Virtualization as an Archiving Technique

The pros and cons of virtualizing applications … and of disturbing the tombs of Egyptian Pharaohs!

Cost Containment Plans for Retiring Applications

How to identify and achieve savings earlier in the application retirement proces

Managing Data from a Retiring Application

Any time data needs to be archived there is a failure of data governance.

Running Out The Clock

When does it make sense to let a legacy application continue to run in the production landscape?

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

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