Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Throughout the history of IT, we have witnessed the pendulum swing between centralized and ...

Industrial PCs have been a fixture on the plant floor for decades. But the need to configure, maintain, and secure distributed computing assets can be a hassle. That’s why more and more industrial end ...

The first term used to describe the distribution of multiple computers throughout an organization in contrast to a centralized system. The distributed processing and "distributed computing" terms were ...

As our desktop computers, laptops, mobile devices, etc. stand idly by for a huge portion of the day, the need for computing resources is growing at a fast pace. Large IoT ecosystems, machine learning ...

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 ...

Where we are today is not hybrid cloud rebranded. Hybrid was a transition strategy. Distributed is an entirely new operating environment, where cloud infrastructure and services are physically located ...

Azure Local, powered by Azure Arc, is reshaping the landscape of distributed computing by bringing cloud capabilities to affordable hardware at remote locations. This innovative approach addresses ...