{"id":42797,"date":"2022-02-23T10:32:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T10:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=c038fce7f54c3f4fbd992df237e3660f"},"modified":"2022-02-23T10:32:52","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T10:32:52","slug":"kyndryl-and-aws-partner-to-create-a-centre-of-excellence-for-cloud-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/kyndryl-and-aws-partner-to-create-a-centre-of-excellence-for-cloud-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyndryl and AWS partner to create a centre of excellence for cloud customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field-name-field-author field-type-node-reference field-label-hidden\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"field-item even\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/authors\/bobby-hellard\">Bobby Hellard<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">23 Feb, 2022<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"short-teaser\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudpro.co.uk\/\" title=\"\" class=\"combined-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/business\/business-operations\/359188\/ibm-infrastructure-services-spin-off-to-be-named-kyndryl\" >Kyndryl<\/a>\u00a0has signed a cloud partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer joint consultancy on cloud workloads.<\/p>\n<p>IBM&#8217;s former infrastructure unit has also confirmed that it will use\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/amazon-web-services-aws\" >AWS<\/a>\u00a0as one of its preferred cloud providers for its own internal workloads.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!--wysiwyg_see-related_plugin--><\/p>\n<p>\nThe partnership will focus on building a global practice for AWS skills, services and expertise to deliver a &#8220;best-in-class&#8221; customer experience. This will include an AWS Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) where customers will be able to access services that support mission-critical infrastructure, new technologies, and applications that work across workflows and industries.<\/p>\n<p>With the Global Center of Excellence, Kyndryl said it will be able to optimise customer migration journey&#8217;s with AWS technology.<\/p>\n<p>The partnership will also deal with VMware workloads on AWS, with skilled practitioners from all three companies delivering deep expertise for custom services.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/virtualisation\/30712\/vmware-and-aws-bring-hybrid-partnership-to-europe\" >AWS already has an extensive partnership with AWS<\/a>, but the new deal with Kyndryl will help to boost any existing customer investments on VMware.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our ability to freely explore and unleash the combined benefits of AWS cloud services with Kyndryl&#8217;s deep industry-specific managed services and expertise will provide an unprecedented level of knowledge and innovation,&#8221; said Martin Schroeter, CEO of Kyndryl. &#8220;Together, we will invest in enhancing Kyndryl&#8217;s expertise in AWS to help companies modernise, innovate, and compete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0This is the latest in a string of cloud-based announcements Kyndryl has made since its split from IBM. The company now has deals in place with the three biggest cloud providers &#8211; AWS,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itpro.co.uk\/business\/business-strategy\/361524\/kyndryl-microsoft-cloud-deal-first-since-ibm-split\" >Microsoft<\/a><span>\u00a0and Google Cloud &#8211; which it believes will enable it to tap into an estimated $150 billion from the IT services market by 2025.<\/span><br \/>\n<span>\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span>All of these deals would not have been possible, according to the company, had it still been a part of IBM, with the spilt allowing it to play an active role in the $90 billion cloud services market.\u00a0<\/span> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>      Bobby Hellard<\/p>\n<p>        23 Feb, 2022    <\/p>\n<p>      Kyndryl\u00a0has signed a cloud partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer joint consultancy on cloud workloads.<br \/>\nIBM&#8217;s former infrastructure unit has also confirmed that it will use\u00a0AWS\u00a0as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42811,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42797\/revisions\/42811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}