A once-profitable market for a key piece of e-commerce software is cooling, forcing big software makers to rethink their strategies. In the past three years, BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle and Sun ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Servers are complicated machines, requiring cool rooms and regular updates and maintenance to run properly. The problem is, many IT departments are understaffed, and adding server management on top of ...

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. This model has a number of ...

Microsoft is the 800-pound-gorilla of software. So perhaps it was just a matter of time before the company rolled out a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) play, combing software-defined compute, ...

This week, Redmondmag.com talked with Microsoft about the Windows Server Software Defined (WSSD) program. WSSD is a fairly new Microsoft validation program for OEM hardware makers, with the first ...

Microsoft announced on Oct. 30 that it expanded SQL Server passive use rights for organizations licensing SQL Server with Software Assurance (SA) coverage. Organizations with SA coverage on SQL Server ...

Update 26.3.2024: While not on the same scale as 2021's Microsoft Exchange Server hack (see below this update), security problems impacting Exchange Server have reemerged. In March 2024's monthly ...

A computer that runs a website. Using the HTTP protocol, the Web server delivers Web pages to browsers as well as other data files to Web-based applications. The Web server includes the hardware, ...