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face for storing information coming from the Internet protocols. But
beyond this particular ability, Microsoft Exchange can leverage other fea-
tures of Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, the most significant of
which, for Microsoft Exchange deployments, are the clustering and storage
management services.
Although clustering technologies are available from non-Microsoft ven-
dors, such as VERITAS, Microsoft Exchange only supports the Microsoft
cluster services that ship with the standard edition of Windows Server 2003.
From a storage management viewpoint, the VSS framework is the key
component that enables us to create hot point-in-time ...