Why Distribute an ATMI Application Across a Network?

Distributed applications provide several important benefits. Early business applications were developed to run on one large mainframe computer. Because all computing was performed on a single machine, a failure could bring down an entire system. With the increasing popularity of distributed applications, this threat of system failure is declining.

Another advantage is that by distributing an application, you can group parts of an application logically and position these logical groups in the most effective locations. By creating groups of servers, for example, you can partition a large application into separate, business-specific components of manageable size and optimal location.

A distributed application allows you to do the following:

Features of a Distributed Application

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