Observed Signal · Apr 23, 2026 · Partnership · Source: https://martechseries.com/feed/ · Impact: 4/5 · Sentiment: Positive
Kyndryl Expands Google Cloud Partnership for IT Modernization
Kyndryl announced an expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to accelerate large-scale enterprise IT modernization, data enablement, and AI adoption. The companies are deploying and managing Google Cloud solutions across industries to improve resilience, sustainability and operational agility. Customer engagements highlighted include PiSA Farmacéutica in Mexico (cloud foundation and migration), Southbay (Nike’s distributor in Argentina and Uruguay) for retail data management, and an extended agreement with CMPC in Chile to migrate ERP and corporate applications while integrating Kyndryl Bridge. Kyndryl also launched an agentic AI-powered Aviation Industry Cloud Solution built to run on Google Cloud and achieved the Google Cloud Ready – Energy & Carbon designation to support customers’ sustainability goals. Giovanni Carraro, Global Strategic Alliances Leader at Kyndryl, is quoted on the partnership’s momentum and focus on AI and cloud foundations.
An expanded collaboration between a major systems integrator (Kyndryl) and a hyperscaler (Google Cloud) accelerates enterprise cloud migrations, AI enablement, data modernization and sustainability initiatives—impacting how enterprises provision cloud infrastructure and manage data for future AI workloads.
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Key Takeaways & Evidence Grounding
- Kyndryl expanded and strengthened its collaboration with Google Cloud to support enterprise IT modernization and AI initiatives.
- Customer engagements named include PiSA Farmacéutica (Mexico), Southbay (Nike’s distributor in Argentina and Uruguay), and an extended agreement with CMPC (Chile).
- Kyndryl launched an agentic AI-powered Aviation Industry Cloud Solution designed to run on Google Cloud.
- Kyndryl achieved the Google Cloud Ready – Energy & Carbon designation to support energy-efficient IT operations and carbon-reduction initiatives.
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Kyndryl and AWS Expand Collaboration for Agentic AI
Kyndryl expanded its multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate enterprise adoption, deployment and scaling of agentic AI for mission-critical IT workloads. The expanded SCA commits investments to grow Kyndryl’s global AWS business and technical teams (which include more than 11,000 AWS-certified professionals), with AWS funding talent development, joint solution engineering, AI specialization and industry-focused modernization capabilities. Kyndryl and AWS will co-develop industry-specific agentic AI modernization blueprints and advanced delivery capabilities, continue joint go-to-market activities, and collaborate on initiatives including the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. The announcement cites a recent Kyndryl–AWS migration for Alpitour World as an example of their joint modernization work.
Kyndryl Launches Agentic Modernization Services-as-Software
Kyndryl announced Agentic Modernization services-as-software, built on its Agentic AI Framework and scaled via Kyndryl Bridge. The offering codifies Kyndryl’s engineering expertise and partner capabilities into pre-defined agentic workflows designed to accelerate enterprise modernization, reduce risk, and maintain governance and cost visibility. Kyndryl Bridge — launched in 2022 and used by more than 1,400 customers — is presented as the foundation for deploying, orchestrating, and governing agentic workflows and AI agents across hybrid IT estates. The announcement includes customer examples of legacy code refactoring, mainframe-to-cloud modernization, and deployment across global engineering teams.
Kyndryl Launches AI Orchestration for Business
Kyndryl announced Kyndryl AI Orchestration for Business, a new capability built on the Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework to coordinate AI agents across supply chain, commerce, finance, IT and customer operations. Targeting industries such as retail, consumer packaged goods (CPG), travel and transportation, the offering enables agentic workflows (e.g., agentic commerce, proactive supply‑chain disruption management, role‑based operational orchestration) with policy-driven execution and auditability. Kyndryl Consult will help customers design, deliver and deploy the capability; it is cloud- and large-language-model-agnostic, integrates with existing enterprise platforms, and can operate with or without managed services. Kyndryl positions the capability to unlock legacy data (including mainframes), support Model Context Protocol servers, and accelerate enterprise-scale AI adoption while retaining human oversight and governance.
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