Kyndryl Distributed Cloud forMicrosoft Azure Stack HCI
with Azure Arc
Customer challenges
Many customers with responsibilities in infrastructuretechnology and cloud managed services have plans tomodernize and migrate their mission critical workloads ontoMicrosoft® Azure®. But digital transformation can be stalled byskills gaps associated with managing diverse IT environmentswith varying tools and degrees of user experience. Other
common challenges are:
→ Workloads may have strict data sovereignty,
latency, or security requirements→ Disparate IT environments present manual andtime-consuming management processes→ There is a limited availability of resources→ Legacy infrastructure is costly to run and maintain→ Managing security and compliance on a global
scale is highly complex

Solution highlights
Kyndryl™ Distributed Cloud for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI
with Azure Arc provides end-to-end services for Azure Stack
HCI with Azure Arc. Kyndryl designs, plans, implements, andmanages a Microsoft Azure Stack HCI environment to help
customers innovate anywhere. This fully integrated offering
helps you quickly establish a private cloud hyperconverged
infrastructure. The solution includes:→ Strategy, architecture, migration, orchestration,deployment, and workload management services→ Implementation of incremental Azure Stack features
or workloads such as backup, virtualization, containers,
VDI, and database→ Expert delivery team from Kyndryl and the flexibility
to add incremental services

Customer benefits
Gain a unified experience across all your platforms anddeployment types with Kyndryl Distributed Cloud for Microsoft
Azure Stack HCI with Azure Arc. Kyndryl is a single trusted
provider that can quickly design, coordinate, implement andvirtualize your private cloud infrastructure, wherever you chooseto deploy. We can help you achieve reduced complexity anddeep integration with Azure Arc for centralized managementof distributed IT assets. Customers benefit through:123→ Pre-architected and validated Microsoft HCI-certified
hardware with Azure Arc software for single-pane ofglass management across all platforms→ Support for on-premises, multicloud, hybrid, branch
office, and edge deployments

Greater flexibility – Kyndryl offers a variety of options
based on business needs and goals spanning design,planning, implementation, and managed services
Cloud-like billing – Customers only pay for what they
consume, while benefitting from increased scalability
and business agility
Faster time to value – Cloud automation and Kyndryl
managed services enable customers to refocus teamresources on innovation instead of maintenance, while
also seeing accelerated resource deployment

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Greater control – Customers have granular control overtheir infrastructure and data, allowing support overstrict data sovereignty and compliance regulations

Why Kyndryl and Microsoft?
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl is a $19 billion company with skilled professionals

We have decades of experience working with customers

operating in over 60 countries. We design, build, manage andto deliver enterprise-grade workload analysis, migration,

modernize mission-critical technology systems that the world

implementation, and managed services for the mostdepends on everyday.

complex workloads.

Providing undisputed leadership
6.1M mainframe

300K network

installed MIPs

devices managed

67K+ VMware

14K+ SAP

3.5+ exabytes ofsystems managed

instances managed

client data backed

5,200+ WAN

3.5M LANdevices managed

ports managed

up annually

Azure Advanced Specialization

Empowering thousands of customers→ Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure→ SAP on Microsoft Azure→ Analytics on Microsoft Azure→ Microsoft Azure VMware Solution> 4,000
Global customers→ Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop

75%. . . of the Fortune
100 and morethan half of theFortune 500

Solution Partner Designations→ Solutions Partner for Infrastructure (Azure)→ Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Azure)→ Solutions Partner for Digital & App
Innovation (Azure)

20,000+→ Solutions Partner for Modern Work

Microsoft Certifications→ Solutions Partner for Security

Kyndryl and Microsoft Advantage
Kyndryl and Microsoft provide the services and solutions tomeet customers wherever they are on their cloud journey: onpremise, across multiple clouds, or on the edge. With our joint
expertise, we work with customers to manage complexity andmodernize their operations for rapid business outcomes. We
bring together deep design, delivery, management, and cloudtechnology expertise, supported by an expansive ecosystem,
to unlock our customer’s potential for long term business impact.

Next steps
Learn more at the Kyndryl and Microsoft alliance page.
Or visit kyndryl.com.

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