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Jeskell, Inc. Opens IBM Data Retention Center of Competence

Posted on: Thursday, 4 August 2005, 21:00 CDT

Jeskell, Inc. a top tier IBM Premier Business Partner, today announced the addition of an IBM Data Retention Center of Competence to its award-winning, $2.5M TotalSolution Center. The purpose is to help companies manage the growing need for long-term data retention and deal with related government regulations.

"As companies move to comply with corporate policies and existing regulations, new mandates are emerging and businesses are struggling to manage their data efficiently," said Alan Stuart, Chief Strategist for Data Retention Solutions, IBM Risk and Compliance Council. "Compliance can mean confusion, but every organization has to weave it into the fabric of their business operations. Through these Data Retention Centers of Competence, IBM gives selected Business Partners, like Jeskell, the tools they need to help clients obtain an integrated view of their processes, organization, technology, and controls across all industries."

The new center allows Jeskell to offer clients:

-- Demonstration and Proof of Concept capabilities

-- Technical design, planning, configuration and implementation

-- Competitive skills and knowledge tools

-- ILM Services Methodology

Jeskell will also deploy IBM's competitive total cost of ownership (TCO) tool to compare various compliance and data retention alternatives as a way of mapping Jeskell solutions and services to the IBM Risk and Compliance Framework, which can help customers better determine IT requirements based on the compliance mandates of various industries.

The tool models customer environments, illustrates data growth over the life of the data, and provides comparative TCO for alternative solutions. Also included are common variable, like storage administration, that CIO's and IT leaders normally use in TCO evaluations.

"We can now give clients the latest tools, from both IBM and 'best of breed' ISV's," says Pip Smith, Jeskell Senior Director Commercial Sales. "This will help them design and implement comprehensive data management strategies and, possibly, lower IT infrastructure and management costs."

One of the first products available through the Jeskell Competency Center is the IBM TotalStorage DR550, a system designed to provide a central point of control for managing data that helps customers manage long-term data retention and address compliance requirements.

About Jeskell

Established in 1991, Jeskell is an IBM Premier Business Partner focused exclusively on delivering IT solutions -- based on IBM products and services -- to commercial enterprises, educational institutions, and government organizations nationwide. The company is one of only a few IBM partners fully certified for all IBM platforms, from mainframes to UNIX servers to high-end Intel-based servers. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Jeskell has offices across the US, is regularly in the top 10 percent of all IBM business partners, and consistently ranks among the leaders in IBM customer satisfaction surveys (94%.in the latest survey). The company can be contacted at 408-744-0102 or 877-537-5355. Web address: www.jeskell.com.

IBM is a registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both.

Note: IBM and Jeskell customers are responsible for ensuring their own compliance with legal requirements. It is the customer's sole responsibility to obtain advice of competent legal counsel as to the identification and interpretation of any relevant laws and regulatory requirements that may affect the customer's business and any actions the customer may need to take to comply with such laws. Neither IBM nor Jeskell provides legal advice or represents or warrants that its services or products will ensure that the customer is in compliance with any law.

Source: Business Wire

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