Most enterprises with mainframes are examining their environments in response to various business challenges. Many have adopted a “right application on the right platform” model. Every platform has capabilities and attributes that make them “best for purpose” for some applications. Digital transformation is difficult, and the risk of failure is very high because it involves much more than just the technology. In nearly all cases, work processes and even the culture in the business must change.

The IBM i platform retains its premier position as proven and reliable hosting options for many mission critical applications and workloads, and are at the core of a successful cloud transformation journey. Mainframes support the same open tools and languages other platforms can, as well as traditional native tools that have made mainframes the backbone of the world’s economy.

IBM i can be integrated using industry standard DevOps processes. When combined with other platforms, IBM i is often the right platform for these applications as part of a robust hybrid cloud strategy typically at a lower cost, with less complexity and a smaller carbon footprint.

As a full-service provider and integrator, Kyndryl can provide you with IBM i partitions in a secured shared environment that include managed services provided by our delivery centers.

To respond to your growing infrastructure needs, the power of IBM i is now delivered in a cloud model through the Kyndryl Managed Extended Cloud IaaS for IBM i (C4i) offering. It helps provide you with a multi-tenant, scalable, security-rich, and fully managed IBM i environment, delivered through an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud consumption model. This solution helps you support current and new workloads with an agile, configurable, managed infrastructure featuring some of the latest hardware and software and the ability to scale as needed. Kyndryl Managed Extended Cloud IaaS for IBM i (C4i) also supports high availability and security requirements with a carefully designed solution that has security and availability features built in from the data center to the hardware.