It incorporates technologies to reduce the total cost of ownership, provide directory service, improve security and performance, and enhance scalability from a small business to a large enterprise network. With the broad scalability of Windows 2000, the dependency on the availability of information is even more intense for all critical operations of a company than ever before. IS organizations are required to support application servers that are accessed by remote employees, suppliers, and customers with stringent uptime requirements that have visibility at the highest levels of the company. The growth of e-business applications in Windows environments has only exponentially increased these stringent requirements. Database-aware backup solutions integrated with database management systems ensure transactionally consistent backup copies.
Data migration allows data to be moved while it is being used.
Additionally, monitoring technology provides an objective basis for making storage management policy decisions. Specific Backup Considerations Windows 2000 introduces several new features and architectural enhancements that affect how users protect, access, and manage their applications. Many of these features require direct changes to storage management applications and how they interact with the operating system. NTFS has a new on-disk file system structure featured in Windows 2000. This new structure is required to support many storage enhancements, including volume mount points, file system encryption, sparse files, and disk quotas.