New Innovation Factory to speed design and
development of cloud, data, AI and generative AI projects
Kyndryl to strengthen base of AWS technical
specialists and certified experts supporting AI and generative AI
solutions on AWS
NEW
YORK, Nov. 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl
(NYSE: KD), the world's largest IT infrastructure services
provider, today announced a multi-year Strategic Collaboration
Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS), focused on
developing and delivering generative artificial intelligence (AI)
solutions and advanced machine learning (ML) capabilities. This
collaboration will help Kyndryl and AWS shared customers infuse
innovation across their businesses, drive efficiency, and
accelerate their digital transformation.
Under the agreement, Kyndryl and AWS intend to:
- Establish the Kyndryl and AWS Innovation Factory, a mutual
investment to co-create generative AI and ML solutions focused on
specific industry use cases. Leveraging the Innovation Factory and
Kyndryl's data-driven capabilities, customers can jump-start their
cloud modernization journey and accelerate their business
transformation.
- Enhance Kyndryl's capabilities to design, implement, migrate,
modernize and manage AWS cloud services across complex information
technology environments.
- Speed modernization of enterprise resource planning systems and
other applications on AWS through a shared strategic execution plan
designed to reduce costs, complexities and time.
- Deepen the expertise among Kyndryl's technical specialists to
rapidly expand the number of AWS based certifications and
specialist certifications on the 10,000+ AWS certifications already
obtained to add thousands more certifications.
"The expansion of our alliance with AWS fuels Kyndryl's ability
to help customers accelerate the adoption – and maximize the
benefit of – generative AI solutions," said Nicolas Sekkaki,
Kyndryl Applications, Data and AI global practice leader. "The
collaboration will also help Kyndryl scale its reach and ability to
facilitate customers' digital transformations on AWS through a
growing variety of application modernization options."
"Our customers turn to AWS Partners to support them through
their cloud migration journey, in optimizing their IT assets to
unlock future business growth and identifying how and where to
leverage new technologies for maximum business impact," said
Julia Chen, Vice President of
Partner Core at AWS. "We are delighted to be working with Kyndryl
to help our shared customers to leverage data to derive AI insights
at scale."
"Given Kyndryl's expertise and skills in supporting enterprises
in their digital transformation journey, we knew they would be the
ideal AWS Partner to modernize and migrate our mission-critical
workloads to AWS," said Michael
Wagner, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Care New
England. "This migration project is key to reducing our operations
costs, strengthening our system's data security and freeing up
valuable time for our staff to focus on providing the highest
quality patient care."
Kyndryl will also utilize its AI-readiness program to further
support customers in the adoption of responsible AWS generative AI
services. This program relies on Kyndryl's deep domain knowledge
and enterprise-grade AI expertise to provide customers with the
necessary end-to-end services to incorporate generative AI
solutions that will drive business impact.
For more information about Kyndryl's data and AI services,
please visit: https://www.kyndryl.com/us/en/services/data
For more information on Kyndryl's alliance with AWS, please
visit: https://www.kyndryl.com/in/en/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.
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