Whenever you use an ATM to check your balance or withdraw some money, you are actually participating in a client-server interaction with a computer on your bank's network. A client-server network ...

With so much progress made virtualizing servers, many observers say it’s time to turn our attention to the desktop. But is it better to use client-side or server-side hypervisors? Hypervisors have, at ...

What is a client-server environment? Numerous applications run in a client-server architecture. This means that client computers (computers forming part of the network) contact a server that provides ...

An architecture in which the user's PC or mobile device (the client) is the requesting machine and the server is the supplying machine, both of which are connected via a local area network (LAN) or a ...

In a client-server environment, an organization's files, and sometimes its applications, are stored not on individual desktop computers but on centralized servers instead. That "client-server" ...

Over the years I have provided computer consulting services for many businesses. While some of these small businesses have been simple one-man operations, many of them were larger. The thing that I ...

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 ...

Recently a client asked me to write a whitepaper about IP address management. At first the assignment seemed completely routine. But as I began looking at the details I realized that I was going to ...

FANUC Factory Automation has developed a distributed data-management program specifically for machine tools driven by Fanuc CNC automation. FOCAS Automation Solution Connect (FASConnect) software is ...