I had a front row seat at Microsoft to watch the first two application model transitions. Early mainframe and minicomputer systems were monolithic, with data storage, application code, and terminal ...

For at least the past 20 years, virtual machines and enterprise-ready hypervisors were marketed, sold, and adopted as the future of server-based computing. Dedicated power-hungry servers sitting in ...

Developers working with three tiered software architectures — divided into presentation, business logic and data tiers — cannot efficiently handle temporary application data that must be sharable ...

An application, in which one part runs on one server and another part runs on another. See three-tier client/server. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires ...

Microsoft will release next month a set of new components to its Azure AppFabric suite of middleware cloud services that should make it easier for administrators to create and manage cloud ...

There are many ways to describe a database: the role it plays in a distributed architecture, the various internal components that make it work, and the various levels that define specific roles and ...