Desktop virtualization-separating a PC desktop environment from a physical machine using a client-server set-up-will ramp up U.S. Defense Department computing efficiencies and cut costs significantly.

Client/Server distribution and the nature of the client (end user device) itself are important factors in understanding distributed architecture. If the client just features a UI, the server is doing ...

Explaining the ongoing evolution from client-server to cloud-native, source of much confusion and misdirection when comparing SaaS offerings There are many definitions of software as a service (SaaS).

Old computer systems were very easy to understand. You would simply enter data into your workstation and it would be fed to the mainframe computer. Called a master/slave system, the mainframe master ...

“If you were supposed to understand it, we wouldn’t call it code.” — from a Federal Express promotion, reported by IS Survivalist Matthew Persico Imitation, I’m told, is the sincerest form of flattery ...

One of the buzzwords to emerge over the past year is that of "serverless" computing or architecture, which, as the term suggests, involves the provisioning of key information technology resources to ...

When we first started evangelizing the how-to’s of rightsizing, downsizing, and capsizing back in 1993, we spoke about our #1 priority, a client/server production acceptance process. It was, and still ...

Intel unveils new architectures for two x86 CPU cores, two data center SoCs, two discrete GPUs and a revolutionary multicore performance hybrid architecture for client. SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS ...

His sale of his company's storied personal computer division may be the strongest indication that Sam Palmisano believes the PC's status as a business computing tool is in decline. But if there were ...

In most common use, a server is a physical computer dedicated to run one or more services, to serve the needs of the users of other computers on a network. Depending on the computing service that it ...