HP, Cap Gemini Partner on ILM

To help enterprises understand and implement information life cycle management technologies, Hewlett-Packard Co. has extended its partnership with Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group.

Customers of both companies will benefit, as HP can learn from Cap Gemini’s business process and vertical market expertise, and Cap Gemini will get 100 of its storage architects trained on HP products, officials said Thursday.

ILM is the process of managing data from its creation to its obsolescence, based on business needs. HP and most other major storage vendors have relevant technology now, but admit that ILM won’t be fully realized until the second half of the decade.

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