Increase manageability by consolidating servers and developing a solution to decrease the time it takes to propagate content to the servers. Downtime is unacceptable. The increased reliability will be achieved through better software configuration management controls, more thoroughly tested drivers and devices, and better hardware support. Rather than spending time improving server performance and reliability itself. The vertical scalability of Datacenter Server provides a platform that can grow the business in the future without significantly growing the number of servers.
Fewer servers means a reduced total cost of ownership.
Managing more consistent configurations and fewer components on the Datacenter platform will decrease hardware complexity and increase the efficiency of the IT administration staff. We are also looking to ISV partners who are committed to increasing the manageability of the Datacenter product. First, we have to be extremely reliable, and more available than our competition. Our second goal is to be more cost efficient than our competition. Finally, we have to be more cutting-edge than our competition.