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Mary Kay InTouch Community Scales Out and Up With Windows 2000 to Accommodate 1800 Percent Increase in Online Orders Over Two-Year Period

PublisherMicrosoft
Format HTMLDate added10 Aug 2007
Topics Processors, Windows NT - 2000 - 2003
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Using the scale-out and scale-up capabilities of the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server family, Mary Kay Inc. has been able to easily grow its online ordering solution to accommodate this phenomenal growth. New Web servers can be deployed in just three hours, giving Mary Kay Inc. the agility to rapidly support both new functionality and increased demand for existing applications. On the database tier, the company scaled up to a clustered solution running Windows 2000 Advanced Server on a 32-processor Unisys ES7000, achieving the high levels of performance, reliability and scalability needed to support Mary Kay Inc.'s rapidly-growing Web infrastructure.

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