Proven IT Infrastructure Cost Savings
With Windows Server 2003, organizations
create a more efficient IT infrastructure with a
20 to 30 percent reduction in servers, 20
percent reduction in overall costs, and
significantly better performance across all
major workloads. And compared to Windows NT
Server 4.0, Windows Server 2003 reduces
deployment costs by 50 percent and offers 50
percent less unplanned downtime.
A Dependable IT Infrastructure with the Best
Economics
These days it's more important than ever for
IT organizations to do more with less without
compromising security. One way is to leverage
existing investments, but businesses need room
to grow, too.
Is it possible to reduce costs without
compromising fundamental services—and continue
to provide increasing access to data, a
necessity in today's global enterprises?
The Solution: Windows Server 2003
With Windows Server 2003, IT professionals
can increase their operational efficiency while
improving essential services—better security,
reliability, manageability, and performance than
with previous versions of Windows server
products.
The IT infrastructure in Windows Server 2003
delivers:
- A dependable foundation for systems,
resources, and users.
- Better, easier identity management.
- A platform for server consolidation.
- Anywhere, anytime network access.
Benefits
A Rock-Solid Foundation
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Improved Performance |
Server
performance is at least two times
greater than with Microsoft Windows NT®
Server 4.0, allowing organizations to
connect more users and run more
applications on the same computer. And
compared to Microsoft Windows® 2000
Server, internal tests show that Windows
Server 2003 delivers up to 140 percent
better performance in the file system
and significantly better performance in
various other features including its
Active Directory® service, Web server
and Terminal Server components, and
networking services. |
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Improved Scalability |
The
Windows Server 2003 family provides
scalability through scale up, enabled by
symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) and
scale out, enabled by clustering. Plus,
improved support for SMP and database
scalability is built in, as is support
for new, scalable hardware—up to 64-way
SMP, up to 512 gigabytes (GB) of RAM,
Non-Uniform Memory Access(NUMA) support,
and more. |
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Secure by Design, Secure by Default |
Windows
Server IT administrators can protect,
detect, defend, recover, and manage
systems, resources, and users more
securely than before. With a more secure
architecture and new security-aware
features, vulnerabilities in the code
are reduced. In addition, the attack
surface area has been reduced and unused
features are turned off by default.
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Simplified and Automated Management
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One-To-Many Management |
IT
administrators can manage users,
computers, and resources more
efficiently across the enterprise
through enhanced Active Directory and
Group Policy capabilities, which provide
simplified, one-to-many management. The
new Group Policy Management Console (GPMC)
dramatically simplifies planning,
deployment, management, and
troubleshooting of Group Policy
implementations. New command-line and
script-based administration features
also improve manageability of
distributed Windows-based environments. |
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Automated Deployment |
Windows
Server 2003 supports simplified and
automated system deployment for a broad
range of scenarios. Remote Installation
Services enables full automation of
desktop and server deployments. Coupled
with the Windows Preinstallation
Environment, administrators can automate
highly customized deployments. In
addition, Windows Server 2003,
Enterprise Edition, includes Automated
Deployment Services (ADS), a solution
optimized for rapid, mass deployment of
servers which also includes powerful
image editing capabilities. |
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Enhanced Security Management |
Security templates ease the management
of security configurations across the
enterprise. Software restriction
policies allow administrators to
restrict the use of potentially harmful
software by groups of users, computers,
and across the organization. Software
Update Services give IT organizations
control over the application of
operating system updates within an
enterprise while simplifying the process
of keeping Windows systems up-to-date
and secure. |
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Effective User Service Management |
Anywhere access to user settings,
applications, and data is made possible
through IntelliMirror® capabilities.
Administrators can efficiently configure
consistent computing environments for
groups of users, and users can have
uninterrupted access to their data files
even when disconnected from the network.
Together with self-service restoration
of user data and powerful remote user
assistance, these capabilities increase
user productivity and satisfaction while
reducing support costs. |
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Simplified Operations Management |
New
remote, command-line, and headless
system management capabilities improve
the manageability of distributed
computing environments, while
streamlined graphical user interfaces,
including the new Manage Your Server
Roles Wizard, simplify server
administration. Windows Server 2003 also
delivers enhanced system monitoring,
troubleshooting, and recovery
capabilities. |
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Improved Manageability of Operating
System Services |
Windows
Server 2003 delivers new capabilities
and greater automation for managing
system services, including significantly
improved manageability for Internet
Information Services (IIS) 6.0 and
automated server clustering. With
Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition,
administrators can also manage
applications' use of system resources
through the Windows System Resource
Manager. |
Anywhere, Anytime Network Access with
Greater Security
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Improved Secure, Connected
Infrastructure |
Networking improvements and new features
in the Windows Server 2003 family extend
the versatility, manageability, and
dependability of network
infrastructures. With the introduction
of a basic firewall (Internet Connection
Firewall) and new network-access
security capabilities using IEEE 802.1X
(Extensible Authentication Protocol over
LAN) for clients, Windows Server 2003
helps secure access and protect both
wired and wireless networks. |
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Secure Mobile Access |
Support
for the 802.1x (wireless network)
standard provides security and
performance improvements. The risk of
network attacks are reduced through
password-based wireless access
authenticated with Protected Extensible
Authentication Protocol (PEAP). In
addition, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
client enrollment is now integrated with
Active Directory.
