UOP POS355 Week 4 Discussion latest

POS355 Introduction to Operating Systems

Week 4 Discussion

Distributed Computing

Research examples related to current models in distributed computing. Uncover how they work and are applied in a business setting.

Share your findings with the class.

Discuss the benefits of the client-server architecture to a business.

Include the functionality that a businesses might be giving up if distributed computing was not an option.

Respond to a minimum of two of your peers.

Supporting Activity: Virtualization

What experiences have you had with virtualization in the past? What are the benefits of using virtualization? How is it achieved? What effects would implementing virtualization have on an organization?

Supporting Activity: Fault Tolerance

What are the multiple aspects of a system that fault tolerance should address? What are some of the methods used to achieve fault tolerance? How would you make a choice between them?