How The Modern CIO Grapples With Legacy IT
CIO, Wednesday, June 14,2023
Every IT leader wants to extract the maximum value from tech investments before retiring them, but that's not always possible.
For Jo Abernathy, CIO at Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC), it was time to just walk away from the healthcare company's aging IBM Db2 databases running on AIX.
'We decided to prioritize the elimination of some pervasive technologies that have become too expensive relative to comparable products, and where support was lacking,' she said. Db2 has been expensive to license. Also, identity and access management has been problematic, and support for AIX today is a specialized skill set. Most importantly, they needed good support. 'We haven't gotten that,' she says. 'We needed to do something different.'