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  • Symantec's Enterprise Vault (EV) is as full-featured product in the enterprise space as you're likely to find, offering n-tier architecture, a very sophisticated feature set, superb expandability and integration with other Symantec e-mail security, storage and backup products.

    Symantec: Top-of-the-line feature set for the largest enterprises Logan G. Harbaugh 2010

  • Based on the catalog of prefabricated servers and “constellations” of servers that make up an n-tier application (e.g., a web-based application driven off a specific relational database platform), a 3Tera-equipped service provider could be considered both an IaaS and a PaaS player.

    Cloud Computing’s Three-Horse Race 2009

  • Along with all that functionality comes complexity due to the n-tier structure that stores data in a SQL database and provides separate engines for different functions, allowing the archiving system to be spread over several hardware servers if desired to provide the greatest possible performance.

    Symantec: Top-of-the-line feature set for the largest enterprises Logan G. Harbaugh 2010

  • Unlike the other n-tier apps, installing all the applications on the same hardware as the Exchange server is not supported (the others don't recommend this, but allow it for smaller setups and pilot projects).

    MetaLogix: Full-featured, enterprise-scale alternative to Symantec Logan G. Harbaugh 2010

  • Experience delivering wide variety of software solutions including: web-based, Internet, intranet, c/s and n-tier architecture solutions. privacy and protection, when applying to a job online:

    News - chicagotribune.com 2011

  • Built on stateless n-tier architecture, Orion is a

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  • Must have hands on knowledge of in scalable n-tier web applications and standards

    News - chicagotribune.com 2011

  • Access is not a suitable client for Web or n-tier applications that require a separate data access layer, although it can be used in conjunction with other clients, such as ASP.NET.

    Site Home Bill Ramos 2011

  • Unlike Access, LightSwitch applications are built using well-known patterns and best practices such as n-tier application layering and MVVM, as well as technologies such as Entity Framework and RIA Services.

    Site Home thebeebs 2011

  • This technique is sometimes used when updating an entity with values obtained from a service call or a client in an n-tier application.

    Site Home dpblogs 2011

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