NEW YORK and SUNNYVALE, March 27, 2025 — Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, today announced an expanded partnership with Google Cloud to leverage generative AI to help streamline and accelerate the modernisation of mainframe applications and data. As part of the partnership, Kyndryl has been certified as a specialised partner for Google Cloud’s AI and Gemini models.

The combination of Kyndryl’s deep mainframe expertise and skills with Google Cloud’s generative AI capabilities will provide customers with a trusted path to modernise their mainframe applications, increase agility and drive cloud-native innovation.

“Google’s Gemini models and related tools are bringing new levels of efficiency to mainframe modernisation efforts,” said Nirav Mehta, Senior Director of Cloud Infrastructure Solutions at Google Cloud. “Combined with Kyndryl’s long-standing experience with mainframes, our mutual customers will have the expertise and leading technology to successfully modernise mainframe applications faster and with more sustainable code.”

Kyndryl is partnering with Google Cloud to offer a new Mainframe Modernisation with Gen AI Accelerator Program to help qualified customers start their modernisation journey without upfront commitments and gain a clear understanding of how to integrate or modernise their applications and data faster and with tangible ROI. Following the assessment, customers receive a modernisation blueprint and plan. Kyndryl Consult experts will guide customers through a phased modernisation approach to demonstrate incremental value and allow them to make informed decisions about their mainframe workloads.

“Google Cloud delivers the scalability and cutting-edge AI-driven capabilities needed to power and transform modern businesses,” said Petra Goude, Global Practice Leader for Core Enterprise & zCloud at Kyndryl. “Through our collaboration, customers can unlock the full potential of their mainframe data, create AI-driven innovations and transform mainframe applications to modern cloud applications with lower risk and faster time to value.”

Kyndryl’s data democratisation capabilities combined with Google Cloud’s Mainframe Connector solution enable the integration and augmentation of mainframe data with Google Cloud’s BigQuery analytics platform. This integration helps customers unlock and leverage their data in new ways, including:

• Bringing mainframe data into Google Cloud BigQuery, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL and more to unlock its full potential.
• Building dynamic reports and dashboards to enhance decision-making with increased insights.
• Training AI models to create predictive and generative AI solutions, driving innovation and operational efficiency.

Kyndryl’s mainframe modernisation capabilities and Google Cloud’s suite of modernisation products, including Mainframe Assessment Tool (MAT), Dual Run, Mainframe Rewrite and Gemini models, enable the streamlined migration of mainframe workloads to the cloud. This comprehensive approach includes:

• Generative AI-driven code analysis and documentation of mainframe applications.
• Rewrite of mainframe applications to modern applications in Google Cloud built for the age of cloud computing.
• Creation of future-ready technology stacks optimised for Google Cloud.
• Testing, certification and de-risking of the modernisation project.

Kyndryl and Google Cloud are already delivering joint mainframe modernisation projects to customers across industries. For example, the companies partnered to enable mainframe modernisation at a major insurance provider, converting COBOL to Java and migrating its mainframe applications to Google Distributed Cloud. This allowed the customer to meet its digital transformation goals while addressing its mainframe skills shortage and data residency regulatory requirements.

According to Kyndryl’s 2024 Mainframe Modernisation Survey, 96% of organisations are migrating some mainframe workloads, on average 36%, to the cloud. Additionally, 86% of organisations are moving fast to adopt AI to accelerate mainframe modernisation. Almost half of respondents aim to use generative AI to unlock and transform critical mainframe data into actionable insights. Kyndryl and Google Cloud are already working together to help customers with their digital transformation and AI adoption efforts to future-proof their IT environment.

For more information about Kyndryl and Google Cloud’s alliance and mainframe modernisation initiatives, please visit: https://www.kyndryl.com/us/en/about-us/alliances/google-cloud.

About Kyndryl

Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, serving thousands of enterprise customers in more than 60 countries. The company designs, builds, manages and modernises the complex, mission-critical information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.