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 ...

Apple may have embraced the pro market on the Mac hardware side with the recent release of the iMac Pro and forthcoming Mac Pro, but the software side, well, that’s a slightly different story. A quiet ...

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, ...

A few days ago I heard about Jellyfin. This is mediaserver software not a world apart from Plex. So you run it on a local machine and it serves up TV shows and movies that are stored locally. The ...

Earlier this year, I looked at a beta release of Windows Home Server and called it a “home run” for Microsoft. This week, Hewlett Packard announced that it would begin taking orders for its new ...

Once an organization grows much beyond two or three people, the need to collaborate and share files inevitably runs into the severe limitations of disk swapping. Inevitably, you’ll hear from friends, ...

With the rise of cloud computing, many companies are stuck with a pile of servers that are retired due to dated hardware and software. So if you've also recently replaced an old server and are ...

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 ...