Medical device manufacturers have a tremendous opportunity to improve patient health care and boost the productivity of nurses and physicians with innovative products based on the latest microcontrollers and embedded processors. These technologies are a source of great excitement, offering full multipurpose computing capability and significant storage capacity with low power requirements and cost. Data management is an important component of these mission-critical devices, which demand increasingly scalable storage that is safe and reliable. Selecting the best strategy for data management is a fundamental challenge of product development that requires both expertise and capable tools.