IBM's in training for Olympic marathon

How do you plan, create and provide the content for a Web site comprising more than 70,000 pages that is expected to receive billions of page views in just 14 days?

At the same time how do you protect what will be the juiciest target on the Net from hackers and distributed denial of service attacks?

That's the task facing the IBM (ibm) team responsible for the Sydney Olympics Web site. By the end of the games, the olympics.com is expected to have broken several records including the most hits per minute and the most in any single day. Full story to follow. -- David Hellaby, ZDNet Australia News