Red Hat announced a strategic partnership to help customers embrace open, differentiated automation technologies and managed services to modernise core business applications and IT infrastructure while enabling scalable enterprise operations and greater resilience with advanced security capabilities.
Together, Red Hat and Kyndryl will offer integrated services and solutions based on the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to automate critical workloads from the enterprise data centre to the edge and across public clouds.
With this collaboration, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform becomes the primary enterprise automation solution across Kyndryl’s infrastructure services, with Kyndryl as a leading service provider for the Ansible Automation Platform. Kyndryl is currently one of the largest global users of the Ansible Automation Platform, running tens of millions of automation and managing more than 500,000 customer endpoints worldwide. Kyndryl plans to further scale its automation architecture through joint engineering work with Red Hat to extend its storage and network automation capabilities across its services team.
“Customers today are operating in increasingly diverse and complex IT environments, spanning on-premises data centres to public and private clouds. Automated solutions and managed services are crucial for customers to effectively scale and manage today’s hybrid multi-cloud landscape. Red Hat’s collaboration with Kyndryl integrates automation with managed services to support customers across infrastructure, networking and cloud operations, alleviating the burden of manual IT operations and making it easier to grow into the future,” said Stefanie Chiras, Senior Vice President, Partner Ecosystem Success, Red Hat.
In addition, Kyndryl and Red Hat will establish an Ansible Innovation Centre to co-create solutions and help customers realise hybrid cloud transformation by automating IT operations and services from the infrastructure level to the cloud and the edge. This will include jointly developed playbooks, enablement and support based on Ansible Automation Platform and Kyndryl infrastructure services.
Kyndryl and Red Hat already support almost 900 customers globally and are working with companies like Bord Gais Energy, an energy and services supplier in Ireland, to help them reap the benefits of advanced automation and managed automation services with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
