Enterprise Server System Software Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Datacenter Edition

Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Datacenter Edition is the most powerful and functional mission-critical, enterprise server operating system ever offered by Microsoft. It offers significant reliability, scalability and manageability improvements compared to Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.
 
Reliability is enhanced through a range of new and improved features including memory mirroring, Hot Add Memory and health detection in Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0. For higher availability, the Microsoft Cluster service now supports up to eight-node clusters and geographically separated nodes. Better scalability is provided with the ability to scale up to 32 processor on an ES7000 system. Overall, Windows Server 2003 is faster with up to 140 percent better file-system performance as well as significantly faster performance for Active Directory, XML Web services, Terminal Services and networking.
 
Microsoft designed this edition of the operating system to support mission-critical workloads in enterprise data centers.  The result: A highly productive infrastructure that is optimized for running the most demanding applications and services.