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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I break down how Kyndryl and Google Cloud are teaming up to bring the power of GenAI to mainframe modernization.
Highlights
00:06 — Kyndryl and Google Cloud have expanded their existing partnership to introduce the benefits of GenAI to mainframe applications and data. By combining Kyndryl’s expertise in mainframes with Google Cloud’s GenAI capabilities, the two companies aim to offer customers an advanced approach to modernizing mainframe applications.
00:48 — Nirav Mehta, senior director of cloud infrastructure solutions at Google Cloud, said: “Google’s Gemini models and related tools . . . Combined with Kyndryl’s longstanding experience with mainframes, our mutual customers will have the expertise and leading technology to successfully modernize mainframe applications faster and with more sustainable code.”
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01:17 — Mainframes are in many ways the lifeblood of a company’s IT infrastructure. What stands out about the partnership announcement here is the emphasis on ROI and the tangible benefits that the integration of GenAI brings to the modernization process.
01:42 — With AI technologies being integrated across the company’s software landscape, the idea of investing significantly in these technologies for core infrastructure may seem somewhat abstract to many business leaders. A results-driven approach like this will encourage business leaders to look at mainframe modernization and the benefits that GenAI can bring to it.
