Kyndryl and Microsoft broadened their existing partnership to bring together Microsoft’s adaptive cloud approach and Kyndryl Distributed Cloud services to help customers better develop, manage and secure hybrid cloud operations.
Microsoft says its AI-infused adaptive cloud approach, which leverages Microsoft Azure Arc, Azure Local and Azure Cloud, enables customers to link distributed hybrid, multicloud, edge, and IoT resources under a single, secure application and data platform. The model uses customer data and an AI engine to offer predictive analytics, automated workflows, and threat detection and response to manage the environment, according to Microsoft.
Kyndryl will deliver the adaptive cloud approach to its customers through its Distributed Cloud services, which also use AI to improve automation, optimize workloads, enhance application performance, and reduce operational complexity. Kyndryl Distributed Cloud services create a mesh of interconnected resources and data from the data center to the edge in a multicloud environment, according to Kyndryl. Use cases include data center and edge modernization to support digital twins, AI video, robotic process automation, predictive maintenance, IoT data streams, asset tracking, and anomaly detection.
The enhanced Distributed Cloud services offer customers centralized management and security; capabilities to “maintain control and expand operations as needed using Microsoft Azure’s flexible infrastructure, supporting growth and scalability”; and unified data management to “support seamless data integration across all deployment types with Azure Fabric, extract actionable AI insights, and deliver coordinated workflow orchestration and centralized device management,” Kyndryl stated.
Microsoft was the first large cloud vendor to partner with Kyndryl after it spun out of IBM in 2021, and the companies have consistently added to their collaborations. Most recently, the vendors extended their mainframe modernization support, security services, and cloud migration offerings.
Specifically, Kyndryl and Microsoft expanded their mainframe modernization service to include closer ties with Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform, including the ability let mainframe customers create new cloud-native applications using the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure and to re-platform other applications in parallel. In addition, Kyndryl extended Microsoft Azure DevSecOps pipelines to the mainframe, incorporating cloud and mainframe applications in the agile development process.
Source:: Network World