Gone are the days when companies had dedicated data centers or server rooms with racks and racks of servers. Outsourcing the maintenance of infrastructure to a cloud provider has proved beneficial in several ways. Let's see how!
Traditionally, companies built data centers to store sensitive, competitive, and critical information. The facility had to be well protected with both physical and virtual security and access measures. Other running costs included server licenses, hardware costs, higher than normal power consumption, and facility maintenance costs. Usually, such companies also needed to invest in building a disaster recovery center, which served as a secondary backup—a precautionary measure, should the primary data center go down.
Although it seems that having a private data center makes sense for a company, given that it has full control over it, in reality, it is both risky and challenging to safeguard...