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Reliable, Standards-Based Networking
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Reliability additions include a load
balancing capability for both virtual
private network (VPN) services based on
Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) as
well as Internet Authentication Service
(IAS) servers. This new, standards-based
VPN solution also eliminates the
difficulty of using IPSec-based VPNs or
IPSec-protected applications across a
NAT. |
Better, Easier Identity Management
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Integrated Desktop Services |
Administrators have greater flexibility
to design, deploy, and manage their
organization's directory. Integrated
directory services provide a central
repository for managing users and
computers, accounts and policies.
Integrated security services provide
flexible yet strong authentication with
the convenience of a single sign-on to
integrated applications. |
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Enterprise Interoperability |
Administrators can configure and manage
Active Directory more efficiently, even
in very large enterprises with multiple
forests, domains, and sites. Support for
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
version 3 provides rich, standards-based
directory access. In addition, for
Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition
only, Microsoft Metadirectory Services
stores and integrates identity
information from multiple directories in
an organization. |
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Improved Web Authentication and
Management |
Active
Directory provides single-logon
capability for the Web, providing
superior access to networked resources
even for roaming users. Integration with
IIS 6.0 offers more secure user
authentication for enterprises, or
Microsoft .NET Passport can be used to
manage user credentials and
authentication. With IIS, administrators
can also manage extranet access more
securely through Kerberos or NTLM and
get support for URL authorization in
Windows Server 2003. |
Platform for Server Consolidation
| File
Server Consolidation |
With
improved storage services, not only can
a larger number of users be hosted on
fewer servers, but service levels can be
maintained when consolidating. The
result is greater storage capacity with
fewer resources and servers. Other
benefits include:
- A 100-percent file server
performance increase over Windows
2000.
- Better storage area network
(SAN) support with multipath I/O and
shadow copy backup.
- The Volume Copy Shadow service,
which creates point-in-time copies
of application data without shutting
down applications. Together with a
SAN, the Volume Copy Shadow service
allows off-host, online backups,
significantly reducing the backup
window on a front-line server and
enabling backup process
consolidation to a smaller number of
servers connected to a SAN.
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| Print
Server Consolidation |
Key
improvements in print server
manageability combine with a performance
improvement of up to 100 percent over
Windows 2000 Server for better print
spooling on heavily loaded servers. And
with support for five times more print
queues, organizations have more reasons
than ever to consolidate print servers
to Windows Server 2003. |
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Domain Server Consolidation |
Significant improvements in
availability, scalability, and
manageability enable Windows Server 2003
to support enterprise-scale domain
consolidation. Tested to 100 million
objects, Windows Server 2003 supports
larger domains with new Group Policy
objects (GPOs) for greater directory
control and flexibility. Consolidating
domains is much less complex and allows
organizations to run much higher
workloads on fewer servers. |
| Web
Application Consolidation |
Compared to previous versions, IIS 6.0
with its many enhancements provides new
opportunities for large-scale Web server
consolidation. Benefits include:
- Greater reliability. Health
monitoring combined with kernel-mode
queuing and a fault-tolerant process
architecture significantly increase
the availability of Web sites and
applications while reducing server
downtime.
- Isolation features.
Self-contained application pools
prevent one application or site from
disrupting XML Web services or other
Web applications on a server.
- A performance increase of 100 to
165 percent over IIS 5.0.
- Greater consolidation. Only 10
to 50 percent as many servers are
needed, helping organizations to do
more with fewer resources.
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Application and Mixed Workload
Consolidation |
Major
enhancements in Windows Server 2003 make
application and mixed workload
consolidation possible. Higher
application workloads can be run on
larger capacity servers, freeing
datacenter space for other uses. With
fewer servers to manage, administrative
costs are reduced as well. Key
enhancements include:
- Windows System Resource Manager
manages CPU and processor allocation
to applications coexisting on a
server.
- Virtual Server can be used to
host legacy applications.
- Load balancing, failover, and
clustering enhancements help
organizations build redundancy and
failover into consolidated
environments.
- Side-by-side DLLs allow
co-hosted applications to coexist
without conflict.
- A performance increase of up to
100 percent over Windows 2000
Server.
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