Thursday, 1 January 2015

Basic Networking Questions and Answers 5

If the bulk of the application runs on the Client side, then it is Fat clients. It is used for decision support and personal software.
If the bulk of the application runs on the Server side, then it is Fat servers. It tries to minimize network interchanges by creating more abstract levels of services.
Horizontal scaling means adding or removing client workstations with only a slight performance impact. Vertical scaling means migrating to a larger and faster server machine or multiservers.
Groupware addresses the management of semi-structured information such as text, image, mail, bulletin boards and the flow of work. These Client/Server systems have people in direct contact with other people.
General middleware
Service-specific middleware.
File servers
Database servers Transaction servers Groupware servers Object servers Web servers.
·         StumbleUpon
·         Digg
·         Delicious
·         Twitter
·         FaceBook
·         LinkedIn
·         Google
·         Yahoo
·         MySpace
·         Tell Your Friend

File servers are useful for sharing files across a network. With a file server, the client passes requests for file records over network to file server.
Database Servers
TP Monitors
Groupware
Distributed Objects
Intranets.
Clients and Servers are separate logical entities that work together over a network to accomplish a task. Many systems with very different architectures that are connected together are also called Client/Server.
Client/Server applications development framework.
Firewalls of protection.
High availability.
Load balancing.
MOM integration.
Scalability of functions.
Reduced system cost.

Extended services - These are add-on modular software components that are layered on top of base service. 

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