Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a provider of IT infrastructure services, announced that it has achieved Cisco Global Gold Integrator status, the highest level available and a testament to Kyndryl’s ability to deliver and support advanced solutions for joint customers worldwide.
This partner status entitles Kyndryl to Gold-level benefits and incentives, as well as ensuring customers that Kyndryl’s expert resources and skilled practitioners are available in Cisco-supported geographies. Kyndryl’s Global Gold status also recognizes her ability to sell, deliver, and support Cisco solutions globally, as well as to showcase Cisco solutions to customers at global Cisco Experience Centers.
“As we expand our relationship with Cisco, we are excited to reach the Global Gold Partner status, which validates and extends our ability to collaborate at scale and deliver the highest level of joint support and benefits to global customers,” said Jeff Gatz, Director, Global Cisco Alliance at Kyndryl. “By demonstrating a level of excellence in providing managed services backed by Cisco Powered Solutions, Kyndryl can better ensure its ability to deliver best of breed 5G networking solutions and other innovative solutions that meet customer needs and requirements.”
Kyndryl’s engineers, architects, and sales teams have demonstrated significant knowledge and expertise across a broad portfolio of Cisco technology, software, and services to become a Cisco Global Gold partner. To achieve this level, Kyndryl has also demonstrated its ability to meet Cisco performance thresholds, global, regional, and local competencies, support centers and solutions, hybrid IT offerings, and customer satisfaction.
Kyndryl and Cisco recently announced a collaboration to assist customers in designing, building, managing, and modernizing mission-critical systems. The companies are working on private cloud services, network and edge computing, software defined networking (SDN) solutions, and multi-network wide area network (WAN) offerings to enable digital modernization and cloud acceleration through differentiated on-premises or edge solutions, as well as fully managed end-to-end cloud services.
“We are delighted that Kyndryl has joined a very select group of Cisco partners who have invested in and achieved Global Gold status. To accomplish this status in the short period of time that Kyndryl has existed requires extraordinary dedication,” said Nick Holden, VP, Cisco Global Strategic Partners and Co-sell. “We appreciate their partnership investment in Cisco and are excited about growing our joint business together in critical global markets and architectures as well as innovating in new business models and solutions.”