Business Benefits And Management Problems Of Client Server Networks

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What are the business benefits and management problems of client/server networks? Network computing? Peer-to-peer networks?

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**Benefits of client/server computing include:

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*Clients (end users) can perform some or most of the processing of their business applications.

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LAN servers can share application processing, manage work group collaboration, and control common hardware, software, and databases.

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Data can be completely processed locally, where most input and output must be handled.

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Provides access to the workstations and servers in other networks.

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Computer processing is more tailored to the needs of the end users.

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Increases information processing efficiency and effectiveness, as users are more responsible for their own application systems.

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Allows large central-site computers to handle the jobs they do best - such as high-volume transaction processing,

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communications network security

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and control, and maintenance and control of large corporate databases.

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Clients at local sites can access the corporate superservers to receive corporate wide management information or

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transmit summary transaction data reflecting local site activities.

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**Management Problems:

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As computing power becomes distributed and interconnected throughout organizations by networked computer systems taking the form of client/server networks, management issues will increase. Problems such as the protection, access, and control of corporate data from within and outside the organization will increase dramatically.

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**Benefits of network computing include:

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Many of the benefits listed above for client/server computing can also be included in this answer.

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Communications, distance education, distributed computing, e-commerce, email, information processing, telecommuting are a few of the benefits that can be listed.

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Security and privacy issues are a major challenge.

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***Benefits of peer-to-peer computing include:

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*Peer-to-peer is a network architecture that gives equal power to all computers on the network; used primarily in small networks.

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*P2P is a form of distributed processing, where individual computers can share data, disk space, and even processing power for a variety of tasks when computers can share data, disk space, and even processing power for a variety of tasks when they are lined in a network, including the Internet.

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*P2P computing puts processing power back on users’ desktops, linking these computers so that they can share files or processing tasks.

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*P2P involves two distinct types of technology: the sharing of digital files and data between two separate computers, and the sharing of different CPU cycles.

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The P2P model stands in contrast to the network computing model because processing power resides only individual desktops, and these computers work together without a server or any central controlling authority.

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It has been estimated that most companies and individuals – use less than 25 percent of their processing and storage capacity. P3P computing tabs the unused disk space or processing power on PC or workstation networks for large computing tasks that can now only be performed by large expensive server computers or even supercomputers.

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The lack of a central authority is what landed Napster in court. This could also pose a major threat for any company were there is major concern for copyright infringements.

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