Always On Application Consulting

Always On by Kyndryl is a specialized consultancy and managed services program designed to modernize mission-critical workloads while ensuring zero downtime and unmatched reliability.

Everything breaks. We plan on it.

Always On is a holistic cloud reliability approach. It begins at the infrastructure, progresses to the data, shapes application design, and extends to the people and the culture. Always On leverages proven methods innovated over the last 25 years, limiting downtime to just 7 minutes for the services under our management. Such transformation requires re-thinking "reliability" and "resiliency" from an end-to-end perspective.

Customer Challenges

The challenge remains: when mission-critical workloads are modernized to the cloud, it is also necessary to adapt and modernize how to meet their demanding nonfunctional requirements, such as reliability, scalability, and observability, as well as those of their dependencies. The key driving problem statements while transitioning to the cloud include:

• Enterprises simply aren’t trusting public cloud companies with critical workloads.
• 60% of enterprises use lift-and-shift as their preferred approach to move applications to the cloud.
• Moving an application “as is” to a resilient cloud does not make it resilient.
• Cloud outage root causes, frequencies, and implications are typically unknown or not transparent.
• Infrastructure is no longer the main cause of impactful outages.
• Mission-critical applications typically consist of hundreds of dependencies and distributed systems, some of which are more complex than others.
• SRE operates mission-critical workloads, requiring end-to-end understanding of application behavior to ensure service reliability.
• Designing without continuous testing is hoping, and hoping is not a strategy.

Solution Overview

Kyndryl's professional services enable customers to leverage Microsoft Azure by designing and implementing cloud-native solutions that maximize scalability, resiliency, and observability. Our Always On approach helps customers migrate mission-critical workloads to Azure, ensuring seamless adoption of Azure's advanced capabilities while maintaining operational excellence. From initial migration planning to optimizing Azure environments, we empower customers to achieve success in the cloud.

Kyndryl Always On Rapid Assessment Consultation

A 6 to 8-week engagement comprises the following stages:

• Informative Workshops
• Always On Discovery & Assessment Sessions
• Co-Creation Recommendations & Target Architectures
• Always On Summary & Playbook

Customer Business Outcomes

By architecting, co-creating, and implementing failure-resistant infrastructures together, we can achieve zero-downtime for unplanned and planned outages.

• Customer Satisfaction: An Always On service ensures that customers can access business services at any time, leading to greater satisfaction and loyalty.
• Revenue Generation: An Always On service is critical to generating revenue since any downtime can result in lost sales and a damaged reputation.
• Risk Management: An Always On service can help mitigate risks associated with cyberattacks, system failures, or other emergencies that can impact business operations.

Deliverables

• Macro next-gen end-to-end architecture based on co-creation against ‘Always On’ principles and methods.
• Recommended Infrastructure updates for Always On multi-hybrid cloud architecture.
• Application and Data Pattern recommendations for ‘Always On’.
• Recommended automation, orchestration, observability, and operational capabilities to manage Always On applications.

Check out our eBook report on Always On Center of Excellence.

Terms, conditions, duration, and pricing are custom to each engagement. Please contact us to discuss a solution to meet your business needs.