Data Retention Strategy for Retiring Mainframes, OS, and Servers

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Mainframes, Operating Systems, and Servers

Platform decommissioning is a key step for modernization; but application data history presents a stumbling block. How do you move the entire weight of data and make it easy to access without compromising new platform efficiency?

Choosing a data retention strategy for hardware and software decommissioning

When switching operations to a new platform, businesses need to choose a path to preserving the data history for compliance, business continuity and insights for AI and data-driven decision making.

**Option A-**maintain the data on the old platform, preventing full retirement and budgeting for old and new systems side by side

**Option B-**migrate all of the data to the new platform, which will slow the migration timeline and potentially compromise operational efficiency and cost-effectiveness

Option C-orrect- archive data before platform shutdown in a lower-cost, accessible archive

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Benefits of an “Archive First” approach

All of your data is valuable, but not all of it needs to sit in your new platform. Choosing pre-modernization to retain inactive data in an accessible archive like DataNovata helps to:

  • Speed up timelines and lower costs of modernization
  • Allow new platforms to operate at optimal capacity
  • Manage compliance more easily with data that is organized, visible, and retrievable
  • Eliminate technical debt and reduce data application bloat

Gartner champions a proactive data archiving approach to platform modernization and names DataNovata as a trusted “archive first” solution.

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