This paper examines potential risks and costs that organizations face if they do not make the appropriate investments in hardware and software technologies to support their information retention strategies. The second part of the paper discusses how Hewlett Packard, buoyed by its recent acquisition of Tower Software, is fully capable of supporting customers' information retention strategies.

As one of the largest and most respected technology solution providers in the world, HP is certainly going to be around to support its information management and retention solutions. The paper describes HP's approach to building a scalable, unified archive and records management platform that can manage content from desktop, e-mail, database, and collaboration applications. The end result enables customers to facilitate compliance, records management, storage optimization, and/or electronic discovery initiatives.