Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) recently announced its collaboration with Kyndryl with the aim to elevate its IT and security transformation journey across HMSI’s manufacturing plants.
The company’s renewed alliance with Kyndryl will improve infrastructure manageability and uptime through increased automation and enhance the company’s cybersecurity and resiliency.
The new partnership will also aim to integrate an on-demand Disaster Recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) set-up for minimal outage and production loss during a crisis impacting HMSI’s primary data centre.
Speaking on the association, Atsushi Ogata – Managing Director, President and CEO of Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India, said, “Moving forward, the new synergy will enable us with better business availability and operations predictability while infusing a more agile IT environment that serves our customers and partners better,”
Sharing his thoughts on the partnership, Lingraju Sawkar, President, Kyndryl India, said, “In an increasingly competitive ecosystem staying ahead of the curve and anticipating business and operational challenges is paramount. Kyndryl’s proven expertise in infrastructure management, automation, and cloud transformation, coupled with a deep understanding of HMSI’s critical operations, allows us to anticipate and structure a resilient and agile framework for the future,”
During a disaster, Kyndryl’s Cloud Resiliency Orchestration tool will bring HMSI’s primary data centre to a fully operational state in a matter of seconds, and its resiliency architecture will span seismic zones for added flexibility to systems during a customer demand surge.
Additionally, Kyndryl will enable automation of HMSI’s delivery and IT framework to address process and compliance challenges that come with IT sprawl. This integration will provide a single automated executive dashboard to monitor ongoing IT infrastructure systems, as well as health checks such as patching, backup status and provisioning.