Technical Overview of Windows Server 2003 Storage Management
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Summary
As more information becomes available in digital format, IT organizations face the challenge of managing growing amounts of data and storage with the same or fewer resources. At the same time, employees and others need to find and access the information they need—disruptions to the availability of information, or simply the inability to find it, mean wasted time and productivity.
This downloadable article provides a technical overview of key storage management features in the Windows Server 2003 family and includes scenarios showing how IT organizations can take advantage of this technology.
Although the density of storage is increasing faster than Moore's Law, and storage hardware costs are falling rapidly, the ability for users to effectively use this data, and IT's ability to manage it, aren't keeping pace. In fact, the cost of storage management is increasing in many industries as the volume of data grows.
Microsoft is responding to this challenge by making storage a full member of the trustworthy computing infrastructure: reliable, secure, and easy to operate to the point that users hardly ever think about it. Together with its orginal equipment manufacturer (OEM) and independent software vendor (ISV) partners, Microsoft is delivering storage management solutions ranging from data protection to network-attached storage (NAS), to multi-site high availability.
The Windows Server 2003 family implements a set of enterprise-ready storage management features and improvements that allow storage managers to reduce their total life-cycle cost of storage by providing easier management, faster performance, greater reliability, and stronger security.
Included in This Document
| • | Introduction |
| • | Storage: What IT Organizations Demand |
| • | Windows 2000 Storage Features |
| • | Key Windows Server 2003 Features Customers Have Asked For |
| • | Windows Server 2003 Storage Subsystem Enhancements |
| • | New Storage Features in Windows Server |
| • | How Windows Server 2003 Helps: User Scenarios |
| • | Summary |
