Imagine a world without a global notion of time. Now try to find out the flight direction of an airplane with the following information: There's an e-mail from Alice that she saw the plane about two ...

The rapid and unabated growth of so-called "unstructured" data has led research firm Gartner to establish a new Magic Quadrant for distributed file systems and object storage. Such systems seek to ...

Research published in Advances in Computer and Communication establishes frameworks for integrating Role-Based Access Control and Attribute-Based Access Control within large-scale distributed ...

In contrast to centralized systems, distributed software systems add an entire new layer of complexity to the already difficult problem of software design. In spite of that, for a variety of reasons, ...

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What is a distributed system? A distributed system is a collection of independent computers that appear to the user as a single coherent system. To accomplish a common objective, the computers in a ...

As demands in the access and enterprise networking markets increase, communication equipment designers are faced with the challenge of delivering advanced functionality in network equipment that can ...

As modern software systems become more and more complex, gaining observability into how applications perform and what makes them fail is quickly climbing up the priority list. As enterprise technology ...

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