This document discusses application decommissioning and using InfoArchive for archiving structured and unstructured data from legacy systems. It outlines factors driving the need for archiving like compliance, mobility, and governance. InfoArchive can archive data from applications being decommissioned or consolidated for cost savings, risk reduction, and compliance. It supports archiving databases, content, emails and can integrate with DPAD storage platforms.

1. InfoArchive Overview: Application Decommissioning
The Unified Approach to Enterprise Archiving for Structured Data & Unstructured
Content
Jonathan P. Simpson
Manager, Sigma Business Solutions
Late 2014

2. Factors Driving the Evolution of Archiving
Overcome adoption challenges
• Redesign the experience for non-technical users
• Mobile access and rapid search
Build governance into common processes
• Life-Cycle management across the business lifecycle of information
• Make compliance an outcome of good business
• Automate capture of corporate content, reducing burden on end users
Enhance repository offerings
• Enhanced lifecycle management capabilities
• Mobile interfaces
• Enhanced search, discovery, and analytics
• Connectors for broad sources of data and emerging sources of content
Cheryl McKinnon, Principal Analyst June 2014

8. Decommissioning Drivers
Information from legacy systems (structured / unstructured) can be archived and made
accessible to the business.
• Application Rationalization
• Data Center Consolidation / Migration
• Reduce Complexity and costs of running legacy or duplication systems (resulting from
M&A)
• Reduce risk of failure of existing systems
• Retain information for future business mining / usage
• Need to ensure compliance of information
• Support e-discovery initiatives
• Adopting modern applications e.g. new SAP projects (retire legacy ERP system)

9. EMC InfoArchive: Qualifiers for Decommissioning
What to Look For
Consolidation events
• Merger, acquisition, or business shutdowns
• Decommission applications
• Consolidate or virtualize data centres
Application stress
• Slow application response times due to data
overload
Compliance sensitivity
• Alternative Investment Fund Managers
Directive (AIFMD), Europe
• Basel III, International
• Dodd-Frank, U.S. and International
• Volcker Rule, U.S. and International
Intellectual Property Concerns
• Litigation, infringement, M&A, ongoing
development
What to Avoid
• Complete focus on unstructured archiving - no
element of structured data
• No archiving strategy: Require only occasional
archiving, possibly for historical reasons
• Lack significant compliance or regulatory
pressures / data lake conversations
• Need to archive email only:
• SourceOne is the better choice
• Need to archive SAP only:
• Document-based solution is the better choice

10. Storage Platform Options

11. DPAD & InfoArchive Alignment
• InfoArchive extends EMC archiving capability by enabling support for
application decommissioning and application archiving of databases
and content.
• Through the combination of SourceOne and InfoArchive, EMC
customers are able to satisfy their full range of enterprise archiving
needs.
• InfoArchive and SourceOne offer complementary capabilities and
support EMC DPAD archive storage platforms.
DPAD: Data Protection and Availability Division

12. InfoArchive: Key Takeaways
Archive any data type
• Structured application data
• Unstructured content
One Product
• Single modular product
• Licensed by volume of data archived
Two Use Cases
• Application decommissioning
• Active application archiving
Four Archiving Strategies
• Table extract
• Data record
• Unstructured data
• Hybrid record

13. Thank you.
Jonathan P. Simpson!