Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the IT services company, and Veeam® Software, market leader in Data Replication and Protection Software, have announced a global strategic alliance focused on providing customers with resilience services backed by innovative technology, expert infrastructure management, and incident recovery services. Thanks to the new alliance, Kyndryl will now be a Veeam Accredited Service Partner (VASP).
Kyndryl offers professional services and technical implementation integrated with Veeam solutions, providing customers with options for:
– Comprehensive cyber resilience: Using an integrated approach to help customers strengthen stakeholder trust with strategies to effectively recover from adverse conditions, including cyber incidents, human errors, and hardware failures.
– Simplified provider transitions: Providing customers with a seamless transition to a modern, cloud-based infrastructure rich in security and regulatory compliance, with scalable and customizable options for hybrid and multi-cloud backups and recovery.
– Modern data protection solutions: Helping customers modernize and protect data across their entire enterprise with a simplified and comprehensive approach on a single platform for effective and reliable data protection with a strong defense for modern applications, data, and SaaS systems.
– Increased operational efficiency: Integrated automation to drive operational efficiency, enabling customers the flexibility to adapt to changing business needs and industry standards.
The alliance combines Kyndryl’s expertise in managed security services and infrastructure management capabilities with Veeam. Kyndryl’s customers benefit from simplified and holistic ransomware data protection and recovery, optimized costs, operational efficiency, compliance features, seamless data mobility along with native cloud environments and Kubernetes with advanced security features.
“Veeam focuses on ensuring organizations are prepared to recover when the worst happens. Whether it’s a cyber-attack, service disruption, or natural disaster, we offer our customers the peace of mind that their data is safe and can be quickly recovered to keep their business running,” says John Jester, CRO of Veeam. “We are excited to combine our technology with Kyndryl’s scale and expertise to bring the benefits of Veeam technology to customers worldwide. Together, we will keep businesses running.”
“Enterprise Strategy Group research shows that the market urgently needs advanced global cyber resilience, so expanding the partnership between Veeam and Kyndryl comes at a critical time for the market,” comments Christophe Bertrand, Practice Director at Enterprise Strategy Group. “The strong offerings that these long-standing partners have devised, based on their respective technologies and skillsets, focus on key customer and market needs. We have successfully seen this alliance grow over the years, and we look forward to these solid offerings being well-received at a time when companies are battling IT complexity and cybercrime.”
“With the increasing threat of cyber risks, maintaining cyber resilience is an absolute priority for our customers,” says Debbie Nevin, Vice President of Global Alliances at Kyndryl. “Our alliance with Veeam allows us to support our customers’ business continuity posture and their ability to recover from increasingly sophisticated cyber incidents.”
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is the technology services company serving thousands of businesses and organizations in over 60 countries. The company designs, builds, manages, and modernizes the critical information systems on which the world depends every day.
About Veeam
Veeam®, the market leader in data protection and replication software, aims to help all organizations not only recover from a disruption or data loss but to move forward. With Veeam, organizations achieve radical resilience through data security, data recovery, and data freedom for their hybrid cloud. Veeam Data Platform offers a unique solution for cloud, virtual, physical, SaaS, and Kubernetes environments that provides IT and security professionals with the peace of mind that their applications and data are protected and always available.
Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, and with offices in over 30 countries, Veeam protects over 450,000 customers worldwide, including 74% of the Global 2000, who rely on Veeam to keep their businesses running. Radical resilience starts with Veeam.