Archive Hosting

Instantaneous access to your archive system as if it were still on location — maintained by HP experts in a secure data center.

Why archive systems stay online

Many organizations must legally retain electronic archives that remain quickly accessible. However, maintaining legacy hardware and software for these non-mission-critical systems is expensive—and converting historical data into a new SQL database where all business logic and reporting must be re-engineered is even more costly.

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Issues businesses encounter keeping archive systems

Basic OS knowledge loss

A company may need to train new IT staff on an ‘old’ operating system after the person who knew it retires: HP3000 backup and SLT/CSLT creation, HP9000 backup and Ignite tape/image creation, changing IP addresses, DNS and email, user and password management, printer administration, and hundreds of other items needed to keep the system running smoothly.

Changing security concerns

A company may be obligated to maintain security standards across all IT infrastructure including archive systems. Even when not in production, archive data may still fall under regulatory requirements — non-encrypted communications such as Telnet, NS/VT and FTP are common examples. Password rotation, disabling unused users, additional hardware or software for compliance and secure disposal of disk drives all need support.

System and application knowledge

What does each application do? Which jobs are needed to run daily, weekly, monthly and yearly tasks? We document and operate these so the knowledge does not leave with a single person.

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