- Alliance will provide end-to-end network and cybersecurity
services for joint enterprise customers
- Kyndryl releases a new SD-WAN service offering powered by Palo
Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN to enable customers to digitally
transform and meet demands of enterprise mobility
- Kyndryl's joint innovation lab will showcase innovative
industrial 5G and edge use cases by the end of 2023
NEW
YORK, Oct. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl
(NYSE: KD), the world's largest IT infrastructure services
provider, today announced a strategic global alliance with Palo
Alto Networks to provide end-to-end network and cybersecurity
services, including the launch of a new service offering, powered
by Prisma SD-WAN for enterprises and Industry 4.0 customers.
The alliance brings together Palo Alto Networks industry-leading
platform security capabilities with Kyndryl's advanced network
security services expertise to design, build, manage, and modernize
mission-critical networking for customers across industries.
The companies are joining forces to capitalize on emerging
opportunities in the SD-WAN infrastructure market that IDC
estimates will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 10.1%
through 2027. As the demands of enterprise mobility accelerate,
enterprises are looking for greater operational agility to support
their digital transformation. Businesses need to support the
growing number of devices used to access the corporate network and
cloud-based applications, while also meeting evolving security and
compliance requirements.
Kyndryl and Palo Alto Networks are partnering to help businesses
deliver consistent security and an enhanced user experience for
customers everywhere, and across industries such as services,
manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and retail. Kyndryl's new SD-WAN
offering, powered by Prisma SD-WAN, will enable customers to
transform and modernize their networks and meet the growing
bandwidth demands of the proliferation of devices and cloud
traffic. The new approach to network connectivity will provide a
single pane of glass management to their networks, and simplifies
deployment to branch-offices and edge services. By helping
customers transition into a flexible and scalable network, Kyndryl
will be able to help enterprises build a roadmap and incorporate
new security paradigms such as SASE with Kyndryl Consulting
services.
"At Kyndryl, we are at the forefront of helping enterprises with
their network transformation to meet the growing trends of remote
work, multi-devices usage, and cloud and data access. As
organizations move away from traditional hardware-centric models to
OPEX consumption models, the need for agile, highly secure and
reliable networks is imperative," said Stephen Leonard, SVP of Global Strategic
Alliances, Kyndryl. "We are delighted to partner with Palo Alto
Networks to provide robust and versatile network security services
that will provide many benefits to our customers."
"Together with Kyndryl, we are enabling enterprises to digitally
transform confidently and innovate securely, while reaping the
benefits of consolidating disparate security solutions into an
integrated, best of breed platform," said Prem Iyer, SVP of Global Ecosystems for Palo
Alto Networks. "We are committed to helping our joint customers
achieve better security outcomes while protecting the modern
connected organization from increasingly sophisticated
attacks."
The global partnership between Kyndryl and Palo Alto Networks
builds on the companies' established collaboration around security
services and solutions. In July Kyndryl launched its new
Security Operations as a platform (SOaap) solution leveraging Palo
Alto Networks Cortex technology to drive operational savings and
time-to-value through automation and orchestration.
Earlier this year, Kyndryl and Palo Alto Networks, together with
Nokia, established an innovation lab in support of joint
enterprise customers. By the end of the year, customers will be
able to view innovative industrial edge use cases running on cloud,
4.9G/LTE and 5G private wireless connectivity. This will include
remote manufacturing process control and real-time analytics on
factory production sites, provisioning and management of mobile
devices to improve the employee and frontline worker experience for
onboarding and communication, and IT and OT security integration
for worker safety and operational efficiencies. Kyndryl's
industrial edge platform will be integrated with a multi-factor
zero trust model built on Palo Alto Networks next-generation
firewalls, run on Nokia's MXIE Industrial edge as part of Nokia
Digital Automation Cloud (DAC)'s solutions, and with end-to-end
managed services provided by Kyndryl.
Visit Kyndryl to learn more information about Kyndryl's
SD-WAN and SASE Services.
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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