Persistent and Kong partner to support enterprise AI deployment

Persistent Systems and Kong have announced a strategic partnership aimed at helping enterprises deploy and manage AI systems securely across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Under the collaboration, Persistent will serve as Kong’s global systems integration partner, combining its engineering and enterprise modernisation capabilities with Kong’s API and AI connectivity platform. The companies said the partnership is designed to help organisations establish a unified control layer for governing APIs, data pipelines and AI services as enterprises move AI projects from experimentation into production environments.

The firms said enterprises increasingly face challenges managing fragmented AI and API ecosystems, particularly as models, agents and data systems become more interconnected. The partnership aims to address these issues by enabling organisations to modernise legacy API environments, strengthen governance frameworks and reduce operational complexity while supporting high-performance AI workloads.

The combined offering will also support deployment of generative AI and agentic AI workflows, including architectures based on the Model Context Protocol. The companies said the platform includes capabilities such as centralised access management, policy-driven safeguards, observability tools and protection for personally identifiable information.

Persistent said the partnership aligns with its broader AI-first and platform-driven strategy focused on accelerating enterprise AI adoption. By integrating Kong’s AI Gateway technology with Persistent’s GenAI Hub and engineering services, the companies aim to help enterprises move toward scalable, production-grade AI systems with stronger governance and operational oversight.