What is a distributed cloud? It is an infrastructure with substantially distributedcomputation and storage resources. A CDN would not count as DC since they only servetraffic and provide no to limited possibilities of running compute jobs / programmability.It is all about latency. Latency makes nodes different from each other.What is the differences between traditional means of computation and distributed cloudcomputing? The cloud should simplify approaches.A lot of research is needed to meet performance criteria / SLAs in practice. There is noone button to be clicked to instantiate a cloud app that meets specified criteria.The motivation for cloud computing is driven by costs. Distributed cloud computingoffers redundancy and reliability. In addition it provides instant fail-overs by havingremote replicas that can be booted up in immediately increase of failures.n-line storage