Yet they are managed as a single, cohesive system. Unlike centralized or hybrid approaches, distributed cloud treats geographic and architectural diversity as a feature, not a compromise.

How do you effectively build a distributed, enterprise architecture? It's a daunting, if not somewhat nebulous question, akin to asking someone how do you build a house? The answer depends on what ...

In this article, author Juan Pan discusses the data sharding architecture patterns in a distributed database system. She explains how Apache ShardingSphere project solves the data sharding ...

Joanne Hale, A Layered Communication Architecture for the Support of Crisis Response, Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Summer, 1997), pp. 235-255 ...