Depending on how immersive the game is, I can certainly see how being able to check in on my character or guild or the state of the server vs. server component, etc. would be a convenience.

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Samsung Electronics' award-winners include products in the TV, home theater system, mobile phone, tablet, home appliance, server, software, and computer component categories.

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BizTalk Orchestration: A component of the BizTalk Server 2000, BizTalk Orchestration is designed to let developers and business analysts work together to define and modify business processes in applications using a visual, workflow-like interface, instead of having to do so at the more complex and cryptic "low-level" software interface level.

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In addition Citrix, one of the major players in server virtualization, recently purchased MDM vendor Zenprise and claims as part of that acquisition that virtualization is a major component of its mobile management capabilities.

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Both consisted of two parts, a client component running on the Cisco 819 router designed to handle machine to machine (M2M) communications and server based software which handles various tasks, such as data analytics.

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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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