In distributed architecture, Hardware and software components are located on different platforms across remotely networked systems. Also, several components cooperate with one another over a communication network to achieve a specific objective or goal.

Being discrete, devices coordinate and communicate their actions only bypassing information vital for operations of entire system – Being the primary objective to share the available resources. Resources may be managed by diverse computers at different geographical locations and are accessed by clients, However, appears to its users as a single system which is operating by its own.