Meenakshisundaram said the client/server analogy to the cloud encompasses dimensions such as communications, deployment, and domain expertise. Cloud is a deployment model.

Client-server networking grew in popularity during the 1990s as personal computers became the alternative to mainframe computers. Client-server networking refers to a computer networking model ...

eWEEK 30: Client/server applications were heavily promoted in the 1990s as an effective way to harness the power of PCs connected to corporate networks. But the model just wasn’t scalable.