You might be sharing a physical server with others, but from your point of view it looks like a dedicated server.

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Virtualization DOES work, but in a narrow sense: if you need a dedicated server, not so much for power as for security, data integrity, and the like, you can farm out a VPS a lot cheaper than you can farm out a whole machine.

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Huang used an iPad and MacBook Air to access rich computer-aided design files and special effects software that typically require a burly graphics processor running on a dedicated workstation or server.

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That went against our plan to keep this system around for a long time and eventually place it in our AV rack as a dedicated PVR and file server.

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Open source software such as Apache Web server and the Linux server operating system have become popular systems to run not only on network servers, but also on server appliances (servers dedicated to single tasks such as e-mail and Web site hosting).

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Enterprise servers, the kind server that dominates IT department purchasing today, have dedicated storage and data center network access on each motherboard.

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Those four include a 3D set, a 4K2K version that upcoverts 1080p to 3840 x 2160 resolution, a 46-inch model integrating its CELL BOX dedicated TV tuner and HDD, and a 37-inch that works as a home network server.

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