Amazon charges 15 cents for a gigabyte of storage and 10 cents an hour for a server, services that customers say are up to 90% cheaper than rental alternatives from computer-hosting companies like Equinix and Rackspace.
Amazon charges 15 cents for a gigabyte of storage and 10 cents an hour for a server, services that customers say are up to 90% cheaper than rental alternatives from computer-hosting companies like Equinix (nasdaq: EQIX - news - people ) and Rackspace.
Of course, getting a new server for your business (or signing up for a managed server in the cloud) is not something that people do every day.
For example, a user in Hong Kong will get content for a website from a server in Hong Kong rather than a server in Paris.
It's a tiny piece of software, and if they had figured out a way for us to store our photos locally or to pay a small charge for server space exceeding some amount (as Flickr does), it could have stayed a rather noncommercial affair.
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Compaq quietly started shipping the product last month, and it is being used as an entry-level commercial server and as a technical server for mechanical modeling, Yeates said.
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The idea of a central management console for all server and desktop administration tools is a complete change for NT users and should give managers greater control over more NT resources.
For more than a year a team of three very smart engineers set out to reinvent a server farm for the 21st century.
My company was without a server for an entire week until it got fixed.
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In some cases, the user account can also act as the main server for a private mini-network.
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E-mail has been restored for BlackBerry smartphones after a server crash yesterday left millions without the service.
At this station, reps used an Android app paired with a smartphone camera to photograph plastic food samples, then upload them to a server for analysis.
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Second, remember that when they decide to shut down a server for an always-on-DRM game, even if it's really just a single player game, it is legally unplayable.
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Which is why I will be taking my presentation on my computer, putting it on an external drive, posting it to an FTP server for a colleague to download and putting my FedEx account number on speed dial in case a copy needs to get to the hotel overnight.
Let's say I go into a fast food restaurant and I ask for a cheese burger and the server smiles at me and says - You know, just for 40 American cents more you can get a larger size.
Minecraft supports a multiplayer mode allowing players to set up and manage a server that can host dozens or even hundreds of simultaneous players in a single, persistent virtual world (for an example of a popular Minecraft server, see Meepcraft).
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The senior manager for a very sensitive project had both the server and documents for the project encrypted.
Chief among these open-source programmes is Linux, now a real alternative to Microsoft Windows for server computers (and one that even runs on a few aficionados' desktop computers).
The problem with this, he notes, is that a deceleration in server growth will affect a variety of associated tech sectors, slowing demand for server-related chips, software licenses, networking equipment and storage.
Let me compare this to an experience a friend of mine recently had when he was purchasing a new server for his business.
The system proposed by Microsoft keeps the access rights for a document on a central server, so the permissions can be changed at a later date.
In September a national retailer based in Ohio discovered that Scob had weaseled its way into headquarters, taking up residence on a server used for clearing credit card transactions.
Dell is VMware's number one reseller, and in the view of Dell, the acquisition makes a good fit because EqualLogic is a good platform for VMware server virtualization products.
Dataquest, a San Jose research firm, also predicts big things the operating system, saying Linux will account for almost a quarter of worldwide server appliance revenue by the year 2003.
As much as it's important to have every component of a PC stuck together in a laptop, that same monolithic strategy is a major liability for server clusters: if one part breaks or grows obsolete, it can drag down everything else.
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