Kyndryl, Broadcom bet on VMware skills as private cloud demand returns
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Kyndryl is adding consulting, managed services and agentic AI guardrails to VCF, backed by a skills push covering several thousand of its own consultants. First published on Kyndryl and Broadcom expanded their VMware Cloud Foundation alliance last month as enterprises seek more control over where their data, technology and operations reside. The augmented deal comes as AI increases the speed and potential impact of security threats while sovereignty demands complicate decisions about where workloads should run. To manage those challenges, Kyndryl now brings consulting, managed services and agentic AI capabilities to VCF environments. The consultancy aims to deliver "cloud-like speed, cloud-like automation, cloud-like developer experience to a private and hybrid cloud environment," Giovanni Carraro, Kyndryl's global strategic alliances leader, told Channel Dive. Both Kyndryl and Broadcom said they intend to give customers this level of automation and developer experience while also ensuring that users have greater control over critical infrastructure. The move comes as enterprises demand more oversight and control of their cloud environments and operations than before. Compare that to about two years ago when sovereignty discussions centered primarily on data residency, driven in part by regulations such as GDPR, Carraro said. Now customers are also weighing technological...
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