But he only offers vague assurances of "pull-through, " as the customers who load up on Compaq's industry-standard Web-servers and related equipment also turn to Compaq's services arm to link it all together.
Does it make sense to ban the old light bulb in a world where we are encouraged to store Terrabytes of pointless photographs forever on fire-hot Web-servers forever spinning in a Google server farm?
Much as Google has with its Google Drive service, Apple has embraced cloud computing with its iCloud offering, which lets users store documents, photos, music and movies on Web-based servers.
As public clouds continue to grow, the opportunity to transform companies providing dedicated hosting, content delivery or front-end Web servers are also growing.
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That means the mainframes, which remain popular in financial services and still have advantages in security and resilience, can integrate with x86 machines used as outward-facing Web servers and IBM's more expensive and efficient Power7 Unix servers.
Resulting improvements are expected to bring benefits to enhance cloud computing, high-performance computing, web servers, transactional databases, and data analytics, while reducing power needs by nearly 10%.
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Google App Engine handles all the low-level details of installing web servers, databases, and the like.
Having been caught out by the Internet-stoked demand for web and application servers as well as the very late arrival of Windows 2000 and Intel's Itanium chip, both have recently produced high-end servers that have outscored Sun's in benchmark tests.
These third-party Web services include things like ad servers, data or video feeds, Web analytics trackers and checkout functions.
These banner ad companies typically "hide" the recipient's e-mail address in the Web address of the graphic, so that their servers can later match the cookie to the recipient's e-mail address, Smith said.
In several recent cases, hackers have infected hundreds of thousands of Web servers with software that performs "drive-by downloads" on any visitor's machine, installing password-stealing Trojans or turning the PC into a spam-spewing zombie.
For the government, a warrant isn't currently required after a certain period of time for older information -- e-mail, social networking profiles or cell-phone location data -- stored "in the cloud" on Web servers.
In other words, it's a tough time to be a chief information officer, preparing your Web servers for more than a million new Web-goers a week--and a good time to be the company selling a shortcut.
By using Twitter to pass on links to proxy servers--computers that relay data from blocked Web sites to circumvent Internet filtering--supporters of the Iranian protesters abroad were able to constantly stay ahead of the government's suppression tactics.
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Others say more and more data is being housed on application servers accessible via the Web and that opportunities are essentially limitless - regardless of how late Novell is getting into the market.
Brossel says that proxy servers, which allow Web users to access blocked sites by re-routing traffic through another country, are still impossible to use.
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).
As work shifts to the Web, your files move out of your office and onto Google 's servers--and so does the control over those valuable materials.
For example, Blue Coat blocks communications from Syrian-designated IP addresses to Blue Coat servers, including those used for software or web filtering updates.
"We recommend that the government use secure Web servers and do the hygiene, " says Roberto Medrano, general manager of Hewlett-Packard (HWP) 's Internet security division.
We have good designs to do that blades, discrete rack mount servers and a new scale-out line which is aimed at financial services or web 2.0 where power, density, cooling and acceleration by GPUs all comes into play.
The IP-switching function is meant to create more stability on the Web by allowing an overloaded Web site to switch servers without a hiccup.
Some have unplugged their web connection and found that SimCity can last for 20 minutes before it needs to check in with back-end servers.
The startup's servers provide simple access to web services like Twitter and even text messaging (via Twillo) -- letting developers focus on core appliance functionality rather than the intricacies of HTTP requests, WiFi APIs and network sockets.
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The cloud is designed to save hard-drive storage space for users by instead letting them store and retrieve documents to multiple devices from remote Web servers.
The back-end servers of Danger, the Sidekick's developer, generally do a fine job of reformatting Web pages for the little screen, although they did turn some baseball line scores into meaningless columns of digits.
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