According to certain aspects, an information management system can include a client computing device residing in a primary storage subsystem configured to: identify a first application to archive to one or more secondary storage devices residing in a secondary storage subsystem, the first application being one of a plurality of applications installed on the client computing device; forward an executable instance of the first application to a first secondary storage computing device to copy the executable instance of the first application to the one or more secondary storage devices; and delete the first application from the one or more primary storage devices.