Kyndryl Bridge to drive more insights with the
AWS Mainframe Modernization service
NEW
YORK, Nov. 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl
(NYSE: KD), the world's largest IT infrastructure services
provider, today announced an expansion of its relationship with
Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a Premier Tier Services Partner to
help customers simplify and accelerate their mainframe
modernization initiatives. The company also unveiled new
capabilities designed to seamlessly integrate mainframe
applications and data with AWS technologies, and/or move mainframe
workloads to AWS.
Kyndryl now supports the AWS Mainframe Modernization service, a
unique platform that allows customers to migrate and modernize
their on-premises mainframe applications to a cloud native fully
managed runtime environment on AWS. Kyndryl will bring its
industry-leading mainframe expertise, skills and capabilities to
help customers manage their complex transformation initiatives more
efficiently and effectively.
As part of their expanded relationship with AWS, Kyndryl
launched a suite of new, tailored capabilities to automate the
provisioning and management of AWS mainframe modernization
environments and help customers optimize deployments:
- Kyndryl Cloud Native Services (KCNS) for mainframe
modernization will enable businesses to streamline lifecycle
management across their platforms and ensure consistent
provisioning, backup, compliance, and monitoring for mainframe
applications and infrastructure components. In addition, Kyndryl
will help automate operations, track AWS runtime performance, and
ensure system health. This can drive continuous modernization as
well as faster innovation and time to value for customers.
- Application replatforming/refactoring via integrated
DevSecOps provides application platform engineering and
developer agility on both the mainframe and AWS, enhancing the
developer experience and accelerating mainframe modernization.
- Application refactoring for migration from the
mainframe to AWS is supported by Kyndryl migration experts and
helps customers optimize mainframe applications as microservices in
a cloud-native environment.
- Near real-time data replication between the mainframe
and AWS using Kyndryl Consult to tune and manage
third-party products to help increase analytical insights from
integrated data sources that customers use to address business
challenges.
Additionally, the integration of AWS environments with the
AI-powered Kyndryl Bridge open integration platform provides
real-time visibility and actionable insights into operational data,
helping customers to better plan, leverage and gain insights from
their mainframe applications and data in the cloud to support
better business outcomes.
With the new Kyndryl capabilities and AWS Mainframe
Modernization service, an end-to-end mainframe transformation
factory can be created to integrate and migrate mainframe
applications and data to AWS, which can provide seamless hybrid
estate management for joint customers.
"AWS and Kyndryl's creativity and innovation to help implement
mainframe modernization have assisted the State of Arizona
Department of Economic Security in our modernization journey," said
Mark Darmer, CIO of State of Arizona
Department of Economic Security. "They continue to provide the type
of innovation that is needed in the industry."
"I applaud Kyndryl's continued work with AWS. It represents a
significant step forward in enabling organizations to optimize
their workloads across cloud and mainframe environments," said
Steven Dickens, VP and Practice
Leader at the Futurum Group. "With Kyndryl's expertise and AWS'
innovative technologies, businesses can achieve greater agility,
cost-efficiency and innovation, ultimately driving their digital
transformation efforts to new heights."
"We are pleased to expand our relationship with AWS to support
customers with modernizing their mainframe workloads, helping them
drive the most value by integrating mainframe applications and data
with AWS, or moving them to AWS," said Petra Goude, Kyndryl Global Practice Leader for
Core Enterprise & zCloud. "Our work with AWS enables businesses
to increase access to valuable mainframe data and leverage new
capabilities that will show the benefits of cloud automation and
enhanced insights from their IT environments."
"AWS Mainframe Modernization service offers customers a
comprehensive approach to modernize mainframe applications," said
Bill Platt, General Manager for
Migration Services at AWS. "Working with Kyndryl, we're providing
the tools and expertise to help joint customers assess existing
mainframe workloads, identify candidates for modernization, and
create migration plans to help them identify opportunities to
accelerate business value."
For more information about how Kyndryl and AWS are working to
support mainframe customers, please
visit: https://www.kyndryl.com/about-us/alliances/aws.
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.
Kyndryl Press Contact
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