by Angela Guess

According to a new press release, “Pivotal and Cognizant today announced a new joint initiative designed to accelerate the adoption of cloud applications and software platforms at enterprise scale. The combination of Cognizant’s application engineering expertise and industry knowledge, together with Pivotal Cloud Foundry®, will enable large businesses to rapidly deploy critical cloud-based applications and infrastructure. Building on a collaboration that began in 2015 to modernize software platforms for many of the world’s best-known brands, Cognizant and Pivotal are deepening their relationship and investing significant resources to help enterprise clients build and operate cloud applications and services at scale. Advantages of building and running applications in the cloud include increased automation, efficiency, agility, security, resiliency and lower costs.”

The release goes on, “In expanding their strategic alliance, Cognizant will license technologies from Pivotal and gain access to unique resources associated with Pivotal’s Platform Acceleration Lab. Cognizant will also train a significant number of consultants and customers on Pivotal’s leading cloud-native re-platforming approach. Cognizant’s global Digital Business capabilities will be integrated with Pivotal’s market-leading software development methodology, enabling clients to accelerate their digital transformation journey with rapid application portfolio migration and cloud-native platform development at scale.”

Read more at PR Newswire.

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