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EMC SourceOne: Not Integrated, Not One-Source
EMC announced three products on April 2, but they’re not integrated.  The analysts clearly pointed that out.  In addition to the Email Management product, there is SourceOne Discovery Manager, which is an add-on (read: extra $$$) to the Email Management product for discovery and legal holds on email archives, and SourceOne Discovery Collector.   The latter product comes from EMC partner, StoredIQ, and EMC is selling the stripped out software under their brand.  EMC acknowledges that SourceOne Discovery Collector and SourceOne Discovery Manager are separate products and says that they “wouldn't be surprised to see them much more tightly integrated," over time.  Wouldn’t be surprised?  They are acknowledging that this release really isn’t one-source—like I said last week, it's more like “PromiseOne”.  EMC plans to upgrade SourceOne Email Management over the next 12 to 18 months to handle content from different applications.  That’s quite a wide timeframe and even when archiving capabilities for other content types are added, without integration of the product family, it won’t really be one source.What is integrated and one-source?  HP Integrated Archive Platform (IAP).  HP IAP is comprehensive, centrally-managed, supported by one vendor, and already handles multiple content types.  HP IAP enables customers to archive, capture, secure, protect, and centrally manage both structured and unstructured content (emails, files, XML, business records).  HP already allows this content to be exposed for e-discovery and internal audits.  Also, HP IAP is already integrated with third party software for legal discovery, whereas EMC is just announcing this.  Regardless of the size or distribution of the HP IAP configuration, HP enables centralized management of the entire system through one interface, simplifying management and reducing complexity.
Posted 04-07-2009 3:21 AM by Lisa Dali

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