Kyndryl enters strategic partnership with Microsoft to support hybrid cloud adopt

Kyndryl, formerly IBM's infrastructure managed services business, will partner with Microsoft to build solutions for Azure, accelerate hybrid cloud adoption, provide support for customer workloads, and modernize apps.

Microsoft will be Kyndryl's "only" Premier Global Alliance Partner, according to an announcement. Additionally, the two companies will focus on data modernization, creating a new co-innovation lab, and setting up Kyndryl University for Microsoft.