Harness the Power of Windows for Your Enterprise Windows Data Center: The Right Step For Your Business? Windows Data Center provides a single operating system that can be implemented in an organization from the desktop to an enterprise-wide computing environment. Windows  is emerging as a major industry standard and moving into the enteprise environment in a big way. But is Windows the best platform to support your mission-ciritcal applications? The Answer: It depends. Windows Data Center is right only if you are willing to plan today so that you can harness its powerful benefits tomorrow. Windows provides a single operating system that can be implemented in an organization from the desktop to an enterprise-wide computing environment. And, in time, Windows will be able to give you more flexibility, availability, scalability, and performance than your mainframe. However, achieving these benefits will not be automatic. It will require an understanding of the capabilities of Windows technology and how to combine it with state-of-the-art middleware to get desired performance. It will also require the ability to translate Windows technology ito a solution that addresses your unique business needs. And, it will require development of an enabling computing architecture that melds easily with your current technology infrastructure and supports not only today's solutions but tomorrow's as well.