servers in cheat sheets
Cheat Sheet: BBC iPlayer
Cheat Sheet iPlayer uses peer-to-peer technology for the download service, allowing content to be downloaded from the nearest point in the network, meaning not all content has to come directly from BBC servers. Not quite.iPlayer is actually the BBC's online on... [05 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
Cheat Sheet This concept has been scaled up and various pieces of software have been developed so - for example - a physical server can hold a number of virtual servers, which may be running different operating systems. [04 Jun 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Blade servers and PCs
Cheat Sheet There are also diskless blades - servers with no hard drives - on which applications are run but not stored. Today I'm here to discuss two types: blade servers and PCs. So what's the difference between blade servers and blade PCs? [24 Jan 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Software as a service
Cheat Sheet However, computers fail - we all know this - and the SaaS vendors claim they would not trade their uptime for that of their users' servers and computers. Software? As a service? I don't understand. You're not the only one. [31 Oct 2006]
Cheat Sheet: WCIT
Cheat Sheet So these are the sort of guys that start praying when the servers go down? So what does that stand for? You'll never guess. It's. Worshipful Company of Information Technologists Worshipful IT? Not quite. [04 Sep 2006]
Cheat Sheet: Offshoring
Cheat Sheet That said, in most cases the data is still stored on servers here. That's to do with India isn't it? Yes and no. It's where companies outsource call centre or IT work overseas, largely because labour and facility costs are much cheaper than here. [11 May 2004]
Cheat Sheet: Itanium 2
Cheat Sheet No mention of Sun Microsystems or IBM servers so far. The advantage of Sun's servers is that there is an ample amount of high-end software, unlike Itanium 2 which suffers from a lack of proven tools. This puts it in the same league as high-end Sun... [05 Jul 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Web services
Cheat Sheet Very broadly the market splits into two halves - the Microsoft area based on .NET, and everyone else working around an environment running Java on application servers. In business-speak, web services are all about linking up different websites so... [31 Jan 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Spam
Cheat Sheet It's a problem because it clogs up mail servers and ISPs and gets in the way of genuine internet traffic. Also you could lobby your ISP to block emails from insecure servers that try to mask their origin. [03 Jan 2002]
Cheat Sheet: Microsoft Passport
Cheat Sheet Just in the last few months we've had the problems with IIS, the infection of its own servers with Code Red, holes found in Internet Explorer and Hotmail, and a constant stream of patches and updates to fix bugs. [09 Nov 2001]
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