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Data Archiving and Application Retirement with InfoArchive continue to iver significant return on investment for organizations seeking to reduce IT costs, strengthen compliance, and enhance big data analytics. As we close out 2016, here’s a recap of the 10 most popular resources Flatirons d with the InfoArchive community during the

During the past few years, Flatirons has worked with a number of healthcare organizations to archive data from outdated accounting, human resources, and clinical systems to a modern and consolidated repository. Data archiving helps healthcare providers retire costly legacy systems, recoup budget, and improve their ability to comply with data

There’s no question that CIOs are recognizing the importance of archiving data from outdated applications and retiring, or decommissioning, legacy systems. Legacy applications are often low value to the business and bring significant cost reductions once retired. By archiving data from legacy systems, our customers are able to provide easier

One of the main drivers for Application Retirement, or Decommissioning, is cost take out—the reduction or elimination of expenses for maintaining outdated, unsupported legacy applications in read-only mode often due to regulatory requirements. Organizations decommission legacy applications to relieve themselves of the financial burden associated with aging systems, while migrating

On September 9, 2015, I was invited to present on an interactive roundtable conference call with EMC. The focus of the call was business challenges around application decommissioning and data archiving and how Flatirons is helping clients use EMC’s InfoArchive platform to address them. This is a summary of highlights from

For the second year in a row, EMC has been ranked as a “Visionary” on Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Structured Data Archiving and Application Retirement. This is a strong position, considering EMC’s InfoArchive was introduced less than two years ago. In fact, InfoArchive was named a “Trend-Setting Product of 2014”

Regulation as the Root of Improved Customer Service Since the 1990s, the Energy industry has been riding a complex wave of both regulation and deregulation. This complexity–along with constant change and unpredictability in the regulatory environment itself—continues to pose a great challenge for energy companies. On the regulatory side, the

In his blog “Think ‘Data Management,’ Not Just ‘Data Protection,’” Data Protection Analyst Jason Buffington provides sound advice to IT organizations whose primary storage is growing around 40% annually but whose IT budgets aren’t. That advice is to archive data. Buffington defines archiving this way: “Archiving is the intentional retention