ERGO – ’ DIGITAL IT ’ 27 This mentality has been vital to Digital IT ’ s key focus when considering and developing ways to drive ERGO ’ s digital revolution . To facilitate a smooth transition from legacy platforms to modern solutions , IT has created an application programming interface ( API ) factory to make the back end less dependent on old tech and drive it towards the target architecture . Amidst this change , the foundations have been laid for flexibility in the future . With a security driven cloud strategy that is closely aligned with compliance to GDPR and consumer expectations of data
protection , ERGO Digital IT has used Kubernetes software to run containers within the system . “ Kubernetes keeps a lot of our workload portable , creating silos where we can reassign content relatively easily from place to place ,” Lapierre says . “ If we decide to switch between providers in the future , that will be easily done . It also helps us to stay elastic between cloud and on-premise solutions .” In itself , these actions unlock enormous opportunities for improved operations . ERGO Digital IT has devised its own distributed data hub where its data sets are combined to
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