Kyndryl is extending its relationship with Nokia and expanding its menu of integration services by including more of Nokia’s data center networking products. Nokia’s portfolio includes data center switching for traditional enterprise and AI workloads, a data center gateway to link to cloud services, and optical data center interconnect products.
As part of the expanded partnership, Nokia’s Event-Driven Automation (EDA) technology will be integrated into Kyndryl’s AI-powered Bridge infrastructure integration platform. Nokia EDA is an infrastructure automation platform that offers network provisioning, configuration, optimization and troubleshooting features. Kyndryl Bridge services combine management, observability, and automation tools while using AI and machine learning to analyze the aggregated data and provide IT operations teams with the intelligence they need to keep systems running at peak performance, according to Kyndryl.
In addition, Nokia is developing quantum-safe technology for both IP and optical networks to ensure secure data transmission between data centers.
“We are really bullish on offering Nokia’s optical and quantum-safe technologies to our customers, particularly with the quantum-safe support because of the ongoing concerns about security,” said Paul Savill, global practice leader for network and edge computing with Kyndryl.
Data centers are under pressure to handle the demands of AI and other large application workloads. “We expect Nokia’s offering will help customers better handle the rapidly expanding compute requirements and offer switching fabrics to help get their data center infrastructure ready,” Savill said.
Kyndryl and Nokia currently partner to offer private 5G and LTE implementations as well as edge, network and device-management services. Kyndryl also offers a variety of other data center connectivity services from partners including Cisco, Red Hat, Microsoft, Dell, HPE and NetApp.
Nokia, too, has some large data center partners. For example, Nokia recently expanded a multi-year agreement to supply Microsoft Azure with data center routers and switches.
Source:: Network World