Distributed computing is an emerging technology trend that attempts to provide a commodity based and infinitely scalable computing environment. As bandwidth and networks continue to grow exponentially, enterprise organizations are demanding new capabilities to maximize the computing capacity for large scale applications. Multiple data centers, a messaging backbone, and complex event processing provide the foundation to implement these capabilities within a widearea network. The messaging backbone provides the asynchronous transport to connect geographically dispersed data centers and the underlying business services. Complex event processing provides an intelligent approach to monitor, track and provision the distribution of processing. This paper focuses on industry best practices for employing a global messaging solution to federate geographically dispersed processing centers hosting large numbers of resource intensive services.

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