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.

Local area networks are now a part of most businesses and organizations, providing connectivity between computers, printers and other devices and facilitating efficient communications within a ...

Some of the most innovative and revolutionary results occur when methods from one field are combined with methods from another. Networked file systems, digital signal processing and graphical user ...

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 ...

Technology moves at a lightning-fast pace. A brand new desktop computer has an average lifespan of two to five years, after which both its hardware and its software have become obsolete. For ...

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 ...

Few IT duties are as universal as the care and feeding of the corporate desktop. While other aspects of IT get easier thanks to new technologies like server virtualization, there's still no magic pill ...

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I was on vacation last week and found myself waxing philosophic about how computing has evolved in our organizations over the years and where computing is headed over the next five to ten years. I can ...

The growth of rich mobile and edge applications is requiring developers to build applications in new ways. Client-serverless is the way of the future. Today’s users expect the entire internet at their ...

Not long ago server virtualization was IT's New World, inhabited by a relatively few courageous souls who dared to break the framework of one server per application and one application to server. The ...