Kyndryl and Aptiv Partner to Power Mission-Critical Systems Globally
Aptiv and Kyndryl partner to accelerate customer innovation in mission-critical environments by combining Wind River technologies with Kyndryl's managed services.
- 60+ countries
What Happened
Aptiv has selected Kyndryl to provide advisory, implementation, and managed service support for modernizing customer experience and product engineering. Kyndryl will deploy Aptiv's Wind River software as part of its solutions portfolio. The companies will collaborate on joint go-to-market initiatives and integrated offerings aimed at helping customers prepare for an edge AI-driven landscape while reducing deployment complexity and risk. This partnership brings together Wind River's private/sovereign cloud capabilities, real-time operating systems, and virtualization platforms with Kyndryl's expertise in advisory and managed services.
- Wind River Cloud Platform (private/sovereign cloud capabilities)
- eLxr Pro
- VxWorks
- Helix Virtualization Platform
“More organizations are moving critical workloads to the edge, where applications cannot fail. By partnering with Aptiv to leverage Wind River technologies, we are strengthening Kyndryl’s ability to deliver resilient, secure systems that can be deployed and managed at scale, while helping customers meet data sovereignty, regulatory and operational goals.”
“As industries are faced with an increasingly intelligent edge and growth of AI workloads, Wind River technologies deliver the scalable, secure, and efficient infrastructure that can meet complex demands of mission-critical environments today and into the future. Together with Kyndryl, we unlock that capability at scale.”
Why this matters
This collaboration helps organizations adopt edge computing for critical workloads with reduced complexity and risk. By combining Wind River's specialized software with Kyndryl's global services, customers can more easily deploy secure, scalable systems that meet data sovereignty and regulatory requirements. The partnership also expands the reach of Wind River products, benefiting industries that need high-performance, reliable edge infrastructure.
Terms in This Story
- mission-critical systems
- Systems whose failure would severely disrupt operations, safety, or security, requiring high reliability and uptime.
- edge AI
- Artificial intelligence processing that occurs on local devices (at the edge) rather than in centralized cloud servers, enabling real-time decision-making.
- data sovereignty
- The concept that data is subject to the laws and governance of the country where it is collected or stored, requiring local control.
- VxWorks
- A real-time operating system (RTOS) designed for embedded systems that require deterministic performance and high reliability.
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