What’s new – January 2026

The January 2026 release includes:

Disk-to-guest mapping for Power VMs

The Storage section of the Hardware page now includes SCSI Serial No. (for all Power VMs) and Guest OS Location (for IBM i VMs) for each disk attached to the VM.

You can now identify at a glance which virtual disk corresponds to a device inside the guest operating system (AIX, IBM i, and Linux). This new visibility helps ensure you’re working on the correct disk when performing maintenance tasks such as resizing or deleting a disk. This reduces risk, increases confidence, and streamlines storage operations for Power workloads.

For more details, see:

• Hardware settings for AIX and Linux on Power VMs
• Hardware settings for IBM i VMs

New Kyndryl Cloud Uplift data center

Kyndryl Cloud Uplift has expanded our offering in Canada with the following new data center:

• CA-Toronto-M-1 (tom1r1)

For specific details about capbilities in the new region, see Kyndryl Cloud Uplift service limits.

CA-Toronto-M-1

Critical notification contact

You can now add an optional critical notification contact email address for the person Kyndryl Cloud Uplift should contact about system maintenance or critical activity events. Critical notification contact.

Skytap Cloud has become Kyndryl Cloud Uplift

Beginning in 2026, Skytap has become Kyndryl Cloud Uplift. Kyndryl acquired Skytap in 2024 and integrated its capabilities under the Cloud Uplift brand. You’ll continue to use the same platform and features that are now backed by Kyndryl expertise.

With Kyndryl Cloud Uplift, you can enhance traditional applications to extract more value from your data with Azure services—including Azure Synapse, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) and Azure SQL—and more easily integrate traditional and Azure native applications.

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