The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. We've heard a lot about network functions virtualization (NFV) moving functions onto servers, but there ...

Distributed transactions are one of the more powerful and important functions within SQL Server. A distributed transaction is just like any other transaction within the SQL Server database, with a ...

A new concept with old roots has started to come to the fore on the Internet: federation. Instead of a centralized system, typically run as the equivalent of a single giant database by a company with ...

The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...

Imagine the Internet had begun its life as a proprietary network from a major software vendor rather than evolved as a distributed network shared by researchers. It’s a future that almost came to pass ...

HP's new Proliant server mixes processing, networking, and storage units to optimize performance of Hadoop and the OpenStack cloud OS Hewlett-Packard is taking a step away from traditional server ...

It's rare to see an enterprise that relies solely on centralized computing. But there are nevertheless still many organizations that do keep a tight grip on their internal data center and eschew any ...

In conjunction with the rollout of its next-generation .Net Framework 4.0 release, Microsoft is readying a new distributed application server, ""=""> Dublin -- a first Community Technology Preview ...

Is it possible to use linked services in MSSQL Server and execute queries if the Distributed Transaction Coordinator is not enabled?<BR><BR><BR><BR>Maybe this should be in the NT forum, but I thought ...