Improving Business Continuity Using Windows Storage Server 2003

Businesses and organizations of all sizes increasingly depend on computerized data systems for their operations. Ensuring that these systems, and their stored data, keep operating is a critical part of business planning. Business continuance is the process of ensuring that critical data and systems remain available even if hardware, software, or environmental problems interrupt the primary servers' normal operation.

This paper describes some technologies and approaches for achieving business continuity within the Windows environment; specifically, by combining replication software and network attached storage (NAS) devices based on Windows Storage Server 2003, businesses can reliably safeguard their data while realizing cost and efficiency improvements in their storage management and provisioning.