Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and computing devices configured to establish secure out-of-band storage control. In various embodiments, a management module in a client device may be used to communicate with a server device independent of an operating system of the client device, to facilitate remote storage services. Other embodiments may be disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: A message is multicast to recipients by correlating the message at a management system to agents, each agent being responsible for a set of the recipients, and by conveying the message over a network to the correlated agents for transmission to the recipients. The management system maintains recipient lists wherein each list is associated with one or more agents, each agent maintaining a portion of its associated lists. The management system chooses a single recipient list and conveys an indication of the list to its associated agents. Each notified agent accesses the indicated list and sends the message to the listed recipients. In a further embodiment, an independent management system interfaces a plurality of management systems, each with a set of agents. The independent management system chooses a recipient list, the list being associated with a management system and its agents, and conveys the message based on the chosen list.