WINDOWS

Ideal for e-commerce and line-of-business applications, Windows 2000 Server delivers enhanced manageability, reliability, availability, and scalability.
 

The Internet has redefined scalability for today's enterprise, demanding unprecedented levels of agility in response to rapidly changing business conditions. In today's competitive and challenging environment, enterprises are required to scale flexibly to respond to spikes in business, and to support the rapid rollout of new products and services. It is increasingly important that an organization's computing infrastructure provides the headroom and the ability to increase or decrease computing capacity almost instantly, while delivering on value.

The Microsoft platform delivers scalability and value, and enables organizations to design their environments to scale via two methods: scale-up and scale-out. Typically, both scale-out and scale-up architectures are employed by organizations to address the capacity needs of web applications, databases, and business applications. The Microsoft platform has been designed to scale-up and scale-out in response to the dynamic processing requirements demanded of today's enterprise, regardless of where they happen in the architecture.

Whether it's handling Web site traffic on the front end, query processing, or large scale database applications on the back-end, the Microsoft platform delivers levels of scaling flexibility for the most demanding IT environments. As demonstrated by industry-standard benchmarks, Microsoft Windows 2000 and SQL Server 2000 offer on-demand scalability to meet the demanding requirements of ecommerce and enterprise applications. The Microsoft platform has achieved world-record performance in benchmark tests with the lowest total cost of ownership on the market. Without having to over-buy computing power up-front, customers can incrementally scale their IT infrastructure as needed*