They want to protect confidential information while providing the access to those that need it. Windows 2000 is designed to meet all of these needs, providing businesses with a way to rapidly exploit new ways of doing business on the Internet. The architecture underlying Windows 2000 ensures minimum failures so the operating system will be up and running longer, while offering more consistent performance. Windows 2000 is also designed to scale up to handle the capacity required of even the largest Web sites. For example, a Web site powered by just five servers running Windows 2000 can handle 500 million daily Web page hits per day.
Companies can simply add new servers as traffic increases to their Web sites.
And if a problem occurs with one server, the load will be automatically redistributed to other servers, so customers won t experience an interruption. Windows 2000 allows users of different mobile devices to take advantage of the Internet, and it includes expanded security features to ensure that companies can conduct Internet transactions free of risk. For example, it includes advanced techniques for identifying who is accessing a company s computer system. It also includes features that allow IT managers to require customers to use a digital key to access select data on the Internet. These capabilities give us, as the first consumer software ASP, the assurance that our customers will have the computing power they need when they need it.