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Elevance Health’s bottom-up modernization leverages Red Hat/IBM combo

The world’s future-forward companies share one understanding: the unavoidable need to digitize with purposive business transformation strategies.

Different industries have varying transformation needs, and health insurance service provider Elevance Health Inc. (formerly Anthem Inc.) has opted for a purpose-driven approach enabled by IBM Corp. and Red Hat Inc.

“When we looked at digital experiences as we are transformed, the big challenge we faced had with our core systems,” said Reddi Gudla (pictured, left), staff vice president of digital engineering at Elevance. “We needed to modernize and recognized the need to digitize our core applications. To me, the biggest pain point is developing a strategy to deliver better digital experiences.”

Gudla; John Granger (middle), senior vice president of IBM Consulting at IBM; and Matt Hicks (right), president and chief executive officer of Red Hat Inc., spoke with theCUBE industry analyst John Furrier at Red Hat Summit, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed Elevance’s transformation journey and how IBM and Red Hat helped. (* Disclosure below.)

Bringing tailored environments to crucial institutions

Organizations operating in sensitive niches, such as military/defense, healthcare and finance, can’t simply hop on mass-market public cloud infrastructures, mainly due to concerns, particularly about security. For such mission-critical operations, the IT estate needs to spread across a hybrid architecture to harness the merits of the constituent private, on-premises, public and multicloud environments, according to Granger.

IBM has partnered with Red Hat to deliver the latter’s architecture configured to customer requirements, and to great results, Granger added.

“With the combination of Kubernetes and Linux, Red Hat brings that fabric enabling you to build your applications once, deploy them anywhere and skill your people once in this single hybrid cloud architecture and then use them anywhere,” he said. “We’ve built this big Red Hat practice, and we’ve got some great client examples, such as the U.S. Department of Education.”

The key reason why the collaboration with IBM has worked so well lies in the company’s technical expertise and ability to adapt it to client needs, Hicks added.

“When you look at any large transformation journey, you start off knowing the current state,” he said. “You also need to know where you’re going and the technologies and skillsets you need to make it happen. It’s also important to find the technology of partners to build an ecosystem to help support the transformation journey.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of Red Hat Summit:

(* Disclosure: IBM Corp. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither IBM nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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