Aside from employees, information is the most important corporate asset. Design documents, customer information, inventory reports, and manufacturing data are just a few of the key information sources that are critical to a company’s success. Businesses today are scrambling for new ways to mine their vast storehouses of knowledge to get the upper hand in a highly competitive business climate. Most of that knowledge is stored as ones and zeros across hundreds or thousands of disks, optical media devices, enterprise RAID arrays, and storage appliances spread throughout the enterprise.