In his previous company, Valence Research, Bain developed a distributed Web load-balancing software solution that was acquired by Microsoft and is now called Network Load Balancing within the Windows Server operating system.

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Open source software such as Apache Web server and the Linux server operating system have become popular systems to run not only on network servers, but also on server appliances (servers dedicated to single tasks such as e-mail and Web site hosting).

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Customers are then given a range of choices as to how they want to receive those updates including declining it, downloading it for the purposes of evaluating it later, or installing it directly on a server or desktop system direct from the network.

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After some investigation, the problem appeared to be in the Linux network file system (NFS) kernel, the piece of the operating system responsible for some basic server functions.

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Another benefit of server-side flash is that it allows system administrators to manage flash on the server side for performance, but also keep network storage (for example, the storage area network) for storage capacity.

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