DISTRIBUTED CLOUD Distributed cloud enables a geographically distributed, centrally managed distribution of public cloud services optimized for performance, compliance, and edge computing. How distributed cloud WORKS? You may have heard of distributed computing, in which application components are spread across different networked computers, and communicate with one another through messaging or APIs, with the goal of improving overall application performance or maximize computing efficiency. Distributed cloud goes a giant step further by distributing a public cloud provider's entire compute stack to wherever a customer might need it on premises in the customer's own data center or private cloud, or off premises in one or more public cloud data centers that may or may not belong to the cloud provider. In effect, distributed cloud extends the provider's centralized cloud with geographically distributed micro cloud satellites. The cloud provider retains central control over the operations, updates, governance, security and reliability of all distributed infrastructure. And the customer accesses everything the centralized cloud services, and the satellites wherever they are located as a single cloud and manages it all from a single control plane. In this way, as industry analyst Gartner puts it, distributed cloud fixes with hybrid cloud and hybrid multicloud breaks. Use Case for DISTRIBUTED CLOUD Distributed cloud and edge computing support everything from simplified multicloud management, to improved scalability and development velocity, to deployment of state of the art automation and decision support applications and functionality. Improved hybrid cloud/multicloud visibility and manageability Efficient, cost effective scalability and agility Easier industry or localized regulatory compliance Faster content delivery IoT, (AI) and machine learning applications Scalablity and Flexiablity Challenges with DISTRIBUTED CLOUD Managing an enterprise using a multi site cloud deployment has its challenges including: Bandwidth Security Data Protection FURTHER READING The implementation of distributed cloud could be merged with multiple new age technologies like, blockchian and AI. There is a post on this please read this. There was an article published in FORBES MAGAZINE, this article put emphasis on distributed cloud and the things which could be changed with the implementation of this sort within cloud industry