It introduced a cool, though technically flawed, means of storage management called Drive Extender (dropped in the most recent version). There is no question that WHS, now officially being discontinued with the release of Windows Server 2012, was a cool product. It took 14 years for Microsoft to address the server in the home part of the vision with Windows Home Server (WHS), and the question that haunted it almost from the beginning was “too little, too late” or “too much, too expensive for the mainstream consumer”? And then, more quietly since this was nominally an Enterprise discussion, he’d add-on the opportunity for servers in the home. There were many millions of places where at least one employee went to work every day, and each of them justified a Server. When Microsoft’s David Vaskevitch was running around in 1993-94 making his pitch why the company should get serious about the Enterprise business he’d use an argument that started with data centers and got to the number of small businesses and branch offices. This is a blog entry about the strategic realities of these four mechanisms for sharing and backing up data with both backward and forward looks. No, this isn’t a blog entry about comparing these options though someone would do the world a service by writing a good one.
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