It has installed internet servers on the platform, linked to the outside world via satellite links.
Sealand, now run by Michael Bates, is used as a base for internet servers and other business ventures.
Meanwhile, the less affluent are doing more to feed the goddesses of the shopping malls and Internet servers than their wealthier counterpart.
Maloney warned of the danger of spreading Linux "too thin, " instead of focusing on what it does best now: run small to medium-sized Internet servers.
's new-media facility, he answered questions from a collection of magazine editors as if by rote, but on his way out he asked to see the Internet servers and spent 45 minutes grilling the claque of awed techies there.
His reliable time sources include the national radio time signal operated by NPL, which provides the time pips on the radio, and internet time servers.
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The DNSrides on top-level servers around the world, which in turn are guided by the true pillars of the Internet:13 root servers, most of them run by volunteers.
The virtual reconstruction of Implenia's data center pulled information about the layout of servers and storage, the devices' temperatures, power consumption and data processing over the Internet to IBM's servers, where they were built into a 3-D virtual world model.
For example vehicles are rarely hooked up to the internet or to remote servers, and therefore the computer processor already installed by the car manufacturer handles speech recognition.
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Instead, Zillow ran the job over the Internet, on 500 computer servers rented from Amazon.com.
Switches--the glue that holds computer networks together, routing communications among PCs, servers and the internet--are a little trickier.
Its modular design also means that it can easily expand from cheap consumer devices to big servers supporting the Internet's backbone.
The "taken as read" prediction is the rise of "cloud computing, " which allows consumers to store data, and run apps from, remote servers on the Internet.
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"Your PC can handle your entire city simulation without any help from the internet or EA's servers, " he wrote in a detailed explanation posted to the Pastie website.
As users proliferate, the servers that form the Internet's backbone will also come under more strain.
Today, Cerf lamented, the Internet does little to authenticate either servers, like those that host Web sites, or users themselves.
Major League Baseball games, sitcoms from NBC, movie downloads from Starz and more zip across the Internet via 20, 000 superfast servers that Akamai has deployed in 71 countries.
To add to the menace, the new Java programming language, developed by another Microsoft enemy, Sun Microsystems, had the potential to create applications programmes that could be pulled down from servers linked to the Internet and would run on any operating system.
Processing is done in data centres on specialised servers and streamed over the internet.
Wireless networks that connect people directly to hulking back-end servers could ultimately bypass the Internet and rob portals of both traffic and eyeballs, Bockman says.
Instead of sprawls of special-purpose computer servers--one for Internet applications, one for e-mail and so on--a virtualized system uses one machine to do all of these functions.
Behind the scenes The Pirate Bay team is working hard to ensure that the site will remain online in the event that servers, domain names and Internet routes are cut off.
To prove the feasibility of the technique, Kapela and Pilosov, both owners of small networking companies, collaborated with conference organizers to reroute all of Defcon's Los Vegas Internet traffic through Pilosov's company servers in New York.
Using this, developers will come up with apps that can "introduce themselves, " automatically installing themselves on 1 or 100 servers at once using the internet-era language XML. Such automation is supposed to be the last nail in the mainframe's coffin.
Data centers are used by the telephone companies, but they will also be needed for the widespread shift to cloud computing, where companies and people use files and applications over the Internet instead of relying on software or servers on their premises.
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Using this, developers will come up with apps that can "introduce themselves, " automatically installing themselves on 1 or 100 servers at once using the Internet-era language XML. Such automation and, of course, the power of cheap chips from Intel is supposed to be the last nail in the mainframe's coffin.
But spam still clogs servers, to the chagrin of internet service providers and IT departments.
The security flaw, found in the DNS servers used by large companies and Internet service providers (ISPs), could allow cybercriminals to perform a new, undetectable form of "phishing, " security analysts warn.
In this case, the hundreds of thousands of attacked sites have something in common: They're all hosted on servers running either Microsoft 's Internet Information Services software or its SQL database software.
For example, the IP data center segment grew by 170% year-on-year, reflecting the fact that many companies are buying high-end servers that can handle the massive Internet traffic associated with cloud-based computing services.
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