Microsoft to unveil storage software
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Microsoft on Thursday will announce storage multipathing software for Windows 2000 and Windows .Net. Multipath input/output technology lets servers talk to storage devices across simultaneous access paths. An access path is a combination of a host-bus adapter and a logical unit number, but multipathing requires unique device identifiers besides bus addresses. "I think it's great. If you're going to have an enterprise-class server, you have to be able to have redundancy," said Nancy Marone, an industry analyst with Enterprise Storage Group Inc., in Milford, Mass. Microsoft has been trying to build its data center portfolio for storage for some time. The company launched its storage division in April and is revamping its file system for future versions of Windows.