Kyndryl to Fast-Track Cloud Transition & Transformation with NetApp

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

Kyndryl and NetApp will work together to enable clients across sectors to strengthen and increase their capacity to manage and extract business value from an avalanche of unstructured data, including text-based documents, images, audio and video files, IoT sensors, and other sources.

Specifically, the partners will combine Kyndryl’s IT infrastructure and managed services expertise with NetApp’s strong leadership in the top public clouds, as well as its edge-to-core-to-cloud scalability, to create new solutions that enable businesses to access, analyze, and derive insights from data spread across multiple platforms and clouds.

Based on more than 15 years of collaboration to provide best-of-breed solutions, the companies will combine their respective expertise to develop innovative solutions that help customers more efficiently and effectively manage, analyze, and optimize their data to inform and drive important business decisions.

Kyndryl and NetApp also plan to collaborate on advanced storage infrastructure-as-a-service solutions to give clients additional flexibility, variety, and value from the usage of unstructured data, as well as to assist businesses in gaining business value from their data.

To help companies to better organize, manage and reap insights through enhanced data management, Kyndryl and NetApp 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 a better understanding of customer preferences

Financial services – enhance customer satisfaction and deliver more targeted offerings