Each business has its own reasons for coming to the cloud. For many, the benefits lie in scaling and automation. Unlike on-premises data centers, the cloud scales easily by simply buying more compute. Services in the cloud handle tasks across all the company’s data. One company taking advantage of these benefits is LogistiCare Solutions LLC, which partnered with information technology consulting firm Vizuri to execute the digital transformation.

To explain the company’s journey to the cloud and the critical evolution this move enabled, Michael Quintero, enterprise solutions architect at LogistiCare Solutions, and Joe Dickman, senior vice president at Vizuri, spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s mobile live-streaming studio, during the Red Hat Summit in Boston, Massachusetts. (*Disclosure below.)

The conversation centered on business needs, digital transformation and security.

A strategy to be flexible and dynamic

“Digital transformation is a business strategy, not a technology,” Quintero said. LogistiCare is the world’s largest provider of non-emergency medical transportation, and it wanted to keep hold of that position. To do so, they needed to be more flexible and dynamic. Red Hat, Inc. offered a stack that does everything LogistiCare needed to do and what they wanted for the future.

The non-emergency medical transportation business needed someone to help bring them to Red Hat and a scaling solution, so they brought in Vizuri to transform their organization. Vizuri started with a business process management solution, Dickman explained. From there, they worked on integration and the cloud. When LogistiCare saw the cost savings of the cloud, it abandoned its on-premises data centers to go cloud-native.

As a healthcare company, LogistiCare needed high-trust security. Being subject to audit, the business had to be above the line on every criteria. With Vizuri’s help, it prototyped and evaluated a security policy.

“We had Vizuri come to the table and help us understand just how secure we could be,” Quintero said.

Going to the cloud also allowed LogistiCare to preconfigure servers and workloads. By doing so, it could change and change often. This had a ripple effect through the company’s culture, Quintero explained. Not only did the move provide for agile software engineering, it also changed the company’s belief in what could be done.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s independent editorial coverage of Red Hat Summit 2017. (* Disclosure: Red Hat Inc. sponsors some Red Hat Summit segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE. Neither Red Hat nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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