Disadvantages to a Distributed System

Disadvantages to a distributed system Name Corse Lecturer Date Ever since the evolution of man, there has been technology. In fact, the making of tools which most could be referred to as the beginning of human culture but this has been a strong force in the expansion of civilization. In today`s world, technology has become a complex social venture that include design, finance, manufacture as well maintenance. Technology have brought advantages to many as it has made it possible to the thing that could be seen as impossible for many years as well making tedious work easy and professional. Distributed system which refers to a collection of autonomous computers which are connected through a network and distributed middleware to enable other computers to coordinate their activities and share the resources of the system (Banks, 2001). This enables users to perceive the system as a single, integrated computing facility. Though distributed system has many definitions, one can also define it as a collection of independent computers that appear to users of the system a single coherent system and this proves and shows the advantages of technology as many government organizations use these systems. Though everything has its merits and demerits, the advantages of distributed systems overwhelmed its disadvantages as the system has made it possible to ease the task using single and small computers. The systems are different since there are the distributed systems and the centralized systems. On the centralized systems, the software runs on a single computer, all resources are accessible; they have a single point of control, single point of failure and just one component with non-autonomous parts. Well, when it comes to distributed system characteristics, there are multiple autonomous components, the components are limited to some extent since they are not shared by all users, and they have multiple points of control as well multiple points of failure and software runs in concurrent processes on dissimilar processors. For these reasons there have emerged the advantages like speed, economic, reliability, incremental growth as well inherent distribution (Carver, 1993). These have made the work easy and systematic and still the reason to why banking and government places have made it their option since its more transparency and these helps in fighting corruption and avoiding losses in many organizations. The other reasons are due to its performance, scalability, reliability and its openness. Though distributed system has a common goal in an organization, they are crucial provided the organization considers the benefit to business operation. Even if the merits could outfit demerits, the limitation of distributed system has its variety. Safety been a prominent feature is not well manipulated in the distributed system since the system can be accessed by d...