Most enterprises with mainframes examine 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 complex, and the risk of failure is very high because it involves much more than technology. In nearly all cases, work processes and even the culture of the business must change.

The IBM i platform, with its proven and reliable hosting option for many mission-critical applications and workloads, retains its premier position. It is at the core of a successful cloud transformation journey, offering the same open tools and languages other platforms can use and 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 includes managed services our delivery centers offer, all at a cost-effective rate.

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 on Skytap 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 on Skytap also supports high availability and security requirements with a carefully designed solution with security and availability features built in from the data center to the hardware.