Kyndryl and VMware celebrated their respective spinoffs from IBM and Dell Technologies this week by joining forces to address app modernization and multicloud challenges.

Under the deal, Kyndryl will offer VMware’s broad portfolio of networking, security, and virtualization tools to help customers migrate workloads to the cloud and the edge.

“Through this important partnership, Kyndryl and VMware will help companies design and deploy mission-critical workloads that can modernize their applications and operations to reap the benefits of cloud and multicloud computing,” said Stephen Leonard, global alliances and partnerships lead at Kyndryl, in a statement.

Kyndryl emerged from the ashes of IBM Global Technology Services after IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced plans to spinoff the division late last year. The company joined the New York Stock Exchange earlier this month under the ticker KD, just weeks after VMware’s own spinoff from Dell Technologies.

While a relatively new name, Kyndryl boasts more than 4,600 clients, 90,000 employees, and an estimated $19 billion in annual revenue. In fact, VMware and Kyndryl have a long-standing relationship going back nearly 20 years, prior to their respective spinoffs this month.

Today’s deal renews Kyndryl's vows, and will see it tap VMware’s Tanzu and vSphere platforms to accelerate its multicloud ambitions.

The announcement comes a week after the newly independent Kyndryl announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft.

The move marked a change in philosophy which had long prioritized IBM’s own public cloud services. The companies plan to launch a series of new managed services designed to accelerate hybrid-cloud adoption, advance artificial intelligence, enhance cybersecurity resilience, and modernize enterprise IT operations.

Kyndryl is expected to announce more partnerships with major cloud and hyperscale partners over the next few months.

“We don’t think we’ve made any secret that we want to work with the other key hyperscalers,” Leonard told SDxCentral in an earlier interview.