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Bluetooth was originally designed as an industry standard, for cross communication between devices, the idea was to create a common protocol that could connect all common household devices, like laptops, cellphones, music systems, televisions etc. using a single protocol. One of the biggest applications of Bluetooth is the transformation it has bought about, in the way mobile phones send and receive data with each other. Today there is a plethora of devices that can be linked up to a mobile phone using the Bluetooth protocol.

Servers are powerful processes or computers dedicated to managing disk drives or file servers, network traffic or network servers and printers or print servers. PCs or workstations are Clients on which users run applications. For resources, such as files, devices, and even processing power clients rely on servers.

When I first wrote about the LTO format—developed jointly last year by Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Seagate—I was impressed with the Linear Tape Open Ultrium specifications but was skeptical about LTO's ability to penetrate the tape backup market because Quantum's DLT was the standard tape media at the time.