Microsoft's .NET Server gaining storage capabiliti
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Microsoft Corp. early next year will add storage capabilities to .Net Server 2003, but vendors are already beginning to line up to exploit the new services. The Redmond, Wash., company last week unveiled VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) for volume snapshotting and VDS (Virtual Disk Services) for disk/array management. The pair should help storage hardware and software makers and business applications vendors speed product development by allowing integration with Microsoft products without custom code.
End-user file restoration capabilities, code-named TimeWarp, are included under a Shadow Copy administration tab as well as in a Previous Versions tab in the Windows XP interface, company officials said at the Microsoft Exchange Conference, in Anaheim, Calif.