High-Profile ILM Project: Information Lifecycle Management ...

High-Profile ILM Project: United States Postal Service Awards EMC Five Year Contract: EMC to Address USPS' Business Continuity and Data Protection Requirements Through An Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Strategy ...

An ILM information lifecycle management project at USPS is key to driving operational efficiency and effectiveness in the administration of 650 Terabytes of storage (EMC infrastructure). Project management services will come from EMC to create this high-availability, secure, and efficient process for the management of information over its lifecycle ...

... "Through this agreement EMC Consulting will work with USPS to conduct a solutions assessment, and provide project management and design and implementation services. Additionally, the USPS will use EMC ControlCenter® to monitor and manage its extensive storage environment consisting of EMC Symmetrix® and EMC CLARiiON® networked storage products for its storage area network (SAN), EMC Centera™ for content addressed storage (CAS), and EMC Celerra® network attached storage (NAS). " ...

Since 1775, the Postal Service has connected friends, families, neighbors and businesses by mail. It is an independent federal agency that visits 142 million homes and businesses every day and is the only service provider delivering to every address in the nation. The Postal Service receives no taxpayer dollars for routine operations, but derives its operating revenues solely from the sale of postage, products and services. With annual revenues of more than $69 billion, it is the world's leading provider of mailing and delivery services, offering some of the most affordable postage rates in the world. The Postal Service delivers more than 46 percent of the world's mail volume—some 206 billion letters, advertisements, periodicals and packages a year—and serves seven million customers each day at its 37,000 retail locations nationwide.

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world leader in products, services and solutions for information storage and management that help organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle.

Additonal references on ILM:

Via Computerworld, The new buzzwords: Information lifecycle management, Steve Duplessie, Nancy Marrone, and Steve Kenniston write:

... "What's important to remember is that ILM is not a technology - it is a combination of processes and technologies that determines how data flows through an environment. By doing so, it helps end users manage data from the moment it is created to the time it is no longer needed. " ...

Via SNIA, The ILM Initiative (ILMI):

... "ILMI was created by SNIA’s Data Management Forum (DMF) to allow industry leaders and participants to come together into a community to focus on unifying, defining, implementing, and teaching the world about our vision for ILM and its impact on information and storage management. The ILMI operates as an online virtual community, sharing work efforts, training programs and outreach services such as research, whitepapers and training, and educational courses. " ...

Via StorageTek, : Information lifecycle management vision whitepaper:

... "Information lifecycle management (ILM) is a sustainable storage strategy that balances the cost of storing and managing information with its business value. An advanced state of information lifecycle management encompasses a storage management world where business information objects are managed automatically, based on their business value. Fully mature information lifecycle management may result in business performance benefi ts such as increasing revenue opportunities, reducing costs and driving competitive advantage. " ...