Kyndryl and Aptiv have announced a strategic partnership to help enterprises accelerate innovation across mission-critical environments by combining advanced edge computing technologies with enterprise IT services. The collaboration brings together Kyndryl's advisory, implementation, and managed services with Aptiv's Wind River software portfolio to support secure, scalable edge AI and cloud deployments across global industries.
As enterprises increasingly move critical workloads closer to the edge, organizations require secure and reliable infrastructure capable of supporting AI-driven operations. Through the new partnership, Kyndryl will provide advisory, implementation, and managed services to help customers modernize product engineering and customer experience while deploying Aptiv's Wind River technologies.
The collaboration is designed to help organizations reduce deployment complexity, improve operational resilience, and securely manage mission-critical applications across edge and cloud environments.
Under the agreement, Kyndryl will deploy several Wind River technologies as part of its enterprise solutions portfolio, including Wind River Cloud Platform, eLxr Pro, VxWorks, and Helix Virtualization Platform.
These technologies provide private and sovereign cloud capabilities, real-time operating systems, virtualization, and edge infrastructure designed to support industries where high availability, security, and performance are essential.
The companies plan to jointly develop integrated offerings and go-to-market initiatives that enable organizations to prepare for AI-driven edge computing while maintaining security, regulatory compliance, and operational continuity.
The partnership also aims to help enterprises operate and secure distributed environments more efficiently by combining advanced edge technologies with Kyndryl's global implementation expertise and managed services.
"More organizations are moving critical workloads to the edge, where applications cannot fail," said Jamie Rutledge, President, Kyndryl U.S. "By partnering with Aptiv to leverage Wind River technologies, we are strengthening Kyndryl's ability to deliver resilient, secure systems that can be deployed and managed at scale, while helping customers meet data sovereignty, regulatory and operational goals."
"As industries are faced with an increasingly intelligent edge and growth of AI workloads, Wind River technologies deliver the scalable, secure, and efficient infrastructure that can meet complex demands of mission-critical environments today and into the future. Together with Kyndryl, we unlock that capability at scale," said Ed Harbour, Chief Customer Officer, Intelligent Systems, Software and Services, Aptiv. "Our collaboration enables customers to innovate faster with easier access to proven, high-performance edge-and-cloud architectures, backed by trusted systems integration, operational support, and deployment reach."
By combining Aptiv's software technologies with Kyndryl's enterprise services expertise, the partnership seeks to expand the global adoption of Wind River products while enabling organizations across multiple industries to accelerate digital transformation initiatives.
The companies expect the collaboration to deliver more consistent operational outcomes for enterprises that require secure, high-performance infrastructure supporting edge AI, cloud computing, and mission-critical business operations.
The strategic collaboration between Kyndryl and Aptiv reflects growing enterprise demand for resilient edge AI infrastructure and cloud technologies. By integrating advanced edge computing software with managed enterprise services, the companies aim to help organizations simplify deployment, improve operational resilience, and accelerate innovation across mission-critical environments.
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) 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. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.
About Aptiv
Aptiv PLC (NYSE: APTV) is a global industrial technology leader delivering advanced solutions people trust when it matters most across automotive, commercial vehicle, aerospace and defense, telecom and datacom, and other diversified industrial end markets. Our differentiated portfolio enables devices and systems to sense, think, act, and continuously optimize performance. Building on decades of innovation, Aptiv brings global scale and a resilient, localized value chain to customers across the globe. Learn more at https://www.aptiv.com/.
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