Distributed computing services provide specialized support for applications that may be physically dispersed across a number of application platforms yet wish to maintain a cooperative processing environment. The classical definition of a computer becomes blurred as the processes that contribute to information processing become distributed across a facility or a network.

Broadly, our goals in distributed computing are:

• Creating greater flexibility by the integration of disparate business and IT processes;
• Reducing costs and increasing responsiveness through automation of the linkages between IT and business processes
• Improving capital and asset utilization through virtualization of resources.