This has resulted in the unique service called ILMAS (Information Lifecycle Management Services).

The objective is to provide a ready to use solution to measure, analyze and report on typical ILM issues such as storage costs, storage usage (i.e. split by organizational units, locations, users etc.), forecasting / budgeting (future storage needs), type of usage, archiving and compliance (i.e. are rules and policies followed).

ILMAS can be used by management and employees at different organizational levels from different organizational units depending on the defined objectives and needs of the company. ILMAS is delivered with a number of pre-defined standard reports (dynamic reporting allowing drill-down into an issue), and the client can choose to add customized reports. ILMAS allows comparison with other companies using ILMAS on an anonymized basis. This is truly unique in the market today, and gives ILMAS users great benchmarking possibilities without additional cost.

What you cannot measure, you cannot manage……

• With ILMAS you get a factual basis for your ILM related decisions.
• With ILMAS you get an easy to use reporting and analysis environment for ILM issues
• You can get ILMAS up and running in a matter of 2-3 weeks, with minimal effort
• You have access to ILM Advisory services, which base themselves on facts
• The ILMAS reports can be customized to reflect your organization
• As the ILMAS scanning of file servers, is non-intrusive, you can potentially monitor hosting partner(s) and forecast storage need
• The business case to subscribe to ILMAS and take informed decisions on ILM is easy, in relation to the overall storage costs in most companies