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“No single vendor can provide all the elements of ILM” 

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Jean-Luc Chatelain helps craft HP's overall ILM strategy through customer interaction and by serving as an ILM ambassador to the other HP constituencies like IPG and HP Labs. His evangelization function involves numerous worldwide speaking engagements and also promotes HP's holistic approach to information assets management. Speaking to Rahul Gupta of CyberMedia News, Jean-Luc

Chatelain, ILM technical director and chief evangelist at HP, spoke about HP's ILM offerings vis-à-vis its competitors. 

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How do you differentiate your ILM offerings from others?



HP has built a comprehensive ILM portfolio spanning arrays, tape, magneto optical, NAS, archiving, data protection, and services as well as data and infrastructure management software. A key element of this portfolio is HP Storage Works Reference Information Systems Storage

(RISS), which is a highly adaptable object model disk-based solution. It is based on HP smart cell technology using the HP Storage Works Grid architecture. 

Jean-Luc Chatelain

But RISS does not support Web services and common Internet and network file systems, nor does it yet offer specialized support for vertical markets. 



RISS is scheduled to support common Internet file system and network file system in the first half of 2006. In addition, we have also publicly announced development for Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine
(DICOM) connectivity for picture archival communication system (PACS) vendors in the healthcare vertical. 

How does HP ILM help customers converting their corporate data with the help of

RISS?



We provide the ILM consulting expertise as well as ILM products to help customers implement an

ILM-managed environment. In addition, we utilize industry standard interfaces to seamlessly integrate with third party ILM

ERM, ECM, and data management applications. We also offer continuous data protection and migration capabilities for files, database rows and tables, and Exchange and Lotus Notes email environments

What's your take on EMC's ILM strategy? 



EMC has some good assets acquired via multiple acquisitions contributing to their market share. But it requires integration into the company. We believe that customers generally want choice as well as reliability. Further, we believe that no single vendor can provide all of the elements of

ILM. Remember, ILM is a strategy for customers not a single product-it's a combination of technology, processes and services. We use the experience we've gained with Microsoft Exchange (wherein HP has installed more than 14 mn MS-Exchange seats), SAP and Oracle (roughly half of the SAP installations and over a third of Oracle databases worldwide run on HP equipment) to help our customers achieve their strategic ILM goals. In addition, because a vast amount of data lives in the physical world, not a digital one, we believe that we have the competitive advantage in the real world requirements of information management offering customers the ability to capture, manage, retain and deliver information according to its business value.

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