.veeam.com or
follow Veeam on LinkedIn @veeam-software and X @veeam.
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