Time to Pull the Plug

The pitfalls of keeping old systems around “just in case” and the birth of zombie apps

Retiring Orphan Applications

How to retire ownerless applications in a controlled and compliant manner

Best Practice – Archive It All

Why archiving entire data sets is a best practice rather than trying to save a few pennies on data storage costs.

Changing the Paradigm

Imagine spending our time and money on building value, not cleaning up old messes …

Zombie Applications

“What is dead may never die” … the creation of zombie apps, and making sure you don’t end up holding the undead baby

Divorcing Your SaaS Vendor

The challenges of data governance when exiting from a SaaS contract

Why The IT Garbageman?

Who I am, and why I wanted to blog about IT garbage (hint … it’s all about data governance really!)