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    Top benefits of archiving. Is archiving part of your strategy ?

    I have worked for so many vendors servicing some of the who's who in the financial industry and now servicing the retail industry. One of the application usage patterns I have seen most of the institutions use is that when there is a 'new product' they start using, they usually keep their legacy product around for 'safety' and 'emotional' reasons.

     

    There usually is not enough of a push from the top down to get rid of legacy applications in a project based manner. What usually happens is that after years of evolution of the business and technology within the enterprise, lots of these 'ghost' applications remain in the enterprise. One enterprise initiative which can help in 'decommissioning' these ghost applications is archiving. 

     

    The following are the benefits of archiving :

    Top Business Benefits
    - Manage archive data life cycle based on pre-defined policies
    - Provide comprehensive access to the archived data through a common viewer and/or application viewer
    - Supports your company's compliance efforts  and preserve company’s knowledge
    - Increase efficiencies in Records Management processes

    Top IT Benefits
    - Reduce performance degradation. Periodically remove "excess" data from an application
    - Keep the old applications data around and throw away the infrequently used application. This will reduce licensing costs
    - Store data by leveraging appropriate and cost effective storage technologies

     


    Do you have archiving as part of your enterprise IT strategy ?
    Tags » technology
    • 19 April 2010
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