Project lays the foundation for one of the world's oldest
general insurers to execute its ambitious digital and cloud
strategies
LONDON,
Dec. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/
-- Today Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world's largest IT
infrastructure services provider, and RSA Insurance (RSA), one
of the world's oldest general insurers, announced a collaboration
to accelerate RSA's digital transformation by executing an enormous
data migration project which has so far seen 85,000 gigabytes of
information moved to the cloud.
Cloud migration is a key component of RSA's IT infrastructure
modernisation drive. RSA turned to Kyndryl to digitally transform
its IT infrastructure to make the business more resilient and
operationally efficient so it can focus its resources on harnessing
data to deliver innovative new offerings for its customers.
RSA's mainframe operating system and most of its software
systems, support major operations to the tune of around 4.5 million
insurance policies. To help modernise its infrastructure and speed
innovation, RSA wanted to move its mainframe infrastructure,
software, and data to a robust and security-rich cloud
architecture. The efficiencies and performance improvements
included 30% faster complex automated data processing. This enables
RSA to be a more agile, innovative business and deliver new
products and services to its customers more quickly.
Kyndryl and RSA worked together to achieve the successful
migration. To ensure knowledge and skills transfer between them,
the teams ran more than 120 classroom-based virtual sessions and
specific one-to-one sessions. RSA's business testers also executed
more than 5,500 test cases to ensure everything was in place for a
seamless migration. The fact that it was completed within six
months versus an industry average of nine to twelve months for a
project of this scale and complexity is a testament to how well the
Kyndryl and RSA teams worked collaboratively in extenuating
circumstances.
Three mainframe environments were migrated to the IBM Z managed
extended cloud infrastructure, or zCloud. The zCloud solution
deployed is built to help deliver economies of scale in a securely
hosted, high-capacity, high-availability, multi-tenant mainframe
environment for primary and backup data centres. This migration is
also helping enable RSA to adhere to evolving regulatory
requirements from GDPR, which in turn helps them speed their
innovation since they can be confident their data is compliant.
For RSA, the migration to cloud is all about providing agility
to support a digital-first enterprise.
"Our goal is to provide a set of technologies that are
unparalleled in terms of competitive advantage and ensure that we
are outperforming in our chosen markets,"," commented Akhlas Hafiz, Head of Digital Transformation,
Technology Change and Delivery, RSA Insurance. "As an organisation,
we are moving away from legacy architecture to meet the demands of
scalable growth. In line with our cloud and digital first strategy,
this migration gives us the agility to improve delivery
predictability. Our move to the cloud is a key milestone on the
transformation roadmap. The ability to execute in 6 months
showcases the delivery capability we have developed."
Scalability and security are also key priorities for RSA's
digitally driven growth journey.
"The advantages of these data centres are the high availability
and security and resiliency-rich features," added Shahira Brennan, Managing Partner at Kyndryl.
"We're able to offer the highest levels of security and resiliency
to RSA to pass on to their customers. Security and resiliency
geared to protect data, protect applications, and to protect the
test and production environment."
The cloud migration represents an important milestone in RSA's
longstanding history in the insurance sector – its first mainframe
computer went live in 1969 with punch cards and flat files on an
IBM 360/65 with 512k RAM.
As RSA plans to continue modernising its technology
infrastructure, Kyndryl will stand side-by-side as one of its
trusted advisors.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is the world's
largest IT infrastructure services provider. The company designs,
builds, manages, and modernizes the complex, mission-critical
information systems that the world depends on every day. Kyndryl's
nearly 90,000 employees serve over 4,000 customers in more than 60
countries around the world, including 75 percent of the Fortune
100. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.