1. A data management system, comprising: a host driver associated with each of a set of data sources, the host driver monitoring and capturing application events and generating a continuous application-aware, data stream; a set of nodes that share a distributed data storage, the nodes receiving and storing, as data objects, the continuous application-aware data streams generated by the host drivers, wherein the stored data objects comprise a distributed data object store; and a display interface having a time control that enables specification of a past time and display of a representation of the distributed data object store, or a given portion thereof, as it existed at the past time.