Kyndryl is extending its relationship with Nokia and expanding its menu of integration services by including more of Nokia’s data center networking products. Nokia’s portfolio includes data center switching for traditional enterprise and AI workloads, a data center gateway to link to cloud services, and optical data center interconnect products.
As part of the expanded partnership, Nokia’s Event-Driven Automation (EDA) technology will be integrated into ,” said Paul Savill, global practice leader for network and edge computing with Kyndryl.
Data centers are under pressure to handle the demands of AI and other large application workloads. “We expect Nokia’s offering will help customers better handle the rapidly expanding compute requirements and offer switching fabrics to help get their data center infrastructure ready,” Savill said.
Kyndryl and Nokia currently partner to offer private 5G and LTE implementations as well as edge, network and device-management services. Kyndryl also offers a variety of other data center connectivity services from partners including Cisco, Red Hat, Microsoft, Dell, HPE and NetApp.
Nokia, too, has some large data center partners. For example, Nokia recently expanded a multi-year agreement to supply Microsoft Azure with data center routers and switches.
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