White Papers

White Papers

Your executive team has just announced that they are giving up the lease on the four floors in this building the end of next year and moving to new offices in an existing building that are going to be refitted for your company. Your Vice President has asked you to propose whether it would be better to move the data center to the new office space or somewhere else. In either case, the executive team wants to know how you would move the data center, how long it would take, and what impact it will have on the users. She also wants to know how much it would cost.

Of course, this is not a problem, as you are going to draw on your experience of the many times you and the team have been called upon to move a data center. Wait, have you and your team ever moved a data center? Not likely.
In 2002, a team from IBM interviewed a number of CIOs at a conference and asked them why they were keeping so much data spinning and backing it up each weekend even though the data is no longer accessed. The consistent answer amazed the IBM team.  They were told that the data was being kept, “just in case” it was needed in the future.  It was this phrase, just in case, that set the IBM team thinking about a new class of data, JIC data.

This white paper was published in January 2005.   With the explosion of regulation and the lower cost of storage, there is more JIC data out there today than ever before.  While the products discussed in this white paper are long gone, the architecture and total cost of ownership concepts are more important today than they were years ago.
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