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Client/Server distribution and the nature of the client (end user device) itself are important factors in understanding distributed architecture. If the client just features a UI, the server is doing ...

Businesses need to approach energy the way they approach financial investments: diversify risk, ensure reliability and use ...

Roughly five years ago, power management met an inflection point in system design. The forced-air-cooling budget for racks in telecom and datacom applications had reached a ceiling. The proliferation ...

An operating system designed to work in a network. More complex than a centralized or decentralized architecture, each computer in a distributed system operates and scales independently but is part of ...

It's rare to see an enterprise that relies solely on centralized computing. But there are nevertheless still many organizations that do keep a tight grip on their internal data center and eschew any ...