Case Study: Kyndryl achieves 90% energy savings and 10x encryption capacity with HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 Switch Series

Rethinking the power and impact of the data center

Kyndryl, the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, faced rapidly growing customer data volumes, rising energy and space costs, and complex multi‑cloud, multi‑vendor operations that strained OpEx and security management. To support a global peering platform and deliver low‑latency access to hyperscalers, the company needed a future‑ready data center architecture that could scale encrypted traffic, simplify operations, and cut power and footprint.

Kyndryl rolled out HPE Aruba Networking CX 10000 switches with AMD Pensando DPUs as the backbone of its NextGen Global Network Peering Platform, delivering 400G+ IPsec per switch plus inline L4 firewalling, DDoS protection, and micro‑segmentation. The upgrade increased encrypted capacity tenfold, cut power consumption by ~90%, shrank space needs by 20x, reduced network security infrastructure by up to 66%, and improved performance, scalability, and sustainability for customers.

Kyndryl

Markus Voegele

Infrastructure Cloud Architect