You can then run the files on your server, the web, behind the firewall or even from an embeddable object.
WebDrive lets you edit files on your FTP server using your favorite editing applications.
Now I could host files on their secure server and access them anytime online, from any computer or even my mobile.
This allows the web page to have links requesting different files from my ftp server that all point to the same empty file.
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Are all of your databases and files on every workstation and server being backed up every night?
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The new model was peer-to-peer, where every user on the network acts as both a client and a server, sharing files and telling other users where else they can go to get them.
Grokster and StreamCast tried to get around this objection by writing software that allowed files to be swapped without a central server.
But while a typical cockpit may have a hundred or so switches, a single Linux server has hundreds of config files with thousands of controls.
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P2P networks can move large files (like movies) faster than traditional server-based networks, because they harness the unused power of millions of PCs.
Better yet, if you have a cable modem or digital subscriber line (DSL) service, this server will let you access your files from anywhere that you have an Internet connection.
It is spread when the infected USB device is inserted into a Microsoft Windows workstation or server whereby the setup.exe and autorun.ini files run automatically.
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The company took the server that had been attacked offline and restored account information from backup files.
The problem is that, without a working server, we had no place to actually restore our backed up files and applications.
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Servers often use special virtualized software allowing data from multiple companies to be stored on one server or processor (an analogy would be instead of a cabinet containing files from a single customer, it holds files from numerous clients).
Huang used an iPad and MacBook Air to access rich computer-aided design files and special effects software that typically require a burly graphics processor running on a dedicated workstation or server.
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The Mini was launched a year ago as a scaled-down, blue version of Google's bright yellow Search Appliance--essentially a rack-mounted server that businesses could plug into their network infrastructure for searching up to 100, 000 shared files and Web pages.
Called Y2K Scanner, this plug-in server module from Centennial works with Trend Micro's InterScan VirusWall to discover Y2K flaws in files created by spreadsheets, such as Lotus' 1-2-3 and Microsoft's Excel, as well as files from databases, such as Microsoft's Access and Inprise's dBase.
It does this using the BitTorrent protocol, in which the large files are split up into small pieces which are then distributed from peer to peer, rather than from one centralized server.
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