Patent ID: 8433675

Claim:
An outsourcing optimization method comprising: receiving, by a computing system, a data footprint associated with data, wherein said data footprint comprises a primary data section, a secondary data section, and an archive data section, wherein said computing system comprises a human resource model comprising administrative and operational costs associated with a process for maintaining said data, and wherein said maintaining said data is performed by an entity; associating, by said computing system, a plurality of data storage strategies with said primary data section, said secondary data section, and said archive data section; comparing, by said computing system, each data storage strategy of said plurality of data storage strategies to each other data storage strategy of said plurality of data storage strategies; executing, by a computer processor of said computing system, a data staging orchestrator software module with respect to said human resource model, said primary data section, said secondary data section, said archive data section, and results of said comparing each said data storage strategy to each said other data storage strategy; determining, by said computing system, a migration operation partitioned into three regions comprising a before migration region, a during migration operation, and an after migration operation; determining, by said computing system based on results of said executing said data staging orchestrator software module and said determining said migration operation, an optimal migration time, an optimal migration speed, and an optimal migration cost for managing storage for portions of said data and associated portions of said administrative and operational costs; executing, by said computing system, a risk modulation software module with respect to said optimal migration time, said optimal migration speed, and said optimal migration cost for said managing; and determining, by said computing system based on results of said executing said modulation software module, a risk associated with managing; calculating, by said computing system, a risk value (RF(M k ))=−(1+α M k )*VαR, wherein a comprises a risk factor of a migration option, wherein α M k =bytes_moved M k /total_bytes_on_source*Sys_Utilization M k , wherein Sys_Utilization comprises a system utilization when an action is invoked, and wherein VαR comprises a value at risk.