Traditional data centers and cloud

Question

Explain the difference between the traditional data centers and the cloud.

Answer 1

Cloud computing utilizes the concept of data center since the data center is based upon the tradition one thus the difference between them are listed as follows:

a) Cost of the traditional data center is higher, because of the heating issues and other hardware/software related issues however this is not the case along with the cloud computing infrastructure.

b) It gets scaled when the demand rises. Most of the cost is being spent over the maintenance being carried out on the data centers, however the cloud platform need minimum maintenance and not very expert hand in order to handle them.