Technology infrastructure services provider Kyndryl and data replication and protection software specialist Veeam Software have formed a global strategic alliance.
The deal will focus on providing customers with resilient services supported by innovative technology, expert infrastructure management and incident recovery services. Under the alliance, Kyndryl will now become a Veeam Certified Services Partner (VASP).
Kyndryl provides professional services and technical implementation integrated with Veeam solutions, providing customers with the following options:
- Comprehensive Network flexibility: Use an integrated approach to help clients increase stakeholder confidence and develop strategies to effectively recover from adverse conditions, including cyber incidents, human error and hardware failures.
- Simplified supplier switching: Provide customers with a seamless transition to a modern, security- and compliance-rich cloud infrastructure with scalable and customizable hybrid and multi-cloud backup and recovery options.
- Modern data protection solutions: Helping customers modernize and protect data across the enterprise through a simplified, holistic approach on a single platform, enabling effective, reliable data protection and powerful defense for modern SaaS applications, data and systems.
- Improve operational efficiency: Integrating automation increases operational efficiency and gives customers the flexibility to adapt to changing business needs and industry standards.
The alliance combines Kyndryl’s expertise in managed security services and infrastructure management capabilities with Veeam. Kyndryl customers benefit from simplified and comprehensive data protection and ransomware recovery, optimized costs, operational efficiencies, compliance capabilities, seamless data mobility, and cloud-native and Kubernetes environments with advanced security capabilities.
“Veeam is committed to ensuring organizations are prepared to recover when the worst happens,” said John Jester, chief risk officer at Veeam. “Whether it’s a cyber attack, an outage or a natural disaster, we give our customers peace of mind that their data is Secure and recoverable quickly to keep your business running.
“We are excited to combine our technology with Kyndryl’s scale and expertise to bring the benefits of Veeam technology to customers around the world. Together, we will keep the business running.”
Christophe Bertrand, Practice Director at Enterprise Strategy Group, said: “Enterprise Strategy Group research shows that the global market urgently needs advanced network resiliency, which is why the expanded partnership between Veeam and Kyndryl comes at a critical time for the market.
“These long-term partners design strong products based on their respective technologies and skill sets, focusing on core customer and market needs. We have witnessed the successful development of this partnership over the past few years, and we expect that in the enterprise These powerful products will be well received as we grapple with IT complexity and cybercrime.”
“As cyber risk threats continue to increase, maintaining cyber resilience is a top priority for our customers,” said Debbie Nevin, vice president of global alliances at Kyndryl.
“Our partnership with Veeam allows us to support our customers’ business continuity posture and ability to recover from increasingly complex cyber events.”
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