What is in store within 2021 technology roadmaps? A lot of end-of-life!!

Platform 3 Solutions keeps a pulse on the market based on client needs. It is also about the needs for business continuity, support and innovation. If the average organization spends 60%-70% of their total IT budget to maintain the status-quo, where is an opportunity to extract real value from that spend. That maintenance spend should be going back into R/D investment, quality support and timely patching of issues – but is sadly does not work that way in 2020 and beyond.

The desire to migrate, archive and remove from the data center inventory technology is a big conversation for organizations as 2021 planning is in full swing. To that end, let’s discuss technologies doing to end-of-primary-support or completely off extended support:

Hardware:

Intel stops shipping Itanium CPUs July 29, 2021 in supporting HPUX
SPARC T5-2 EOSL May 31, 2022
IBM Power 7 series December 31, 2020

Over 50 Power Servers on end of life chip sets

Operating Systems:

Centos 6 November 2020
Red Hat 7.6 extended support ends May 31, 2021)
IBM AIX 7.2 TL3 end of support Sept 31, 2021
Windows Server 2016 end of life January 11, 2022
Solaris 10 retirement January 2021

Screen Shot 2020-12-06 at 2.31.42 PM | Platform 3 Solutions — Red Hat roadmap

Databases:

SQLServer 2016 end of mainstream 7/13/2021
Oracle 12.1 end of extended support July 2021
Oracle 12.2 has limited error correction support through March 2022
Sybase ASE 15.7 and the entire product is dead in 2025
Informix 11.70 end of support Sept 30, 2020
IBM DB2 11.1 has support discontinued April 30, 2022

Content Management: ECM technologies are a culmination of everything listed above with millions-to-billions of business documents under management.

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 end of extended support October 13, 2020
SharePoint 2016 end mainstream support July 2021
OpenText Documentum 7.3 extended support December 2020
IBM Case manager 5.3.x end of support April 30, 2021

And ever vendor is wanting to have clients move to their cloud – under their control. “Vendor Lock-in” is the new business plan theme-of-the-day.

Platform 3 Solutions is here to help organizations understand their options. Organizations need to do more with less – and that includes finding those terabytes of tired data that can be deleted or archived for run out while also migrating the operational data and applications to a platform that takes advantage of more open innovation and cost 60-80% less.