BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Server
- a computer that provides services to another computer. Typically, a server stores data to be shared over a computer network. The computers receiving services are called clients.
Wiktionary Definition for: Server
- One who serves.
- A tray for dishes; a salver.
- A computer or a program which provides services to other programs or users, either in the same computer or over a computer network.
- Preferred unisex term for a waitress or waiter.
Additional Resources
- Guest Post: Yahoo's Cloud Team Open Sources Traffic Server
- Today, Yahoo moved its open source cloud computing initiatives up a notch with the donation of its Traffic Server product to the Apache Software Foundatio n . Traffic Server is used in-house at Yahoo to manage its own trafic and it enables session management, authentication, configuration management,...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Yahoo Open Sources Traffic Server, Updates Hadoop
- Yahoo has taken its second major step in five months towards open-source cloud computing by introducing an open source version of Traffic Server, a high performance application server for builders of cloud services.Yahoo has taken its second major step in five months towards open-source cloud computing by introducing an open...
- News items 2009-11-02
- Microsoft CEO Ballmer Announces SharePoint Server 2010, Office 2010 Beta
- Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 will include a greater degree of cloud-based functionality and faster enterprise search, according to the company, and be available as a public beta in November along with Microsoft Office 2010. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer plans on highlighting the connection and collaboration features of SharePoint Server 2010...
- News items 2009-10-19
- Microsoft preps SQL Server for battle in two enterprise arenas
- Computerworld - Routinely accused of bloating Windows and Office, Microsoft Corp. has acted more like a skinny teenage boy with enterprise apps like SQL Server: desperate to bulk up. King of the middleweight databases, SQL Server has yet to be fully accepted by the big boys, admits Bob Muglia, president...
- News items 2009-11-04
- Microsoft Defends ?Oslo` Move to SQL Server
- Since announcing its plans to fold it's modeling technology, up to now known by the codename "Oslo," into its SQL Server platform, Microsoft has been taking flack from developers complaining of a letdown by the software giant regarding the future of the software giant's modeling strategy. In response, Microsoft defends...
- News items 2009-11-12
- Microsoft to Deliver New SQL Server 2008 R2 Editions
- At the PASS conference, Microsoft announced two new premium editions of SQL Server 2008 R2 - SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter and SQL Server 2008 R2 Parallel Data Warehouse.Microsoft announced it has two new premium editions of SQL Server 2008 R2 in store for users and remains on track to...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Microsoft makes available new high performance Windows Server test build
- Microsoft made available on November 16 a code-complete beta of Windows HPC High Performance Computing Server 2008 R2 to selected testers. The company made the announcement at the Supercomputing 2009 show in Portland, Oreg., where officials said they planned to provide all of the 4,500 or so of the attendees...
- News items 2009-11-16
- SpringSource Launches Developer Edition of tc Server
- SpringSource has announced the release of its SpringSource tc Server Developer Edition, a completely Apache Tomcat-compatible platform that enables developers to debug and improve the performance of their Spring applications.SpringSource has announced the release of its SpringSource tc Server Developer Edition, a completely Apache Tomcat-compatible platform that enables developers to...
- News items 2009-10-19
- HP Unveils Mac Compatible Home Media Server
- Hewlett-Packard on Monday introduced the HP MediaSmart Server, the company's home media server, compatible with both Macs and PCs. The MediaSmart Server allows users to access content like digital music, videos, photos or back-up data from any computer on the network. The server makes the information available over the Internet,...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Microsoft to align BizTalk Server with Azure's AppFabric
- Computerworld - Microsoft Corp. plans to make its Business Process Management BPM software, BizTalk Server, work very closely with the just-announced AppFabric .Net application server within several years. Arriving in beta next year, AppFabric will let developers deploy and manage their .Net applications, whether they're running on-site in Windows Server...
- News items 2009-11-18
- Microsoft probes critical IIS Web server bug
- Computerworld - Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed that it is examining a critical vulnerability in older editions of Internet Information Services IIS server, a day after a hacker posted exploit code to the milw0rm.com site. "Microsoft is investigating new public claims of a possible vulnerability in IIS 5.o and IIS 6.0...
- News items 2009-09-01
- Server Makers Go Retro as Sales Plummet
- There's bleak, and then there's pull-the-covers-over-your-head, tremble-and-hope-it-stops bleak, which is the state in which server manufacturers find themselves. The research outfit IDC has just issued its second-quarter data on the server market, and the results show server sales falling off by 30 percent year-over-year, to $9.8 billion. As it turns...
- News items 2009-09-02
- Microsoft's Top 3 advances in Exchange Server 2010
- By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews The biggest change to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 was supposed to have been the introduction of something called Unified Communications -- the introduction of a singular console for the handling of all forms of digital communication, wrapping...
- News items 2009-11-09
- Newer versions unaffected by latest SQL Server flaw
- This week, Redmond posted a security advisory for Microsoft SQL Server, further detailed in KB article 961040. The good news is that the flaw is only present in older versions: Windows Internal Database SP2, SQL Server 2000 SP4, SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine SP4, SQL Server 2005 SP2, and SQL...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Release 2 CTP Ready to Go Tomorrow
- Microsoft is releasing the community technology preview for SQL Server 2008 R2. The latest version of the flagship database comes with enhancements around SQL Server's management and reporting capabilities.Microsoft is making the first community technology preview of SQL Server 2008 R2 generally available tomorrow. The new version of the flagship database...
- News items 2009-08-11
- Microsoft Downplays SQL Server Database Vulnerability
- Microsoft is disputing the severity of a vulnerability found in its SQL Server database that security researchers say exposes administrative passwords. The vulnerability, uncovered by Sentrigo, can be exploited remotely in SQL Server 2000 and 2005.Microsoft is downplaying a SQL Server security flaw that could be exploited by someone with...
- News items 2009-09-02
- Dr-Synch Version 2.5 for SQL Server 2000
- SQL Server 2000 has become a popular database solution in the last several years. SQL Server is highly scalable, powerful and relatively bug free, and has earned its place as a high end solution. Many organizations run mission-critical applications on SQL Server 2000, which has brought the topic of disaster...
- White papers 2006-08-21
- Microsoft delivers test versions of SQL Server 2008 R2
- The SQL Server team is unleashing the first widespread test builds of the next version of Microsoft's database, a k a SQL Server 2008 R2 (codenamed "Kilimanjaro"). Earlier this year, Microsoft officials said to watch for a Community Technology Preview CTP test build of SQL Server 2008 R2 sometime this...
- News items 2009-08-10
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Rolls Out Worldwide
- Microsoft announced during the Tech-Ed Europe 2009 conference in Berlin that its Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 is now in general release. The latest version of Microsoft?s messaging and collaboration for business includes multiple features designed to save costs, including low-cost storage, integrated archives and speech-to-text previews for voice mail. During...
- News items 2009-11-09
- Zenith Data Systems includes Microsoft Internet Information Server with its Z-SERVER MX departmental server line; Enables businesses to quickly deploy industrial-strength World Wide Web servers
- BILLERICA, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 12, 1996--Setting up an Internet server is often far more difficult than it really has to be. Zenith Data Systems ZDS today announced it will offer an easy-but-powerful Windows NT-based server for the Internet that packages Microsoft's Internet Information Server IIS with its award-winning Z-SERVER MX departmental...
- Research articles 1996-02-12
