Microsoft Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX)
- by Charles Cline
For all you admins and other technical people out there who have watched the Windows OS spool the data from network storage to your workstation and then back to network storage, watch for Offloaded Data Transfer (ODX). I saw ODX at TechEd a few weeks ago and the data movement is primarily kept at the backend storage network. EMC and other storage vendors are already posting about when they will have this functionality.Here's some information about it:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh848056(v=vs.85).aspxhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh848056(v=vs.85).aspx
