The rap on converting to server-based has long been that it was big business complicated.
Western firms had begun shifting much earlier towards simpler server-based systems and packaged software.
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There are several advantages and a couple of drawbacks to remote server-based systems.
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The result, he says, is the ability to deploy new applications at one-tenth the infrastructure cost of a traditional server-based platform.
Despite years of negotiating with Hollywood content owners, we lost out to a much larger company who presented a closed server-based system.
P2P networks can move large files (like movies) faster than traditional server-based networks, because they harness the unused power of millions of PCs.
Anders said much of the growing demand for gaming stems from server-based gaming--software-based applications used for slots and video gaming machines--which bodes well for manufacturer International Game Technology.
The question that remains is whether or not this proposed NDS integration will be as complete as Cisco's ongoing work to incorporate Microsoft's Windows 2000 Server-based Active Directory into its hardware management software.
Anders said much of the growing demand for gaming stems from server-based gaming--software-based applications used for slots and video gaming machines--which bodes well for manufacturer International Game Technology (nyse: IGT - news - people ).
Meanwhile, IT organizations that have already shifted from a desktop-based to a server-based model will be able to respond to the Y2K threat more quickly, and their highly visible success should further drive the market in that direction.
The server-based One allows Mobile to amalgamate data on email interactions from multiple inboxes (currently includes Outlook and Gmail accounts, among others), and because it exists on the servers, that data set will remain even if you buy a new BlackBerry device.
The multimodal and multilingual speech engine runs on a cloud-based server to provide extremely high-quality recognition with low latency.
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The new service pairs the Samsung SmartCam SNH-1011 with iWatchLife's cloud-based server to provide all the home-monitoring data your paranoid heart requires.
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The enhanced 32-bit execution capability will benefit existing 32-bit cloud server applications, while 64-bit execution extends the applicability of ARM technology-based solutions to enable new opportunities in networking, server and high-performance computing.
Enter Sibblingz: a startup that Tuesday launched a cloud-based game server that allows game developers to more quickly and easily create free-to-play games with micro-transactions in them, across Facebook, iPhone and the Web simultaneously.
Today, client-server architectures have been replaced by browser-based user Web applications and the cost of computing has fallen dramatically which, along with cloud computing, have made scalability issue quite a different proposition.
They are designed to make it easier for developers to create server-side Web-based applications.
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New ARM-based server all around lower power utilization, high density. 3Par has better solution in storage.
And, in its lower-end Intel-based server market, Compaq is facing stiffer competition, not least from Dell.
Both quit their jobs at Dazel, an Austin-based designer of client-server software, to start their own Internet software firm.
The campaign, which includes rebranding Digital Unix and launching new Alpha-based server products, is Compaq's latest effort to grow Unix market share.
Maloney figures one Intel-based server will be needed for every 600 new smart phones or every 122 new tablets hooked up to the Internet.
Netscape Enterprise Web Server and a browser-based tool for managing it.
"No one runs large, million-hits-per-day Web sites on Linux, " Occleshaw said, adding that IBM would still recommend its AIX Unix-based server to customers that wanted to run large, serious enterprise applications.
With applications freed from legacy server environments, cloud-based collaboration platforms can more easily roll out mobile app versions of enterprise apps, while also adding in hooks for various types of social networking.
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But he batted down any suggestion that Intel's Red Hat investment was a warning to Microsoft, which wants to win corporate hearts and wallets with its NT operating system running on Intel-based server machines.
Setup is straightforward: connect the camera(s) to your network, set up the shooters in your places of interest -- and then monitor all activity on your WiFi-enabled devices. iWatchLife's cloud-based server displays all your cameras, and other users can grant you access to their cams.
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It is also a recognition that Microsoft contends in a world where companies like Amazon and Google offer a lot of Microsoft-type server and operational software, through cloud-based services.
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