(1) A communications network that uses dedicated servers. In this context, the term is used to contrast it with a peer-to-peer network, which allows any client to also be a server. (2) A network that ...

Servers and clients are the building blocks of computer networks Client-server networking grew in popularity during the 1990s ...

Whenever you connect two computers together, either with cables or wirelessly, you have created a computer network. When the computers on the network can work independently of each other, it is ...

Application sharing between a client, middleware and enterprise server Application sharing between a client, application server and enterprise database server.

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 ...

Many companies are using open source Linux servers for DNS/DHCP servers and Web servers, but it is also possible to use Linux or UNIX as a file server. The Network File System has been around for many ...

An architecture in which the user's PC or mobile device (the client) is the requesting machine and the server is the supplying machine, both of which are connected via a local area network (LAN) or a ...