Explain the difference between cloud and traditional datacenters?

[Pallavi_G]

The purpose of traditional and Cloud data center is the same purpose i.e. storage of data.


Only there is difference in the mechanism used for storing the data. In Traditional data center each application has its own infrastructure, so if there are 1000 applications then the requirement would be of 1000 data centers.


Whereas in Cloud data center all the applications are hosted in one common cloud storage which reduces the cost as compared to Traditional data centers.

[SalinaSmith]

Cloud and Data Centers are seem similar to many people but both are different, Cloud is an off-premise form of computing that stores data on the internet and Data center is on-premise hardware that stores data in local organizations network.

[Matt]

I disagree with the definitions of Cloud and Datacenter in the last three posts, but then again I'm probably arguing the point with robots and spammers in this thread.

[Sean9568]

Cloud is an online storage system, whereas data center refers to hardware that stores data within organization's local network. Cloud is accessible from anywhere.

[levis07martin]

Mobile cloud computing uses cloud computing to deliver applications to mobile devices. Also mobile computing is related to the new devices and interfaces like users can access data and information through browsers.

[A_S]

A cloud data center is completely distinct from a traditional data center. There are no similar features between cloud and traditional data cent other than storing data. A cloud Data center is not placed in a particular organization’s office; it’s all online! When your information is stored on cloud servers, it automatically becomes fragmented & duplicated across multiple locations for safe storage.