Transparency in Distributed Systems

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Transparency in Distributed Systems By Sudheer R Mantena Abstract The present day network architectures are becoming more and more complicated due to heterogeneity of the network components and mainly due to the extensive use of the Internet services. For instance a company may have many branches operating at different geographical locations and may need to interact with all other branches for day-to-day activities. This gives rise to Distributed computing environment where the resources are located at different locations and sharing of the resources such as printers, files, web pages or database records.

Graceful growth and evolution is an important requirement for most enterprises. A system should also be capable of scaling down to small environments where required, and be space and/or time efficient as required. The best-distributed system example implementing this transparency is the World Wide Web.

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