Kyndryl Services for Microsoft® Azure VMware Solutions:
Assessment, migration, modernization, and management
Customer challenges
Organizations that move their VMware workloads to thecloud are looking to modernize their infrastructure, optimize
IT infrastructure environments, reduce costs, and realize
greater scalability. Yet customers can face challenges anddelays in their improvement efforts around infrastructure
modernization. These challenges include:→ Lack of in-house skills to migrate and maintain acloud-based environment→ Long project timelines and potential business disruptions
during cloud migration→ Concerns about maintaining compliance, security, and highavailability and disaster recovery requirements in thecloud environment

Kyndryl services for AVS are designed to help organizations
reuse existing skills and resources to speed application andinfrastructure modernization through the move to cloud.
Our capabilities enable customers to:→ Identify the right workloads and use cases for AVS→ Design, deploy, and configure the appropriate AVS solution→ Migrate existing workloads to AVS→ Modernize their application ecosystem with Azure
cloud-native services→ Manage their key workloads on AVS going forward

Customer benefits
A key benefit of moving to AVS is the near-frictionlessmigration of VMware workloads to cloud, with a path to future
modernization using Azure services. Customers can continue

Solution highlights

to use existing investments in VMware tools, skills, and teams

Kyndryl™ provides end-to-end Microsoft® Azure® VMware®

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leveraging the best practices of Microsoft Cloud Adoption
Framework (CAF), AVS provides a VMware environment forcustomers on Azure, built on proven VMware technology
and tools.

in the new Azure cloud environment. Customers are able to:
Cost-effectively comply with regulatory requirements bydeploying their disaster recovery site in an OpEx model
Modernize simple or complex workloads through an
expedited path to cloud
Rapidly expand capacity to scale up applications using
VMware on Azure

Why Kyndryl and Microsoft?
About Kyndryl
Kyndryl is the world’s largest provider of IT infrastructure

we’re building on our foundation of excellence by bringing

services, serving thousands of enterprise customers in morein the right partners, investing in our business, and working

than 60 countries. As a focused, independent company,side by side with our customers to unlock their potential.

Providing undisputed leadership
6.2M mainframe

5,200+ WAN

15K+ Oracle and SAP

installed MIPS

devices managed

instances managed

576 exabytes of customer

270K network

3.5M LAN

data backed up annuallydevices managed

ports managed

Microsoft Advanced specialization

Empowering thousands of enterprise customers, including:→ Kubernetes on Microsoft Azure→ SAP on Microsoft Azure→ Analytics on Microsoft Azure→ Microsoft Azure VMware Solution

60%→ Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktopof the Fortune Global 100 and morethan half of the Fortune Global 500→ Microsoft Low Code Application Development
Solutions Partner designations→ Solutions Partner for Infrastructure (Azure)→ Solutions Partner for Data & AI (Azure)→ Solutions Partner for Digital & App
Innovation (Azure)→ Solutions Partner for Modern Work

25,000+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: on
premises, across multiple clouds, or on the edge. With ourjoint expertise, we work with customers to manage complexity
and modernize their operations for rapid business outcomes.
We bring together deep design, delivery, management, andcloud technology expertise, supported by an expansive
ecosystem, to unlock our customers’ potential for long-termbusiness impact.

Next steps
Learn more about the Kyndryl and Microsoft alliance, or visit
us at kyndryl.com.

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