Old computer systems were very easy to understand. You would simply enter data into your workstation and it would be fed to the mainframe computer. Called a master/slave system, the mainframe master ...

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Desktop virtualization-separating a PC desktop environment from a physical machine using a client-server set-up-will ramp up U.S. Defense Department computing efficiencies and cut costs significantly.

As the Windows client environment has become richer and more powerful over the years, it has become more difficult to manage. Even on a stable and reliable version of Windows--meaning Windows 2000 or ...

As integrated platforms have become more critical, there’s increased interest to ingest Bloomberg data into proprietary and third-party applications, whether for trade and order management, risk, ...

To read the IT press in the early 1990s, those far-off days just before the Web was the go-to source of information, was to be fed a rosy vision of a future in which desktop and server computing would ...

Red Hat is in the midst of changing its image from a top Linux company to the future king of cloud computing. CEO Jim Whitehurst told me in 2011 that the Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud would be ...