Kyndryl to become delivery partner of Pure Storage for automation, multi-cloud, containerisation

Kyndryl and Pure Storage 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, multi-cloud 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 multi-cloud 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.