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The Archiving Imperative Sponsor: IBM, Featured Analyst Firm: Gartner Many organizations today find themselves literally drowning in a sea of information. Increased regulatory control and the risk of litigation both compound the problem - how do you retain the information that might be needed to manage risk while at the same time keep storage and management costs under control? The answer is archiving. Hear industry experts from featured analyst firm Gartner, Inc., and opinion leaders at IBM, discuss how to make information a strategic asset, and offer insight into the benefits and challenges of information lifecycle management, including key components like archiving and content management. TOPICS ADDRESSED: 1. How to close the gap between information growth and the capacity to manage it with Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) 2. How enterprise content management, archiving and retention solutions play essential roles in a comprehensive ILM strategy 3. How leading organizations are managing and leveraging information more effectively to create greater business value 4. How to overcome the barriers that prevent your company from getting to an Information On Demand environment Regulations, industry standards, and good corporate governance all demand that companies be accountable for producing business records, and that they know where documents are located and how they can be retrieved. > Corporate fines are being imposed for the improper management of paper and electronic records > The Sarbanes-Oxley Act is being strictly enforced > Enron-like scandals are drawing public attention to records management and compliance > And the Federal Rules of Civil Procedures, updated as of December 2006, further increase the organization’s accountability for knowing where documents are kept and being able to retrieve them. Watch this program now to hear more about these issues and guidance on how to address them. Go now. ********** About Carolyn DiCenzo Carolyn DiCenzo is a vice president in Gartner Research. Her research focus is storage management software with a focus on data protection and data life cycle management, including the tools used in e-mail compliance solutions. Ms. DiCenzo has worked extensively with software developers and business development managers within the software industry. Prior to joining Gartner, she was director of pricing at Sybase and a consultant for small and midsize high-technology companies in the Silicon Valley. Earlier, she spent time at Digital Equipment in marketing, sales, software services, software engineering and corporate pricing. About Laura Sanders Laura Sanders is responsible for the team that develops all of the Tivoli product line. Prior to this, Sanders was the Vice President of System Storage Products and Solutions, responsible for managing IBM's Storage portfolio including strategy, product management, and business development. About Cindy Grossman Cindy Grossman is responsible for all aspects of the Archiving and Tape storage business within IBM including profit and loss, product portfolio investments; go to market strategy and execution and customer support. Prior to her current assignment, Cindy was director of Marketing, Storage Systems where she was responsible for driving routes to market, channel enablement strategy and interlocks for all IBM storage products. About Jon Prial Jon Prial is responsible for sales, marketing and development of IBM’s ECM offerings. The ECM organization helps customers manage and take advantage of unstructured data, such as documents, forms, video and Web content. Prior to his current position, Mr. Prial led the worldwide marketing and business strategy for IBM’s Information Management division, where he drove the strategy for delivering information on demand through the integration of structured and unstructured information.
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