By CIO
Publication Date: 2025-12-16 20:05:00
CIOs and business leaders everywhere are striving to upgrade legacy technology to meet burgeoning demand for cloud services and artificial intelligence (AI).
But many are stymied by aging IT infrastructure and technical debt. CIOs spend an average of 70% of their IT budgets maintaining legacy systems, according to IBM research, leaving them little room to invest in the innovative solutions they need.
To ease the transition, IBM and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are together helping governments and industry IT leaders modernize infrastructure, applications, and business processes with AI-powered transformation. “IBM’s proprietary agentic AI framework for application migration and modernization embeds agentic AI into the way that IBM drives large-scale migrations to reduce risk and improve efficiency,” says Dan Kusel, global managing partner & general manager responsible for IBM Consulting’s Global AWS Practice.
“IBM works with AWS to leverage their agentic AI…
