TABLE OF CONTENTS Over time, server technologies have evolved significantly. When I entered the industry in the early 1980s, there was no such thing as a PC server. My first server was desktop machine (Intel 80286 CPU) with extra memory and a single big (80 MB) disk drive. Since then the capabilities of servers have grown at dizzying rate. At around that same time, Intel s Gordon Moore made his now-famous statement that processing power (actually transistor count which implied processing power) would double every 18 months. From a CPU perspective, that is exactly what has happened ( storage capacity has grown even faster), although it is interesting to note that storage capacity to cost ratios have increased faster than Moore s law would predict. In this section, I will spend a brief moment touching on some important server technology innovations that are important to Exchange deployments. I do not plan to delve deeply into any of these technologies since that is beyond the scope of this book. My focus is on pointing key server technologies that make a difference in the building of reliable systems. A final note here is that I will not venture too far down the path of performance and scalability. A colleague of mine, Pierre Bijaoui, has written an excellent book entitled Scaling Microsoft Exchange 2000 , which covers this topic in great detail.
Server architecture may be a bit of an overused term. Here I mean...
