What is a cloud data center?

While most modern cloud solutions are delivered by a third-party over the internet, it’s not uncommon for some companies to rely on a model in which their organization has its very own data center to serve as their private cloud. Despite the differences in ownership, these cloud data centers still serve the same basic function as third-party data centers. The only difference is that third-party data centers are located off-site (sometimes across multiple locations).

How cloud data centers work

Cloud data centers rely on virtualization and software-defined technologies to pool physical resources and deliver them as on-demand services. Customers can provision storage, compute, and networking resources without owning or managing the underlying hardware.

Key characteristics include:

• Scalability: Resources can scale up or down based on demand.

• Redundancy: Data and workloads are replicated across systems to reduce downtime risk.

• High availability: Infrastructure is designed to minimize service disruptions.

• Global reach: Multiple locations enable lower latency and geographic resilience.

Cloud data center vs. traditional data center

Traditional data center:

• Owned and managed in-house

• Fixed hardware capacity

• Large upfront capital expense

• Manual infrastructure management

Cloud data center:

• Operated by a cloud provider

• Elastic, on-demand scaling

• Operating expense model

• Automated provisioning and management

For many organizations, cloud data centers reduce infrastructure complexity while improving agility and cost efficiency.

Stay connected with Wasabi’s hot cloud data centers

Cloud data centers offer a convenient alternative to traditional data centers by allowing businesses to store their growing data and applications off-premises. To further simplify things, all the data and applications are hosted by third-party cloud services providers - such as Wasabi. In the case of Wasabi, customer data is deployed in 100% secure and redundant data centers. Wasabi’s customers have full control over which Wasabi data centers across the US, EU, and APAC to store their data in. Wasabi’s users can easily connect to any of our hot cloud storage locations around the world using a variety of high-speed connectivity options.

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