This document discusses the importance for CIOs to streamline their IT infrastructure while focusing on upgrading key enterprise applications. It notes that application upgrades can disrupt business processes if not well planned. It also discusses the importance of consolidating both applications and IT infrastructure. The document then introduces the Solix Application Retirement Appliance, which allows companies to retire legacy applications and data in a simple six step process, while maintaining access to the legacy data and reducing storage needs.

1. ENTERPRISE-ROUND-UP
and Data Operations were two separate worlds.
However, with increased focus on improved
operational efficiencies with reduced IT budgets,
the CIO has to optimise his IT infrastructure that
hinge on three principles; Virtualisation,
Consolidation and Rationalisation. There's a
Virtualisation of Servers, Storage and Desktops.
There's a Consolidation of Data Centres and
Applications. And last, there's a Rationalisation
of Application Portfolio and Skills.
What is so unique about Solix Application
Retirement Appliance which makes it a
compelling business buy?
Solix heritage comes from Database Archiving
Application Retirement. and that continues to be the cashcow in our
Raghu Kodali, VP, Product Marketing, product portfolio. We added Test Data
Management, Data Masking and Application
Solix Technologies in an interaction Retirement within the Solix EDMS Suite, which
provides customers a single metadata-based
with Rahul Neel Mani. solution to cover Information Lifecycle
Management as well as Application Testing. For
FROM a CIO's perspective,how important most important issues, from a CIO's perspective, Application Retirement, in particular, we have
that must be incorporated in an upgrade plan are; added functionalities that are specific towards
is it to streamline the IT infrastructure while
migrating, retaining , compressing and querying
focusing on upgardation of key enterprise
Is the upgrade going to have an impact on any and reporting on legacy data while at the same
apps? How can CIO's do it without much
business process? time decommissioning the source applications
disruption in their business processes?
and the associated hardware and storage they
Is the upgrade going to have an impact on
Application vendors provide periodic upgrades to came from. In addition to Solix EDMS for
current IT resources?
their solutions which either provide better Application Retirement which is a software-only
technology or better function-alities or both and Is the upgrade going to have an impact on solutions, we have introduced Solix ExAPPS.
occasionally also remove certain known issues application performance with current Industry's first Application Retirement Appliance.
with prior versions.While it is important that
How Important is it for a CIO today to look How does it work? Please explain...
customers keep up-to-date with latest versions,
the upgrade process by itself can become quite at consolidation of both application and There are six simple steps:
ponder-ous and seriously impact internal business IT infrastructure?
Plug in the device and do the set-ups-takes no
processes if not well planned. The three Until recently, Application Management more than 30 minutes.
Point the browser to the first candidate
identified for application retirement
Global tracker Usage results of Migrate data from this application to Solix
social networking sites Secure Archive (there's an automatic 90%
compression) and add application context to
the legacy data
Social Networking sites reach a Ensure that the legacy data can be accessed
higher percentage of women without the lagacy application. Decommision
the legacy application and the associated
then men, with 75.8 percent Hardware.
of all women online visiting Build reporting tools that are required for this
legacy data
a social networking site in Build reporting tools that are required for this
May 2010versus 69.7 percent legacy data
Point the browser to the second candidate and
men repeat the process.infrastructure?
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