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 ...

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.

As the Windows client environment has become richer and more powerful over the years, it has become more difficult to manage. Even on a stable and reliable version of Windows--meaning Windows 2000 or ...

An overview of what Client/Server is all about. The course will introduce the six leading technologies for developing Client/Server applications: database servers, TP (Transaction Processing) Monitors ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The transformation of the enterprise computing model to the cloud has now—finally—begun.

When you’ve been involved in data management as long as I have, things are definitely bound to change. And things have changed, quite a lot, in fact. Back when I started in IT, IMS was the primary ...

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