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Key Differences between Traditional and Cloud-Based Hardware
The key difference here
is configuration. What type of hardware devices and how they are connected to each other
are essentially what makes the hardware infrastructure for these two concepts different.
The cloud data center is designed to cater to thousands of users at once and will be config-
ured for scalability, which means homogeneous hardware; this makes maintenance easier
considering the scale of the facilities. Traditional on-premises data centers are designed to
cater only to a single organization and its constituents, meaning that it is at a smaller scale,
and the hardware configuration will vary depending on the requirements of the enterprise
applications being supported. But both types of data center will make use of the same basic
hardware, i.e., the same types of CPU, RAM, storage disks, and networking equipment like
switches and hubs.
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