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Difference Between Cloud and Traditional Datacenters

Following are the differences in between cloud and traditional data centers –

Cloud Data Center

Key Features

1. Storage of data on Internet
2. No equipment required
3. Homogeneous hardware environment
4. Utilizes standard management tools
5. Simple workloads
6. Standard software architecture
7. Cloud data centers only requires 20% cost for cooling and power distribution, and around 6% for operation. Apart from this, about 48% cost spent on the maintenance
8. Independent platform
9. Pay per use
10. Automated Recovery

Traditional Data Center

Key Features

1. Stores data in the local network of organization
2. Needs knowledge and specialized equipment
3. Heterogeneous hardware environment
4. Make use of various management tools
5. Complex workloads
6. A combination of altered software architectures
7. Running and maintaining traditional data center is quite expensive as different apps needs different data center

• This kind of data center needs around 42% cost for hardware maintenance, power supply, networking, and disaster recovery arrangements

• Around 40% is utilized for air conditioning, labor costs, and heating. Apart from this, around 80% spent on the maintenance

8. Renting as per physical machines
9. Requires software and hardware maintenance
10. In a scenario of failure needs semi-automated repair
11. These type of data centers are very much secured as they are connected to only local network. Therefore, only company’s authenticated users can access them. Hence, they are more secured.