The primary function of a client-server system is to create a division of labor between a centralized server and the individual computers that are running your software.

Application Server Some companies that use the client-server organization also use a centralized repository for their programs and applications.

What else will enterprise-wide client/server computing provide a city, county or state? Look to your local corporations for guidance.

In the 60 years or so since there’s been an IT industry, the cloud would be only the third such model, centralized and client-server computing being the two previous ones.

eWEEK 30: Client/server applications were heavily promoted in the 1990s as an effective way to harness the power of PCs connected to corporate networks. But the model just wasn’t scalable.

The network file system market is gaining traction as the demand for efficient, scalable, and secure file-sharing solutions ...

Since everything is managed, stored, and secured in a central server, thin client systems eliminate the issues of installing, updating and patching applications, backing up files, or scanning for ...

Everything old is new again-desktop virtualization moves computing from current fat-client server architecture back to a model similar to times past. What is now device-oriented will become ...

Old models of computing always tend to linger too long, but client-server was based on a fallacy -- and needs to go away sooner rather than later I write this week from IBM’s Insight conference ...

The Global Thin Client Market, valued at approximately USD 1.60 billion in 2022, is anticipated to grow with a healthy growth rate of more than 4.8% over the forecast period from 2023 to 2030. Thin ...

The funny part requires historical perspective. Remember the early days of client/server computing? Part of its attraction was its ability to move processing to the desktop. That way, as the ...