Kyndryl, a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced an expanded strategic alliance with Broadcom to deliver end-to-end consulting services for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), bringing cloud-like speed, automation and developer experience to private and hybrid cloud environments.
Under expanded collaboration, Kyndryl and Broadcom are helping enterprises modernize, secure and scale mission-critical systems by building sovereign, AI-ready private clouds that reduce operational complexity, are secure by design and strengthen long-term performance. To support joint effort, Kyndryl and Broadcom are investing in skills development of several thousand certified Kyndryl consultants, architects, and delivery specialists to enable agentic workflows.
"Against backdrop of rising sovereignty demands, enterprises are rationalizing hybrid and private cloud environments, and they require pragmatic outcome-driven approach," said Giovanni Carraro, Global Strategic Alliances Leader at Kyndryl. "By expanding partnership with Broadcom and investing in VCF skills, we will help customers build modern, resilient, private clouds that enable AI adoption, support data modernization, address risk of AI-identified vulnerabilities and deliver real business value."
The announcement comes as enterprises confront rapidly shifting landscape. AI is accelerating innovation but also amplifying risk as Frontier AI models are collapsing zero-day exploits to just hours posing challenges to regulatory compliance and operations for organizations running critical systems. Sovereignty rules are reshaping where autonomous agents discover and exploit vulnerabilities across application source code, containers, VMs and pipelines at machine speed without conventional signatures. Modernizing IT infrastructures to defend against fast-moving adversaries requires private cloud hardened with policy guardrails and secure golden paths before workload is provisioned, not patched after fact.
"Our expanded relationship with Kyndryl helps ensure mutual customers have expert guidance required to fully leverage VMware Cloud Foundation as strategic private cloud platform," said Regan McGrath, President, Americas, Broadcom. "Kyndryl's global delivery capabilities and investment in certified talent provide enterprises foundation they need to drive agility, modernize applications and scale AI-driven innovation."
Kyndryl is also focused on helping mutual customers operationalize AI governance across VCF environments by applying Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework and its policy as code capability to hold agents to approved deterministic actions informed by business rules regulatory requirements so automation stays inside guardrails and drift is contained.
Through expanded collaboration, Kyndryl provides end-to-end VCF and VMware Tanzu transformation capabilities across advisory and strategy, architecture and design, upgrade and modernization and secure Day-2 operations, spanning virtualized and containerized workloads, while enabling seamless integration with public cloud landing zones as workloads evolve. With deep industry knowledge across financial services healthcare manufacturing transportation government regulated industries Kyndryl's modernization approach maximizes business impact.
Combining VCF private cloud capabilities with Kyndryl's managed services unlocks value of VCF enhanced through industrialized operations automation AIOps-driven delivery. Result is unified private cloud environment that runs virtual machine and containerized workloads including AI inferencing on single scalable platform. IT teams and platform engineers can deliver agile robust developer experience while maintaining security control sovereignty business requires. Additionally Kyndryl's cyber recovery capability built on VCF isolated recovery environments using VMware vDefend immutable snapshots using Advanced Cyber Compliance and orchestrated runbooks using VCF Automation Operations restores critical operations rapidly with verified integrity.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day.
