Though not all peer-to-peer applications are evil, they are frequently recreational in nature. As such, they tend to generate network traffic that businesses often like to limit, usually by means of ...

Cloud computing is the new darling of enterprise computing, but not every enterprise needs to use or pay for the cloud. In many cases, peer-to-peer computing works better and is less expensive because ...

Anomali Labs has found a new kind of malware(they call it IPStorm) that is controlled by peer-to-peer (p2p) communications rather than by a client-server model. The ...

Overlay networks and peer-to-peer (P2P) systems form a cornerstone of modern distributed computing, offering resilient, scalable frameworks for resource sharing and content distribution. By creating a ...

Why it matters: Users with multiple computers have probably needed to install much of the same software and perhaps the same games across all systems, drastically increasing bandwidth usage. Valve ...