The IT landscape of many companies has become complex and confusing over the years. Application Retirement offers a way out of this dilemma. This process is crucial for the modernization of your IT and can give your company an important competitive advantage.
Why application retirement is essential
In today's fast-paced digital world, outdated applications can quickly become a liability. They consume resources unnecessarily, slow down processes and increase the complexity of your IT landscape. Application Retirement is the solution to:
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Reduce costs
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Free up resources
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Reduce system complexity
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Modernize your IT infrastructure
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Securely comply with legal retention periods and automatically delete data after expiry
Overcoming the challenges
However, the path to successful application retirement is not without its hurdles. Key questions you should ask yourself:
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Data sovereignty: How do you retain full control over your data?
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Infrastructure utilization: How can you make optimal use of existing resources?
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Data access: How do you ensure that archived information is available at all times?
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Compliance: How do you ensure compliance with legal requirements for data retention and deletion?
Best practices for your application retirement
To overcome these challenges, you should take the following best practices to heart:
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Leverage your existing infrastructure
Integrate your retirement solution seamlessly into your existing database structure. This will help you avoid expensive new acquisitions and make optimum use of existing resources. -
Preserve your data sovereignty
Retain full control over your databases. Decide for yourself how and where your data is archived and managed. -
Rely on on-premise solutions
With an installation directly in your company environment, you retain full control over archiving and security. -
Archive efficiently
Choose a solution that enables compressed archiving of the entire database without archiving entire file systems. At the same time, access to all relevant information must be guaranteed. -
Fulfill legal requirements automatically
A modern retention solution should support you in consistently complying with legal retention periods - and enable automatic, audit-proof deletion of data once the deadline has expired.
The path to a lean IT future
With the right approach, application retirement becomes a springboard to an efficient, cost-effective and future-proof IT landscape. Modern solutions such as CHRONOS from CSP enable seamless and efficient retirement, where data sovereignty remains in your hands and legal requirements are fully taken into account.
Start modernizing your IT landscape now. The sooner you start, the sooner you will reap the benefits of a lean, efficient and legally compliant IT ecosystem.