The main benefit of a distributed system is that it can outperform a single computer system in terms of performance, reliability and availability. It involves sharing resources and processing ...

Almost 30 years ago on August 25, 1988, Schwartz filed a patent for a “multilevel distributed computer system” that would “preferably” run on “personal computers.” The technology was ...

Getting the most from performance analysis of distributed computer systems Your email has been sent Tasked with setting up a performance test for an n-tier distributed system? Before you get ...

A distributed system is comprised of multiple computing devices interconnected with one another via a loosely-connected network. Almost all computing systems and applications today are distributed in ...

When the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated in early 2020, people all over the globe were affected. In this disruption, ...

Developing a thorough test plan and benchmarks for a distributed system takes careful planning. Follow this advice on tracking down bottlenecks and analyzing performance results. This is the ...

There are several reasons why a distributed computer system could have unavoidable Byzantine failures, and they are not always coordinated malicious attacks. From a software defect to a hardware ...

A new Windows NTLM relay attack called DFSCoerce has been discovered that uses MS-DFSNM, Microsoft's Distributed File System, to completely take over a Windows domain.