Microsoft KB Archive/818762

= White Paper: Technical Overview of Windows Server 2003 Storage Management =

PSS ID Number: 818762

Article Last Modified on 12/19/2003

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 64-Bit Datacenter Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 64-Bit Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Web Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, Premium Edition
 * Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003, Standard Edition

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SUMMARY
As more information becomes available in digital format, information technology (IT) organizations face the challenge of ever-increasing data-management and data-storage issues. At the same time, employees and others must find and access the information they need. Disruptions to the availability of information, and obstacles to easily finding particular information, mean wasted time and productivity.

The following downloadable article contains a technical overview of key storage-management features in Windows Server 2003. This article includes scenarios that demonstrate how IT organizations can take advantage of this technology.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/docs/Entstorage.doc

Although the density of storage is increasing faster than Moore's Law, and storage hardware costs are falling rapidly, the ability of IT organizations and their users to effectively manage this data is not 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. Microsoft aims to make data storage so reliable, secure, and easy to manage that users hardly have to think about it. Together with its original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and independent software vendor (ISV) partners, Microsoft is delivering storage management solutions that range from data protection to network-attached storage (NAS) to multisite high availability.

Windows Server 2003 implements a set of enterprise-ready storage management features and improvements that permit storage managers to reduce their total life-cycle cost of storage by providing easier management, faster performance, greater reliability, and stronger security.

To view this white paper, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/storage.mspx

Topics That Are Included in This White Paper

 * 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

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