OMAHA, Neb. (April 24, 2024) – FNTS, a trusted managed services provider that specializes in providing advanced IT solutions for enterprises and highly regulated organizations, announced a new disaster recovery services agreement with Kyndryl (NYSE:KD), the world’s largest IT infrastructure service provider. The two companies have a longstanding relationship and have successfully collaborated to support customers for nearly three decades.
FNTS will augment Kyndryl’s comprehensive cyber resiliency services to a wide range of customers that desire to transform their resiliency program to an “always on” readiness. Through this agreement, Kyndryl customers can enhance their cyber and disaster recovery testing away from the traditional “schedule and test” approach to “test when needed” availability to respond to real-time threats or outages.
“FNTS has more than 29 years of industry-leading expertise and has a proven history of transforming legacy disaster recovery environments with flexible, scalable and customizable solutions that provide ongoing value and built-in security services to stay ahead of cyber threats, updates and data compliance regulations,” said Kim Whittaker, President of FNTS. “Our automated, rapid system recovery approach helps organizations across all industries to prevent downtime and disruption. We stay on top of software, back-end infrastructure complexities, security and compliance, giving enterprises peace of mind to seamlessly continue operations.”
Organizations that utilize these Disaster Recovery Services can choose between a self-serve model to a full-service continuum with the following benefits designed to quickly and effectively respond to an unexpected disaster or cyber event:
- Support for multiple operating systems and environments, including Mainframe, AIX, IBM i, Windows, Linux, Public Cloud and Private Cloud.
- Uninterrupted application access during crucial times of disruption.
- Unlimited data storage priced by the actual amount of storage used.
- Reserved capacity to ensure infrastructure is available for testing and recovery.
- Backup services that include the option for Immutable Backups for extra redundancy and resilience, in the event of ransomware attacks or other disruptions.
- U.S.-based operations and staff in some of the most secure, technically advanced
Tier III data centers in the country.
“We’re dedicated to helping customers navigate their ever-evolving cybersecurity challenges,” said Todd Scott, Senior Vice President and Head of Practices at Kyndryl US. “Teaming up with FNTS will allow us to further provide our customers with access to flexible, robust and security-rich infrastructure that supports their cybersecurity and cyber resilience needs and enables the uptime and availability of their most critical applications.”
“In today’s 24/7 business environment, having a comprehensive and dedicated disaster recovery environment is essential to guaranteeing critical data, software and applications are replicated and available in the event of an unexpected disruption,” said Whittaker.
This collaboration provides customers with a wide array of Disaster Recovery Services utilizing a next-generation method of automating and streamlining recovery – covering each aspect of planning, testing and management. To ensure overall business continuity within your organization, FNTS provides disaster recovery testing at a 100% success rate, in addition to ongoing reviews to ensure full data restoration.
For more information about FNTS and its disaster recovery services, please visit fnts.com.
For more information about Kyndryl’s cyber resilience services, please visit Kyndryl.com.
About FNTS
As a nationally recognized trusted advisor in managed IT services for close to 30 years, FNTS has a proven history of optimizing and modernizing mainframe environments, along with a wide range of operating systems including: AIX, IBM i, Windows, Linux, Public Cloud and Private Cloud. FNTS also has a passion for all things multi-cloud and provides flexible, industry-specific cloud solutions, with a continued focus on orchestrating agility, transparency and IT optimization for our customers, all while keeping cost containment top-of-mind. With an elevated security posture consisting of layered security solutions, FNTS specializes in partnering with customers in highly regulated and compliance-driven industries.
FNTS operates one of the most secure, technically advanced data centers in the United States, where the full scope of its operations is based. Headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, FNTS is a subsidiary of First National of Nebraska (FNNI). FNNI and its affiliates have $30 billion in assets and nearly 5,000 employee associates. For more information, visit www.fnts.com.
