Kyndryl, the largest provider of IT infrastructure services globally, has announced the launch of its first Mainframe Modernization Center of Excellence (CoE) in Malaysia in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS). This CoE will combine Kyndryl’s expertise in mission-critical mainframe systems with AWS’s capabilities to help businesses upgrade and migrate legacy applications to a cloud-native environment.
The Malaysia-based CoE will collaborate closely with Kyndryl’s global CoE in the United States, catering to businesses across the ASEAN region. Malaysia’s digital economy, representing 23.2% of GDP, is driving organizations to transform and remain agile. Despite the prevalence of mainframes in business operations worldwide, organizations are looking to accelerate their modernization processes, for which Kyndryl’s collaboration with AWS will provide support.
The CoE will offer deep IT expertise, strategic guidance, and skills in mainframe and cloud technologies to enterprise customers. By bringing together Kyndryl’s experts in consultant and managed services with AWS’s solutions architects, customers will benefit from a tailored modernization strategy to enhance the value of their mainframe applications. industries such as the banking sector in ASEAN, heavily reliant on mainframe technology, can benefit from dynamic scaling of resources on AWS, ensuring peak performance during transaction volumes and reducing costs associated with legacy applications.
Pete Murray, Country Manager of AWS Malaysia, emphasized the commitment to optimizing workloads across cloud and mainframe environments to deliver business value. With the upcoming AWS Malaysia Infrastructure Region, organizations in ASEAN can optimize technology investments to meet data residency requirements, lower latency, and leverage enhanced scalability. Kyndryl Malaysia’s General Manager, Effendi Azmi Hashim, highlighted the company’s role in supporting enterprises across the ASEAN region in their mainframe transformation journeys, driving digital transformation efforts in various sectors locally and regionally.
Through this CoE, companies partnering with Kyndryl can expect support for core infrastructure, on-premises or at Kyndryl sites, and cost-effective cloud solutions for IBM Z and IBM i environments. For more information on how Kyndryl and AWS are supporting mainframe customers, visit their website.
Kyndryl, listed on the NYSE as KD, is the leading IT infrastructure services provider globally, catering to enterprise customers in over 60 countries. The company focuses on designing, building, managing, and modernizing complex, mission-critical information systems essential for daily operations. For inquiries, contact press@kyndryl.com.
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