5,000+ Kyndryl mainframe professionals are
training to speed deployment of AI-enabled workloads in hybrid
cloud environments
NEW
YORK, May 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl
(NYSE: KD), the world's largest IT infrastructure services
provider, today unveiled new artificial intelligence (AI) and
generative AI-based consulting and managed delivery services to
help organizations exploit their mainframe application and data
assets as part of their hybrid cloud transformation.
Kyndryl is committed to furthering the adoption of AI and
generative AI by educating more than 5,000 of its mainframe
professionals with new AI skills on top of their tens of thousands
of certifications in mainframe and cloud technologies. With this
initiative, Kyndryl will be poised to help mainframe customers
accelerate development and deployment of AI and generative
AI-enabled solutions in their hybrid cloud environments.
At 60 years of age, the mainframe remains a strategic IT
foundation for thousands of organizations worldwide. According to
research from Kyndryl, 90% of organizations state that the
mainframe remains essential to their business operations, and 95%
are modernizing and running it as part of a hybrid cloud
environment. To speed mainframe transformation projects, customers
are seeking to embrace AI and generative AI technology, but often
lack the skills and expertise needed to effectively deploy this in
their infrastructure and applications.
To help mainframe customers explore, kick-start or scale the
deployment of responsible AI, Kyndryl is tapping into AI and
generative AI tooling as well as the operational insights from its
AI-infused Kyndryl Bridge open integration platform. In addition,
the expanded AI capabilities for mainframe are supported by Kyndryl
Consult and complement the company's AI and data advisory and
implementation services which include assessments, innovation
workshops and proofs of concept. Kyndryl is also continuing its
collaboration with the hyperscalers and other partners to assist
customers in defining and achieving their AI goals to drive
critical business outcomes.
"Kyndryl is taking a bold next step to enable and accelerate our
customers' mainframe modernization journey by unlocking their
applications and data through deployment of AI and generative AI,"
said Petra Goude, Global Practice
Leader for Core Enterprise & zCloud at Kyndryl. "Our innovative
approach will help customers reduce IT transformation efforts and
costs, enhance agility and resiliency, mitigate skills challenges,
and drive better outcomes by optimizing their mainframe estates to
thrive in hybrid environments."
"The success of AI depends heavily on an organization's ability
to fully leverage all enterprise information assets regardless of
data format or application platform. Mission-critical
information created and managed by mainframes needs to be fully
integrated into enterprise generative AI and other data-intensive
use cases in order to fully enable data-driven decision making and
digital innovation," explains Mary Johnston
Turner, IDC Research Vice President for the Future of
Digital Infrastructure. "Kyndryl's commitment to mainframe
modernization for generative AI and other AI use cases targets this
set of important enterprise infrastructure requirements."
Kyndryl's new comprehensive services can help mainframe
customers optimize the right workload on the right platform using
AI and generative AI for the following scenarios and potential use
cases:
Moving workloads off the mainframe to the cloud:
- Deliver generative AI-produced and Kyndryl-enhanced application
documentation.
- Enable fast and efficient automated conversion of mainframe
application code to modern languages (e.g. COBOL to Java).
- Provide AI-based insights into business logic and data
relationships to help customers quickly address new business
opportunities.
Integrating mainframe applications and data with cloud or
distributed environments:
- Assist in enabling secure access to mainframe data used in
cloud-based AI solutions and secure interoperability between
mainframe and cloud solutions.
- Drive improved asset financial usage through AI-infused,
dynamic workload placement.
Modernizing workloads on the mainframe:
- Advise on application code modernization to avoid potential
production issues.
- Integrate real-time AI solutions into mainframe applications
for better business insights.
- Enable quantum-safe data encryption to enhance customers'
compliance with their security and regulatory
requirements.
Optimizing application developer agility:
- Implement DevSecOps tools and processes, including AI-based
recommendations, for real-time insights into programming best
practices and faster time-to-market for customers.
- Enable data scientists to build new AI models and integrate
these LLMOps tools with existing DevSecOps tools and
processes.
For more information about Kyndryl's AI and generative AI
services for mainframe modernization, visit Mainframe Modernization
| Kyndryl.
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, please
visit www.kyndryl.com.
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