Application Retirement

Application retirement or decommissioning is the practice of shutting down redundant applications while retaining access to the data. Whether it’s due to mergers and acquisitions, upgrades and migrations, or just plain obsolescence, a large proportion of business applications in any datacenter are infrequently used and legacy.

Remove the challenges of application retirement

It would be great if companies could just switch off legacy applications and pull the plug on the hardware, but legacy data often has to be kept for regulatory or business reasons. The savings from shutting down legacy applications can be significant, but the challenges of application retirement are not trivial. Any application retirement initiative must ensure that legacy data is kept safe and secure while eliminating the risk and cost of accessing data when required.

Furthermore, at a time when companies are pursuing virtualization initiatives to reduce and improve the utilization of their costly infrastructure, application retirement should be considered the first step in the “rationalize before you virtualize” process.

The optimal destination for legacy data

RainStor was designed for the simple, low-cost, and accessible storage of inactive structured data, which makes it perfect for application retirement. RainStor is the optimal destination for data from legacy applications, ensuring data integrity while providing on-demand access without the need to restore legacy applications, platforms, or hardware.

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