Since the amount of corporate data is doubling every six months, the IT challenge is to be able to manage an ever-increasing amount of physical storage while maintaining flat headcount - in other words, no increase in the number of storage managers and administrators. One way to maintain flat headcount is through the use of policy-based, process-driven storage management software. This white paper details the use of automated, policy-based management in the CreekPath AIM(TM) (Application Intelligent Management) Suite of storage management software solutions. (June 2002)