Kyndryl (KD) said Thursday it has teamed up with Alphabet's (GOOGL, GOOG) Google Cloud to offer customers a new program combining mainframe modernization with generative artificial intelligence.

The program will help customers understand how to integrate or modernize their applications and data faster and guide them through a phased modernization approach, allowing them to make informed decisions about their mainframe workloads, Kyndryl said.

As part of its expanded partnership with Google, Kyndryl said it has been certified as a specialized partner for Google Cloud's AI and Gemini models.