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IT infrastructure services provider Kyndryl and Legal & General (L&G), leading financial services group and major global investor, have announced they will extend their partnership to accelerate L&Gs technology transformation.

In an announcement, L&G said it had engaged Kyndryl to transition the hosting of its IT systems to a new data centre, reducing technical debt, simplifying architecture, accelerating cloud transformation, and consuming services in a more carbon-efficient way. The new seven-year agreement will enable L&G to scale its operations to support its growth ambitions, and gain greater technical and commercial flexibility. Joining the project as suppliers are Microsoft and Dell Technologies, bringing market leading capabilities to support L&G.

We see this as a strategic opportunity for Kyndryl and L&G to build on our partnership, leveraging Kyndryls deep expertise and experience in providing secure, compliant and resilient compute, mainframe and cloud transformation services, alongside their knowledge of Legal & General, commented Mark Hall, Group Chief Technology Officer, L&G.. Kyndryl has taken a strong one-team ethos to the programme, underpinned by transparency and a great affinity to L&Gs unique culture and purpose.

In addition to L&Gs existing use of Public Cloud services, as part of the programme, Kyndryl will implement a new on-premises Microsoft Azure hybrid cloud platform from Dell powered by Azure Stack HCI, closely coupled with the zCloud mainframe, helping to mitigate any potential latency constraints and providing a building block for further public cloud migrations.

We are helping L&G accelerate the modernisation and simplification of their IT estate, generate cost efficiencies and reduce carbon emissions through a migration to Azure Stack HCI at Kyndryls new strategic data centre. The deal also includes mainframe optimisation projects, staff augmentation and the implementation of Kyndryl Bridge, commented Joe Taylor, Managing Partner, Kyndryl. Stronger together and collaborating as one team, we will bring the very best talent to restlessly innovate and accelerate L&Gs IT strategy.

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Kyndryl accelerating L&G's cloud transformation - Technology Magazine