DXC Technology Co. is one of the largest global integrators on the globe, with over 130,000 employees worldwide. The company helps companies worldwide run their mission-critical systems and operations all while modernizing IT, optimizing data architecture and ensuring security and scalability across all types of clouds. To achieve all of this, the company partnered with Red Hat.

“We have a very good relationship with Red Hat, extends more than 22 years,” said Dimitris Karabinis (pictured), senior director of global offerings and practices at DXC. “We’re a Red Hat premier partner, they’re one of our strategic partners, hundreds of certified engineers. We use the full suite of products as you would expect with the company our size, OpenShift, Red Hat Enterprise and Linux.”

Karabinis spoke with theCUBE industry analyst John Furrier at Red Hat Summit, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how DXC utilizes Red Hat, what sets the integrator apart from its competition, how artificial intelligence and automation will affect the future of cloud migrations and modernization and more. (* Disclosure below.)

Modernizing the world

One of the ways DXC is different than its competitors is its benefit of size and scalability, giving the company’s ability to solve challenges that other companies aren’t able to tackle. This is thanks to both the power of AI and DXC’s ability to help its clients withtheir long-term plans and their mainframe by asking the right questions.

“How are you treating your Edge networking? How are you managing your legacy operating systems? Is your environment secure? Full security practice? So, the fact that we can have all those conversations along with developed industry solutions that really help accelerate those business drivers you’re talking about really helps us stand out in the marketplace,” Karabinis said.

With automation gaining popularity and services such as Ansible enabling even easier AI deployment, the future can look tricky for companies trying to help others modernize as they gain complexity, but Karabinis is optimistic that the use of automation “extends beyond tooling.”

“It’s a mindset, it’s a development way of thinking. In the industry, when you look at IT, you look at network engineers, storage engineers, mainframe engineers, five years you’re going to have developers. Everything is going to be development-based,” Karabinis stated. “You’re not going to have tower-based engineers, and all that automation is just going to be code first from the start and it’ll be the way of the future.”

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

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

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