Kyndryl and Veeam Software today announced a global strategic alliance focused on providing customers with resilience services supported by innovative technology, expert infrastructure management and incident recovery services.
Under the alliance, Kyndryl will now be a Veeam Accredited Service Partner (VASP). Kyndryl offers professional services and technology implementation integrated with Veeam solutions, providing customers with options to:
- Comprehensive Cyber Resilience – Use an integrated approach to help clients strengthen stakeholder trust with strategies to effectively recover from adverse conditions, including cyber incidents, human errors, and hardware failures.
- Simplified Vendor Transitions – Give customers a seamless transition to a modern, security- and compliance-rich cloud-based infrastructure with scalable and customizable options for hybrid and multi-cloud backup and recovery.
- Modern Data Protection Solutions – Help customers modernize and protect data across their enterprise with a holistic, simplified approach on a single platform for effective, reliable data protection with robust defense for applications, data, and SaaS systems modern.
- Improved operational efficiencies – Built-in automation to drive operational efficiency, providing 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 customers benefit from simplified and holistic data protection and ransomware recovery, optimized costs, operational efficiency, regulatory compliance capabilities, and seamless data mobility along with cloud-native and Kubernetes environments with advanced security capabilities.
“Veeam is focused on ensuring organizations are prepared to emerge when the worst happens. Whether it’s a cyber attack, outage or natural disaster, we give customers peace of mind that their data is safe and can be quickly recovered to keep their business running,” said John Jester, CRO at Veeam. “We are excited to bring our technology together with Kyndryl’s scale and expertise to bring the benefits of Veeam technology to customers around the world. Together we will keep businesses running.”
“Enterprise Strategy Group’s research shows that the market urgently needs advanced cyber resilience globally, so the extended partnership between Veeam and Kyndryl comes at a critical time for the market,” said Christophe Bertrand, Enterprise Practice Director. StrategyGroup. “The robust offerings these long-time partners have come up with, based on their respective technologies and skills, focus on core customer and market needs. “We have watched this partnership grow successfully over the past few years, and we hope these robust offerings will be well received as organizations struggle with IT complexity and cybercrime.”
“With the increasing threat of cyber risks, maintaining cyber resilience is a top priority for our customers,” said 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.”
