“Digital transformation” can seem like a big, scary term to non-IT companies that are nonetheless compelled to utilize IT to stay relevant. Some may have memories of spending weeks and months setting up data centers, and the constant maintenance needed to keep them running. But times have changed, and IT companies are offering customers easy ways to go digital that border on instant gratification.

One company recently transformed its digital environment to optimal effect.

Invisible IT worker elves

The best part about digitization for companies like Wabash National Corp. is that IT vendors now have ways of delivering so much automated digital performance; where they used to need new IT hires, they can now rely on software.

Steve Bunch, Server and Storage manager at Wabash National, spoke to Stu Miniman (@stu), host of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during VMworld 2016. Speaking about his company’s choice to utilize Nutanix, Inc. to organize its growing data centers, he said, “Our IT team wasn’t growing at all, so we had to find a way to kind of do something different. Updating firmware on a SAN on the weekend probably isn’t the best use of your time,” he said.

Bunch advises other companies to “get your application teams involved in the migrations.”

Does IT enable digital transformation?

Sachin Chheda, director of Solutions Marketing at Nutanix, Inc., who also joined in on the interview, said Nutanix prides itself on its ability to make infrastructure invisible.

“You can actually do a test drive of our community edition in the cloud, so you really don’t even have to install anything,” he said. “And that’s very typical of customers nowadays where they want to know what does that mean from an operational perspective and then how does that affect their day two operations?” he said.

Chheda concluded the interview by saying he wants companies to see IT as “an enabler for the digital transformation.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the VMworld US.

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