Kyndryl and Elastic announced an expanded global partnership to provide customers full-stack
observability, enabling them to accelerate their ability to search,
analyze and act on machine data (IT data and business data) stored
across hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and edge computing environments.
Under
the partnership, Kyndryl and Elastic will collaborate on creating joint
solutions and delivery capabilities designed to provide deep,
frictionless observability at all levels of applications, services, and
infrastructure to address customer data, analytics and IT operations
management challenges.
The
companies will focus on delivering large-scale IT operations and AIOps
capabilities to joint customers by leveraging Kyndryl's data framework
and toolkits and Elastic's Enterprise Search, Observability, and
Security solutions, enabling streamlined migrations, modernized
infrastructure and tenant management, and AI development for efficient
and proactive IT management.
As
part of the partnership, Kyndryl and Elastic plan to collaborate to
support customer needs and requirements via joint offerings and
solutions across the following areas:
- IT Data Modernization - Helping organizations manage exponential storage growth and giving them the capability to search for data wherever it resides.
- IT Data Management Services for Elastic -
Providing flexibility to users of Elastic by letting Kyndryl manage the
entire stack infrastructure and analytics workloads for IT operations.
- Intelligent IT Analytics -
Enabling actionable observability through AI/ML capabilities that
deliver unified insights for proactive and efficient IT operations with
technology domain-specific insights.
- Data Migration Services for Elastic -
Delivering the capability to streamline migrations and deploy
self-managed Elastic workloads to the hyperscalers of a customer's
choice.
Kyndryl's
global team of data management experts will also participate in the
global Elastic certification program to expand their expertise in
advising, implementing and managing Elastic solutions across critical IT
projects and environments.
"Customers
in all industries are seeking to improve their capacity to search and
analyze the data stored in the cloud and on edge computing
environments," said Nicolas Sekkaki, Applications, Data & AI global
practice leader for Kyndryl. "We are happy to partner with Elastic to
create and bring forward a unified approach that will help customers
overcome hurdles and improve their ability to access and gain insights
at scale from their business data."
"Enabling
customers to gain actionable insights from their data is a key enabler
of data-driven digital transformation," said Scott Musson, Vice
President, Worldwide Channel and Alliances at Elastic. "The combination
of Kyndryl's global expertise in managing mission-critical information
systems and the proven scale and flexibility of the Elastic Search
Platform provides the critical foundation to help organizations drive
speed, scale, and productivity, and address their observability needs
across hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and edge computing environments."