Wylie Wong is a freelance journalist who specializes in business, technology and sports. He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Schools take different approaches to ...

Old computer systems were very easy to understand. You would simply enter data into your workstation and it would be fed to the mainframe computer. Called a master/slave system, the mainframe master ...

What is an app? Most people think of them as the little, self-contained bits of software on our phones. They have shiny icons, and we get them through app stores. Sometimes they are useful. Often they ...

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IBM was expected to announce today a software strategy for corporate desktop personal computers and hand-held devices -- one that is firmly anchored in the company's strength in data centers. The IBM ...

Old models of computing always tend to linger too long, but client-server was based on a fallacy -- and needs to go away sooner rather than later I write this week from IBM’s Insight conference in Las ...

NComputing is unveiling today a computer which costs just $200 but acts like a full-fledged Windows PC for the enterprise. The L300 — the latest in a series of models — is a little box that connects ...

“If you were supposed to understand it, we wouldn’t call it code.” — from a Federal Express promotion, reported by IS Survivalist Matthew Persico Imitation, I’m told, is the sincerest form of flattery ...

Today NComputing – the leading Desktop Virtualization Company – announces the launch of two new products, vSpace Server 8.3 and the L350 thin client, adding to its already comprehensive solution-set ...

When we first started evangelizing the how-to’s of rightsizing, downsizing, and capsizing back in 1993, we spoke about our #1 priority, a client/server production acceptance process. It was, and still ...

The Defense Department is turning to the cloud in expectation it will rain down greater computing efficiency. The Pentagon’s strategy seeking to clarify the transition, which was released in July, has ...