by Microsoft Software
Platform:
Windows NT / 98 / 2000 / Me / 95Buy new:
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Designed for medium to large businesses, Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition, is an operating system for servers running applications such as networking, messaging, inventory, and customer service systems; databases; and e-commerce Web sites. Enterprise Edition delivers high reliability, performance, and superior business value and is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. It offers support for high-performance servers and can be used to cluster servers for greater load handling. These capabilities provide reliability that helps ensure systems remain available--even if problems arise.
The Enterprise Edition includes new features and improvements that render it the most dependable, enterprise-ready server operating system Microsoft has ever created. Key technologies introduced in Windows 2000 Server have been enhanced, including network load balancing, server clusters, and the Active Directory service. Active Directory is now faster and more robust over unreliable wide area network (WAN) connections, thanks to more efficient synchronization and replication as well as credential caching in branch office domain controllers.
In addition, Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition, introduces new technologies, such as a common language runtime that safeguards networks from malicious or poorly designed code. Improvements to security functionality, including security for Internet Information Services (IIS), public key infrastructure (PKI), and Kerberos, as well as new support for smart cards and biometrics.
Note: This is an Enterprise Server product plus 25 CALs.
Windows Server 2003 is the most productive infrastructure platform for powering connected applications, networks, and Web services from the workgroup to the data center. Easy to deploy, manage, and use, Windows Server 2003 helps you build a secure IT infrastructure that provides a powerful application platform for quickly building connected solutions and an information worker infrastructure for enhanced communication and collaboration anytime and anywhere. In addition to including all the features in Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition, Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition, adds enhanced availability, scalability, and dependability. Server clusters provide high availability and disaster tolerance for mission-critical database management, file sharing, intranet data sharing, messaging, and general business applications. With Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition cluster service supports up to eight-node clusters for increased flexibility in adding and removing hardware in a geographically dispersed cluster environment. The cluster service also provides improved scaling options for applications. Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition, allows server clusters to be deployed in a variety of different configurations, in particular: single cluster configurations with dedicated storage; multiple clusters on a storage area network (SAN), potentially with other Windows-based servers or operating systems; clusters spanning multiple sites (that is, geographically dispersed clusters). The Windows Server 2003 family scales from single-processor solutions all the way up to 64-way systems. Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition, supports servers with up to 8 processors.