LIVE: March 4, 2026 | 1:00 PM ET

Private Cloud vs. Hyperscale:
What Worked for a Regulated Healthcare Organization

 

How a one-night migration freed the team to focus on strategic improvements, integrations, and AI.

For many regulated organizations, a straight lift-and-shift to hyperscale introduces more risk than it solves.

Join this on-the-record customer conversation with Key Benefit Administrators to hear how they weighed their options and chose a private cloud path.

Hear from Matt Schwark, VP of Information Technology, Key Benefit Administrators, and AJ Kuftic, Expedient’s Field CTO, as they walk through the choices, tradeoffs, and outcomes behind a one-night production migration.

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What we'll cover: 

  • The business drivers that forced a cloud decision: a corporate headquarters move, aging on-prem infrastructure, and the need for agility.

  • The evaluation process: a frank comparison of private cloud, hyperscale, and co-location for a VMware shop.

  • How the team used the migration as a live disaster recovery test to find and fix architectural gaps.

  • The story of the "one-night" production cutover and how the delivery teams worked together to solve challenges.

  • Post-migration outcomes: improved staff "quality of life," eliminating infrastructure firefighting, and creating time for strategic projects like automation, integrations, and AI.

Why attend: 

  • Hear a real-world story from a regulated healthcare organization that successfully navigated a complex migration.

  • Understand the practical tradeoffs between private cloud and hyperscale for legacy VMware environments.

  • Learn how a partner can act as a "force multiplier" for your team, de-risking the migration process.

  • Get actionable takeaways you can apply to your own cloud, DR, and modernization planning.

  • See real outcomes you can benchmark against: migration time, operational lift, and staff hours reclaimed.

Who should attend: 

  • CIOs, CTOs, and IT Directors

  • Infrastructure & Cloud Architects

  • Engineering & Ops Leaders

  • Anyone planning a data center exit, cloud migration, or DR initiative, especially in regulated industries.

 

Hear the unfiltered story and their migration playbook.