One of the most basic things you can do with information is move it or copy it. It goes by many names: replication, backup, recovery, migration, cloning ... the list is endless. In the spirit of Eskimos having many words......EMC
In past posts, I floated the idea that many of us were in the process of becoming informationists rather than technologists. If you're interested, you can see the background here and here. One of the arguments behind this thought is......EMC