NEW YORK and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE:
KD), the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, and
Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers
storage as-a-service in a multicloud world, today announced a
global alliance that joins the expertise and operational experience
of Kyndryl with the best-in-class storage technology of Pure to
deliver mission-critical capabilities to enterprises.
As part of the new alliance, Kyndryl will become a key delivery
partner for Pure, expanding on already integrated solutions and
increasing its existing Pure skills and capabilities to drive
transformative business outcomes for customers.
Together, Pure and Kyndryl will deliver jointly optimized
solutions to address the complex challenges enterprises face
related to application and infrastructure modernization,
automation, multicloud management, containerization, and
more – providing cyber resiliency elements natively at the
storage layer to enable cloud-based applications coupled with data
portability in the cloud or on-premises.
Kyndryl is advancing a strategy that combines deep technical
expertise, global industry knowledge and best-in-class technologies
from partners to deliver comprehensive and differentiated offerings
to customers. Partnering with Pure augments and supports Kyndryl's
approach by providing advanced storage and data management
solutions grounded in Pure's ethos of simplicity, reliability,
agility, and innovation that sets the company apart from other
infrastructure providers.
"Our alliance with Pure Storage can help customers identify and
take advantage of new ways to manage, secure, and analyze their
mission-critical multicloud business data," said Stephen Leonard, Global Alliances &
Partnerships Leader, Kyndryl. "We look forward to working with Pure
to deliver advanced capabilities that customers can use to
modernize and transform their businesses."
"We've fostered a true collaboration with Kyndryl that will
address our shared customers' business challenges and drive the
transformation and modernization they are undertaking," said
Wendy Stusrud, VP, Global Partner
Sales, Pure Storage. "Our strategic relationship will provide
market leading solutions that enable customers to maximize their
data assets across their organizations with confidence."
All new and enhanced joint offerings can be delivered
as-a-service and charged on a consumption basis.
To learn more about Kyndryl alliances, visit:
www.kyndryl.com/us/en/about-us/alliances
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.
About Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) gives
technologists their time back. Pure delivers a modern data
experience that empowers organizations to run their operations as a
true, automated, storage as-a-service model seamlessly across
multiple clouds. Pure helps customers put data to use while
reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure
behind it. And with a certified customer satisfaction score in the
top one percent of B2B companies, Pure's ever-expanding list of
customers are among the happiest in the world. For more
information, visit www.purestorage.com.
Pure Analyst Recognition:
- Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage
Arrays
- Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed File
Systems & Object Storage
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