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Windows Storage Server
Windows Storage Server is a scalable, branch-ready platform for network-attached storage that offers excellent price performance value, enhanced management and superior reliability to organizations of all sizes.
Based on the Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 platform, it provides a fast, reliable, and scalable platform for Network Attached Storage (NAS).
The flexible design of Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 delivers excellent price performance value and intuitive management. Organizations of all sizes can create effective NAS solutions that can adapt to and solve the simplest or most complex storage need. Moreover, Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 comes in a variety of different configurations from OEMs to meet different organizations’ needs.
Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 is built on the proven Windows Server™ 2003 family code base with all of its superior security, stability and management advantages, and is Microsoft’s third generation NAS product.
Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 adds new search capabilities, simplified setup and storage management, extensibility, and is specially tuned to provide optimal NAS performance.
Single Instance Storage
Single Instance Storage (SIS) recovers disk space by reducing the amount of redundant data stored on a server, by identifying identical files, storing a single copy of the file in a central repository and replacing the files with pointers to the file in the SIS common store.
SIS works automatically without any end-user involvement. The administrator can enable SIS on a per volume basis, and for best results the administrator should use a backup application that supports SIS.
Search Enhancements
Indexing Service extracts the information from a set of documents and organizes it in a way that makes it quick and easy to access that information through the Search function for computers running Windows 2000 or Windows XP. This information can include text from within a document (its contents), and the characteristics and parameters of the document (its properties), such as the author's name.
Windows SharePoint® Services
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services is a powerful Web-based team collaboration environment that is included in Windows Storage Server 2003 R2. Windows SharePoint Services provides an integrated portfolio of collaboration and communication services designed to connect people, information, processes, and system both within and beyond the organizational firewalls.
Efficient Storage Management
Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 includes new tools designed to provide a centralized view of storage; simplified storage planning, provisioning and maintenance; and improved monitoring and reporting. These benefits enable administrators to more efficiently
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manage storage across IT resources and optimize storage space on those resources.
Distributed File System
The Distributed File System (DFS) solution in Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 helps administrators make files available to more users on a number of distributed servers without increasing administrative complexity all while maintaining the increased security of Windows Server 2003 SP1. The DFS solution in Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 helps to address these administrative challenges by providing two technologies: DFS namespaces and DFS replication, that, used together, provide simplified, fault-tolerant access to files, load sharing, and WAN-friendly replication.
DFS replication, the successor to File Replication Service (FRS), is a new state-based, multi-master replication engine that supports replication scheduling and bandwidth throttling. DFS replication uses a new compression algorithm known as Remote Differential Compression (RDC). RDC is a WAN-enabled compression technology that efficiently updates files over limited bandwidth networks by replicating only the changes needed to ensure global file consistency.
Predictable and Easy to Adopt
Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 was built on the efficient, reliable code base of the Windows Server 2003 family. Since it shares the same code base, there is no need for separate application compatibility testing, as all storage applications tested for Windows Server 2003 will function with Windows Storage Server 2003 R2. Plus, antivirus and backup applications that work with Windows Server 2003 operating systems will work with Windows Storage Server 2003 R2.
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