Kyndryl and NetApp Form Alliance

Kyndryl, Inc. and NetApp, Inc. announced a global alliance to help customers transform their businesses by unlocking insights from data stored on premises, in the cloud and edge computing environments.

Under the alliance, the companies will collaborate to help customers across industries enhance and improve their ability to manage and extract business value from an avalanche of unstructured data including text-based documents, photos, audio and video files, IoT sensors and other sources.

Specifically, the partners will align Kyndryl’s IT infrastructure and managed services expertise with NetApp’s leadership with the top public clouds along with its edge-to-core-to-cloud scalability to create solutions that enable companies to access, analyze and derive insights from data that sits across multiple platforms and multiple clouds.

“We’re pleased to announce our strategic relationship with NetApp to help customers solve some of their most pressing data and IT challenges,” said Elly Keinan, group president, Kyndryl. “The combination of our respective expertise and technology leadership will enable companies in all industries to transition more and more of their critical applications to the cloud, while driving valuable insights from their unstructured data across IT modernization.“

The companies will combine their respective expertise, based on over 15 years of collaborating to provide solutions, to develop solutions that help customers to manage, analyze and optimize their data to inform and drive important business decisions.

“Increasingly the ability to manage and analyze large amounts of unstructured data in concert with traditional structured data is a key enabler of data-driven business transformation. NetApp’s strategic partnership with Kyndryl enables joint delivery of critical data infrastructure services that will accelerate future innovation and business impact for customers and fast track cloud adoption,” said George Kurian, CEO, NetApp. “This momentum and collective success within key industries made it clear it was time to elevate our relationship with Kyndryl and work together on solutions that address similar challenges in other data-centric market segments.“

The 2 partners also intend to co-design storage infrastructure-as-a-service solutions to provide customers greater flexibility, versatility and value from the use of unstructured information and help companies derive business value from their data.

To help companies to better organize, manage and reap insights through enhanced data management, the partners will collaborate on new hybrid cloud solutions and services tailored and tuned to address industry-specific challenges, such as:

• Automotive and manufacturing – fast-track processes and better understand customer preferences
• Financial services – enhance customer satisfaction and deliver more targeted offerings

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