The AMD Opteron 3000 series offering is designed for hosting customers who require dedicated servers for their customers.

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Mahajan said that relying on databases and dedicated servers would have restricted the user growth rate, since these resources would have been overwhelmed.

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For dedicated servers, it is a snap.

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Have servers dedicated to the vanilla game and have servers that allow the use of mods and hacks.

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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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We are now dedicated to updating our original servers so that those of you who have been playing these past few days can get the benefits on servers where your cities are played.

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Fujitsu's contribution to exploring the final frontier consists of 35 PRIMERGY x86 servers, tied together with a dedicated (astronomy-centric) computational unit.

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As public clouds continue to grow, the opportunity to transform companies providing dedicated hosting, content delivery or front-end Web servers are also growing.

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At first, companies wanted merely to place their servers with their telecoms carrier, in order to have dedicated access to the Internet.

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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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