Alliance will provide managed edge-to-cloud
and networking services to help customers transform their IT and
accelerate digital initiatives
NEW
YORK, Feb. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl
(NYSE: KD), the world's largest IT infrastructure services
provider, today announced a global strategic alliance with Hewlett
Packard Enterprise (HPE). Kyndryl is working with Athonet, a
Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, to jointly develop and
deliver LTE and 5G private wireless services to customers
worldwide.
By combining private LTE/5G, powered by Athonet, a Hewlett
Packard Enterprise company, and enterprise campus wired and WLAN
(Wi-Fi 6) connectivity solutions from HPE Aruba Networking, Kyndryl
will be able to provide enterprises with the ability to integrate
private 5G and Wi-Fi networks. This technology combination will
offer enterprise customers across sectors security-rich, expanded
connectivity, business agility, and enhanced overall
experience.
Kyndryl's private wireless network customers will be able to
leverage Kyndryl Bridge, the industry's first open-integration
technology services platform, to gain actionable insights of their
networks. With AIOps as a key integrated part of Kyndryl Bridge,
customers can automate IT infrastructure, reduce the risk of
network downtime, and improve the mean time to repair (MTTR).
"As a longstanding partner of HPE, we are thrilled to expand our
relationship with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to a global strategic
alliance," said Paul Savill, Global
Network & Edge Computing Practice Leader, Kyndryl. "Adding the
private LTE/5G service to our joint capabilities will enable to us
to capture new markets and customers, doing what we do best
together to help large, global enterprises modernize, innovate and
secure their businesses."
Kyndryl and HPE currently offer multiple Compute as a
Service (CaaS), multi-cloud mobility, networking and WLAN (Wi-Fi
6), ransomware and disaster recovery solutions for joint customers.
As an HPE GreenLake Partner, Kyndryl was named HPE's Global
System Integrator Momentum Partner of the Year in 2023, which
recognized Kyndryl's innovative solutions, agility, and scale and
its use of HPE solutions to drive customer success. The two
companies jointly support customers worldwide across various
industries, including healthcare, fashion, beauty, financial
services, telecommunications providers and transportation.
"We are extremely excited to work with Kyndryl to deliver our
private 5G solutions to large global enterprises. Kyndryl is
ideally positioned to deliver the flexibility of Athonet's open
architecture solutions that can work with any radio and any
edge-to-cloud environment to customers who need demanding and
robust private 5G solutions rather than less flexible closed-box
solutions," said David Stark, VP
& GM, Telco Solutions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. "Kyndryl
is also well equipped to bring our Wi-Fi and private 5G solutions
together seamlessly to have a single fabric of wireless
connectivity for digital and mission-critical communications across
their entire operations that is already integrated into the
existing IT infrastructure."
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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