Kyndryl Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. have joined forces to provide managed edge-to-cloud services for multinational customers.

The two major companies announced an alliance on Monday to develop and deliver LTE and private 5G wireless services. The alliance between the firms is designed to provide customers with an ability to enhance the integration of private 5G and Wi-Fi networks with expanded connectivity across campuses, industrial locations and public transportation sectors.

“We’re bringing out a unified SIM service that has global reach, that can flip between different carriers in many countries around the world based on the performance or the cost structure that our enterprise customers are trying to drive,” said Paul Savill (pictured), global practice leader of networking and edge compute at Kyndryl. “Once you produce something, you could attach a SIM to it and track it as it moves out of the environment, out of the factory to anywhere that it moves around the world.”

Savill spoke with theCUBE Research analyst John Furrier at MWC Barcelona, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed the latest news and how Kyndryl is pursuing new edge-to-cloud and private 5G opportunities. (* Disclosure below.)

Kyndryl Bridge helps customers leverage AIOps

The alliance between Kyndryl, a global IT infrastructure services provider, and HPE includes an opportunity for companies to leverage Kyndryl Bridge, an open-integration technology services platform that can facilitate actionable insights for networks. Customers can automate IT infrastructure through the use of AIOps to lessen the risk of network downtime and gain a better understanding of operational performance.

“There’s a tremendous amount of information that’s created that our customers are not mining,” Savill said. “Kyndryl Bridge is able to pull all of that information together and put AI operations on top of it to allow our customers to get much better insight as to what’s going on and how they can optimize their infrastructure.”

The joint announcement highlights continuing enterprise interest in solutions that can leverage AI for meaningful business results. As AI processing moves to the edge, companies are looking for ways to manage that critical infrastructure.

“We’re developing an intellectual property around the ability to manage AIs that are sitting on the edge and police the communication with those AIs,” Savill noted. “You can think of it almost like a firewall that fronts an AI, that acts as a gatekeeper as to what information it’s able to communicate with the AI in that private wireless environment.”

Private 5G, a major area of interest at last year’s MWC, has gained traction with multinational firms seeking flexibility in the deployment of edge-to-cloud environments. Security and performance factors are often key determinants in private 5G adoption, according to Savill.

“We may go into a customer environment and say: ‘Hey, Wi-Fi works perfectly well for your situation,'” he said. “But what we’re seeing is that as more and more of these environments become very security sensitive, as they become more performance sensitive, these private 5G implementations fit the bill more often.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of MWC Barcelona:

(* Disclosure: Kyndryl Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Kyndryl nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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