By Petra Goude, Global Practice Leader for Core Enterprise & zCloud at Kyndryl
Modernizing IT systems like the mainframe can be a complex and challenging process, but an essential task for businesses to meet profitability and growth goals. Wherever they are on their journey, businesses need to have a robust strategy for modernizing mainframes as part of an increasingly hybrid cloud world. However, some companies run mission-critical systems and applications that aren’t cloud native — and they lack the in-house skills to maintain, modernize, integrate or migrate them.
As organizations start or accelerate their digital transformation journeys, they often look for partners with hyperscaler and mainframe expertise, and the capabilities to help them manage complex IT transformation initiatives to achieve their business goals.
Kyndryl and Hyperscalers
We recently expanded our relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help customers simplify and accelerate their mainframe AWS mainframe modernization environments and help customers optimize deployments.
The new capabilities are designed to seamlessly integrate mainframe applications, data and operations with AWS technologies, or to move mainframe workloads to AWS. Now we can provide an end-to-end mainframe transformation factory and seamless hybrid estate management for joint customers. Additionally, we’re enabling the integration of AWS environments with Kyndryl Bridge, our open integration platform, for enhanced operational insights.