Today at Spring Internet World, Microsoft Corp. announced the general availability of Microsoft
Application Center 2000, its deployment and management tool for businesses that are "scaling out" their Web applications. Scaling out uses clusters of standard servers instead of a single, monolithic "big-iron" server. Using Application Center 2000, enterprises are already enjoying the higher availability and greater scalability benefits of a scaled-out architecture while managing the servers with the ease and cost-effectiveness of managing a single server.
"Web-based applications have different requirements and act differently than traditional applications," said Dan Kusnetzky, vice president of System Software Research at International Data Corp. "It is not acceptable for them to appear to either slow down or become unavailable. A reliable and available Web-based application means less work for administrators and both a measurable savings and successful implementation to CEOs. Scaling out is a proven way to fulfill organizations´ requirements for 99.999 percent uptime for their Web-based applications."
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Application Center 2000, its deployment and management tool for businesses that are "scaling out" their Web applications. Scaling out uses clusters of standard servers instead of a single, monolithic "big-iron" server. Using Application Center 2000, enterprises are already enjoying the higher availability and greater scalability benefits of a scaled-out architecture while managing the servers with the ease and cost-effectiveness of managing a single server."Web-based applications have different requirements and act differently than traditional applications," said Dan Kusnetzky, vice president of System Software Research at International Data Corp. "It is not acceptable for them to appear to either slow down or become unavailable. A reliable and available Web-based application means less work for administrators and both a measurable savings and successful implementation to CEOs. Scaling out is a proven way to fulfill organizations´ requirements for 99.999 percent uptime for their Web-based applications."
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