Industry analysts predict that, over the next decade, the IT industry will begin rebuilding its data management systems to bring data to the core of the enterprise, thereby facilitating the transformation to truly information-driven business. However, companies must take extraordinary measures to ensure their most valuable and continually growing asset -- data -- is well managed and continually available throughout this transformation. Businesses face the daunting challenges of system reliability and availability, fast recovery from any changes or scheduled downtime, data security, scalability and interoperability, and realizing lower total cost of ownership.