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 data grows, a shift in computing paradigm is underway. I started my professional career in the 1990s, during massive shift from mainframe computing to the heyday of client/server computing and ...

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 ...

Old models of computing always tend to linger too long, but client-server was based on a fallacy -- and needs to go away sooner rather than later I write this week from IBM’s Insight conference in Las ...

COMMENTARY--The '60s and '70s were the decades of the mainframe. The '80s made up the decade of client-server computing. The '90s were the Internet years. Now we're entering the decade of the ...

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 ...

Enterprises have the tendency to adopt a technology only after it moves to its third major version. CXOs are not for embracing cutting-edge technologies before they became stable and proven to be ...

The past 25 years have seen one corporate IT revolution after another, like waves crashing on the beach. How can corporate information technology staff support businesses more effectively in the face ...

Enterprise Cloud adoption is one of the most--if not the most--surveyed topics in enterprise IT today. This is true I think because cloud computing now impacts nearly every computing vendor. It is ...

The Defense Department is turning to the cloud in expectation it will rain down greater computing efficiency. The Pentagon’s strategy seeking to clarify the transition, which was released in July, has ...