What security implications are there in using Open Database Connectivity in a client/server environment? Can we use it over a wireless LAN? ODBC does not encrypt your data for transmission, so to ...

This article expands on the topic introduced in the earlier blog post Secure Access to Applications with Azure, which focused ...

At the start of the millennium, the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) security protocol allowed encrypted data to be sent securely between two endpoints. In 2003, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

From mainframe, to client-server, to web, to cloud, IT architectures have evolved to support the way people demand to work. In a sense, everything old is new again: Modern cloud-computing technology ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many companies are using open source Linux servers for DNS/DHCP servers and Web servers, but it is also possible to use Linux or UNIX as a file server. The Network File System has been around for many ...

A peek into the existing quality control labs shows that analytical systems are usually configured such that data storage, measurements, and system maintenance are all carried out with the help of a ...