IBM vs KD

International Business Machines Corporation

International Business Machines Corporation provides integrated solutions and services worldwide. Its Cloud & Cognitive Software segment offers software for vertical and domain-specific solutions in various application areas; and customer information control system and storage, and analytics and integration software solutions to support client mission on-premise workloads in banking, airline, and retail industries. It also offers middleware and data platform software, including Red Hat that enables the operation of clients' hybrid multi-cloud environments; and Cloud Paks, WebSphere distributed, and analytics platform software, such as DB2 distributed, information integration, and enterprise content management, as well as IoT, Blockchain and AI/Watson platforms. The company's Global Business Services segment offers business consulting services; system integration, application management, maintenance, and support services for packaged software; and finance, procurement, talent and engagement, and industry-specific business process outsourcing services. Its Global Technology Services segment provides IT infrastructure and platform services; and project, managed, outsourcing, and cloud-delivered services for enterprise IT infrastructure environments; and IT infrastructure support services. The company's Systems segment offers servers for businesses, cloud service providers, and scientific computing organizations; data storage products and solutions; and z/OS, an enterprise operating system, as well as Linux. Its Global Financing segment provides lease, installment payment, loan financing, short-term working capital financing, and remanufacturing and remarketing services. The company has a collaboration alliance with GK Software SE to enhance retail innovation and customer omnichannel experience with hybrid cloud technology. The company was formerly known as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Co. The company was incorporated in 1911 and is headquartered in Armonk, New York.

Kyndryl Holdings Inc.

Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. designs, builds, manages, and modernizes information systems worldwide. It offers a range of services to manage, secure, and optimize performance for SAP and Oracle application workloads on Amazon AWS, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure; application management project-based services; managed mobility, workplace support, workplace virtualization, and workplace collaboration services; and multi-cloud management, managed infrastructure as a service solution, and cloud migration services. The company also provides infrastructure as a service (IaaS), managed extended cloud IaaS for IBM Z, and multi-cloud deployment services; data protection and recovery services, including backup as a service, disaster recovery as a service, cyber resilience, IT resilience orchestration, data center, and security and resiliency consulting services; network consulting services, which include strategy, assessment planning, and design services aligned with IT and application needs; and consulting services for software-defined networking (SDN), software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN), Internet of Things, and network infrastructure and application optimization. In addition, it offers software-defined networking services that help enterprise customers to build highly programmable network fabrics for the SD-WAN, data centers and cloud, and branch networks and local area networks architectures; and managed network services. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is headquartered in New York, New York. Kyndryl Holdings, Inc. operates independently of International Business Machines Corporation as of November 3, 2021.