End-to-end services help drive innovation and
gain more value from mainframe applications and data
NEW
YORK, Nov. 14, 2024 /PRNewswire/
-- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world's largest IT
infrastructure services provider, today launched a portfolio
of new end-to-end services that offer enterprises a comprehensive
path to modernizing their mainframe applications with the Microsoft
Cloud. These new services will accelerate mainframe application
migration while unlocking AI insights and generative AI
capabilities through Microsoft technologies like Azure OpenAI,
Microsoft Copilot and Azure DevOps.
Leveraging Kyndryl's deep expertise in both mainframe and
Microsoft Cloud, these services are designed to modernize
applications and data for Microsoft Azure. Kyndryl understands the
rigorous demands of mission-critical mainframe applications and the
complex security and regulatory requirements that often surround
them. Kyndryl Consult will engage with customers to create a
tailored plan aimed at meeting their requirements and maximizing
their business outcomes.
"Kyndryl's strategic alliance with Microsoft, decades of
experience advising, implementing and managing mission-critical
mainframe applications, coupled with thousands of skilled
experts in this domain, makes us the ideal partner to guide
customers on their mainframe modernization and AI initiatives with
Microsoft Azure," said Petra Goude,
Global Practice Leader for Core Enterprise & zCloud at Kyndryl.
"We can help organizations elevate their hybrid IT operating models
and enrich core business applications and data with
Azure, while advancing security, accelerating generative
AI deployment, and expanding the developer ecosystem using the
latest Microsoft Copilot technologies."
"With Microsoft's generative AI capabilities, and Kyndryl's
mainframe modernization services, we can help customers leverage
the Microsoft Cloud to drive innovation and realize new value
from their data and mainframe applications," said Shelly Blackburn, Corporate Vice President,
Microsoft. "Our expanded collaboration will enable data-driven
decision-making across the enterprise, so customers can accelerate
business transformation."
Led by the expertise and guidance of Kyndryl Consult, the
comprehensive new service portfolio offers customers five
paths to mainframe modernization with Microsoft Azure, tailored to
their specific needs and strategy and allowing a focus on the
'right workload on the right platform' approach that is most
essential to achieving their critical business outcomes:
- Systems integration – Kyndryl Consult provides
integration services that enable customers to create new
cloud-native applications using the Microsoft Cloud Adoption
Framework for Azure and to re-platform other applications in
parallel. Kyndryl extends Microsoft Azure DevSecOps pipelines to
the mainframe, incorporating both cloud and mainframe applications
in the agile development process. This allows for automated testing
and code scanning for both source and target, driving consistency
across the mainframe and Azure platforms.
- Data governance - By synchronizing mainframe data using
Azure SQL Managed Instance and mainframe-based replication
software, customers can immediately implement and enforce data
governance practices with Azure Purview across cloud and mainframe
estates. This capability works to maintain access to sensitive data
throughout the transformation journey.
- Application modernization – Kyndryl's approach to
application development enables customers to innovate rapidly by
incorporating Azure cloud-native architectures, microservices,
DevOps support and built-in monitoring to modernize the mainframe
application portfolio.
- AI deployment – Kyndryl has extensive AI expertise to
help customers unlock value from mainframe data and drive
innovation with Microsoft Fabric. By incorporating cloud-based
contextualized data with a real-time copy of mainframe data,
customers can take advantage of cloud-based analytics, Microsoft
Copilot and Power BI to provide insights, visualizations and
graphical dashboards without impacting mainframe utilization.
- Security – Kyndryl's security capabilities integrate
Microsoft Sentinel and authentication and policy frameworks with
the mainframe, enabling a single auditable control plane across the
hybrid estate. Establishing a day-one zero-trust security posture
helps customers comply with their regulatory compliance
requirements.
According to Kyndryl's 2024 Mainframe Modernization
Survey, 86% of respondents are moving fast to adopt AI to
accelerate mainframe modernization. Additionally, almost half aim
to use generative AI to unlock and transform critical mainframe
data into actionable insights. Furthermore, 96% of respondents are
migrating some workloads, on average 36%, to the cloud. With the
new mainframe modernization services for Microsoft Azure, Kyndryl
is poised to support customers on their digital transformation and
AI adoption to future-proof their IT environment.
For more information about Kyndryl and Microsoft's mainframe
modernization initiative, please visit:
https://www.kyndryl.com/us/en/about-us/alliances/microsoft.
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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