server

(noun)

A computer or a program which provides services to other programs or users, either in the same computer or over a computer network.

Related Terms

  • cloud
  • customer relationship management

Examples of server in the following topics:

  • Introduction to Fundamentals

    • (www.epa.gov) A recent IBM study dug even deeper, concluding that less than 4% of the energy going into a modern server farm actually processes data; 40% is needed to cool the room where the servers are located, another 40% is used to cool the interior of the machines, and over 16% is used to keep the servers idling in case a sudden increase in processing occurs.
    • MA, 2009) This means that 96% of the costs of operating a server area are used to perform activities that are unrelated to data processing.
    • For example, Yahoo saves 60% of its electricity costs by opening the doors and windows where its servers are located and letting the hot air out.
  • Behavior Modification

    • A server might be motivated to perform better after receiving higher tips for exceptional service.
    • On the other hand, a server might be motivated to perform better after his or her boss received negative feedback from an unhappy customer.
    • For example, a restaurant manager might require the server who makes the most mistakes (such as mixing up orders) to pick up the least desirable shifts.
  • What is operations management?

    • In another example, the owners of a restaurant must make important decisions regarding the location, layout, and seating capacity of the restaurant, the hiring, training, and scheduling of chefs and servers, the suppliers of fresh food at the right prices, and the purchase of stoves, refrigerators, and other food preparation equipment.
  • Trends in Advertising

    • With the advent of the ad server, marketing through Internet opened new frontiers for advertisers with the "dot-com" boom of the 1990s.
    • With the advent of the ad server, marketing through the Internet opened new frontiers for advertisers and contributed to the "dot-com" boom of the 1990s.
  • Structure of Corporations

    • ., the Printing & Multifunction division, the Handheld Devices division, the Servers division (mini and mainframe computers), et cetera -- all use the HP brand name.
  • Types of Networks

    • SANs are primarily used to make storage devices, such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes, accessible to servers so that the devices appear as locally-attached devices to the operating system.
    • A large corporation which has many locations may have a backbone network that ties all of these locations together -- for example, if a server cluster needs to be accessed by different departments of a company which are located at different geographical locations.
  • The Fine Art of Complaining

    • You submitted your name, mailing address, and credit card number to Acme Ink's secure server and began waiting for a big box containing your five-year supply of printer cartridges.
  • Consumerization of IT

    • Among the major changes are reliance on low cost, commodity servers, N+1 system redundancy, and largely unmanned data center operations.
  • Types of Advertising

    • Online ads are delivered by an ad server.
  • Moving forward with information systems

    • They have developed so much expertise in managing server farms (i.e. data centers) that they now sell hardware capacity on-demand to other companies.
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