NCAOC
North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts winds down mainframe and moves to hybrid cloud
Anthony Whitmore explains the two key priorities for the NCAOC as it decommissions its mainframe and scales up its hybrid cloud network
WRITTEN BY : DOMINIC ELLIS
PRODUCED BY : MIKE SADR
Anthony Whitmore has lived a unique ‘ double life ’ at North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts ( NCAOC ), and the Chief Technology Officer is now tasked with managing two divergent priorities in 2021 .
Having worked at NCAOC for 32 years , he left in 2017 , only to come out of retirement and be re-appointed CTO , as NCAOC made a strategic decision to outsource application development . With this second tenure , IT stakes have been raised . As a statewide 100- county migration to the cloud gets underway , mainframe decommissioning will begin .
“ We must continue to manage this legacy mainframe over the next three years as we build out more counties , every few months , to our new case management system ,” Whitmore explains . “ We ’ re going to be managing two business continuity efforts , one gradually decommissioning and the cloud gradually increasing .”
By winding down the mainframe , NCAOC benefits from cost avoidance on its current infrastructure which can be applied to
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