Global infrastructure services provider Kyndryl has expanded its ability to help customers run or migrate their mainframe workloads to public clouds.
There are two ways that Kyndryl can do this. The first uses its Microsoft Ignite presence and create a new cloud product which mixes its managed services expertise with Microsoft Azure Stack HCI software and Dell Technologies hardware.
The idea is to help businesses with on-premises, remote or third-party data centre workloads accelerate their cloud transformation projects. The Microsoft Azure Stack HCI supports mainframe modernisation by connecting to on-premises mainframe or distributed computing infrastructures.
The second idea sees Kyndryl working with Google Dual Run, a service introduced Wednesday by Google as a way to migrate workloads off mainframes and onto the Google Cloud by letting the workloads work on both the cloud and on the mainframe until customers feel the time is right to take them off the mainframe altogether.
For those who came in late, Kyndryl, which was formerly the managed infrastructure services business of IBM before being spun out into a separate company, is taking advantage of its long history of working with mainframes to help customers modernise their mission-critical workloads.
Kyndryl global practice leader for Core Enterprise and zCloud Petra Goude said Kyndryl continues to launch capabilities to help customers launch the right workloads on the right platforms, including their mainframe workloads.
