Benefits

Remote Storage provides the following benefits to its users:

• A virtual expansion of local storage space using lower cost remote storage.
• Transparent automatic access to data in remote storage.
• Automation of the labor-intensive overhead associated with daily manual data management operations.
• Centralized sharing of remote storage for multiple volumes.
• Integration with the following features of the Windows 2000 operating system:
  • MMC interface
  • Windows 2000 Explorer
  • Windows 2000 Disk Management
  • Event logs
  • Windows 2000 Security
  • NTFS
  • Job Scheduler
  • Microsoft® Systems Management Server
  • Active Directory^™ directory service
  • Indexing Services

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