Kyndryl Expands Alliance with Broadcom to Drive Secure by Design Private Cloud for the AI Era

Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework, paired with Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation reinforces private cloud environments and addresses vulnerabilities at AI speed

Skills investment and the Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework will drive customer engagements

NEW YORK, Aug. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, today announced an expanded strategic alliance with Broadcom to deliver end-to-end consulting services for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), bringing cloud-like speed, automation and developer experience to private and hybrid cloud environments.

Under the expanded collaboration, Kyndryl and Broadcom are helping enterprises modernize, secure and scale mission-critical systems by building sovereign, AI-ready private clouds that reduce operational complexity, are secure by design and strengthen long-term performance. To support this joint effort, Kyndryl and Broadcom are investing in the skills development of several thousand certified Kyndryl consultants, architects, and delivery specialists to enable agentic workflows.

"Against the backdrop of rising sovereignty demands, enterprises are rationalizing their hybrid and private cloud environments, and they require a pragmatic, outcome-driven approach," said Giovanni Carraro, Global Strategic Alliances Leader at Kyndryl. "By expanding our partnership with Broadcom and investing in VCF skills, we will help customers build modern, resilient, private clouds that enable AI adoption, support data modernization, address the risk of AI-identified vulnerabilities and deliver real business value."

The announcement comes as enterprises confront a rapidly shifting landscape. AI is accelerating innovation, but it is also amplifying risk as Frontier AI models are collapsing zero-day exploits to just hours and posing challenges to regulatory compliance and operations for organizations running critical systems. Sovereignty rules are reshaping where autonomous agents discover and exploit vulnerabilities across application source code, containers, VMs and pipelines at machine speed, without conventional signatures. Modernizing IT infrastructures to defend against fast-moving adversaries requires a private cloud hardened with policy guardrails and secure golden paths before a workload is provisioned, not patched after the fact.

Through the expanded collaboration, Kyndryl provides end-to-end VCF and VMware Tanzu transformation capabilities across advisory and strategy, architecture and design, upgrade and modernization and secure Day-2 operations, spanning virtualized and containerized workloads, while enabling seamless integration with public cloud landing zones as workloads evolve. With deep industry knowledge across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, transportation, government and regulated industries, Kyndryl's modernization approach maximizes business impact along with technology transformation objectives.

"Our expanded relationship with Kyndryl helps ensure that our mutual customers have the expert guidance required to fully leverage VMware Cloud Foundation as a strategic private cloud platform," said Regan McGrath, President, Americas, Broadcom. "Kyndryl's global delivery capabilities and investment in certified talent provide enterprises with the foundation they need to drive agility, modernize applications and scale AI-driven innovation."

Kyndryl is also focused on helping mutual customers operationalize AI governance across VCF environments by applying the Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework and its policy as code capability to hold agents to approved, deterministic actions informed by business rules and regulatory requirements, so automation stays inside guardrails and drift is contained. This will ensure that AI agents act only within approved, deterministic guardrails shaped by each customer's business rules and regulatory requirements, containing drift while preserving flexibility across models, data and infrastructure.

Combining the VCF private cloud capabilities with Kyndryl's managed services unlocks the value of VCF, enhanced through industrialized operations, automation and AIOps-driven delivery. The result is a unified private cloud environment that runs virtual machine and containerized workloads, including AI inferencing, on a single scalable platform.  IT teams and platform engineers can deliver an agile and robust developer experience, while maintaining the security, control and sovereignty the business requires.

Additionally, Kyndryl's cyber recovery capability – built on VCF's isolated recovery environments (using VMware vDefend), immutable snapshots (using Advanced Cyber Compliance) and orchestrated runbooks (using VCF Automation/Operations) – restores critical operations rapidly and with verified integrity.

Kyndryl is a Pinnacle Partner in the Broadcom Advantage Partner Program and one of the world's largest providers of managed VMware assets. The company was recognized as Broadcom Mainframe Partner of the Year 2025 in South America and in Finland. Kyndryl's VMware services are bolstered by deep expertise and proficiency in the latest skills and technologies companies need to modernize VMware environments and adopt new VCF capabilities to enhance their VMware estate and achieve business objectives.

Learn about Kyndryl's alliance with Broadcom VMware.

About Kyndryl
Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is a leading provider of mission-critical enterprise technology services, offering advisory, implementation and managed service capabilities to thousands of customers in more than 60 countries. As the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider, the company designs, builds, manages and modernizes the complex information systems that the world depends on every day. For more information, visit www.kyndryl.com.

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