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The Difference Between Private and Public Cloud

Public clouds are based on shared hardware owned by third parties, ideal for fluctuating demands and scaling easily. Private clouds are dedicated infrastructure hosted on-site or off-site, providing more control and security ideal for larger businesses with strict regulations. Hybrid clouds combine public and private clouds, using public clouds for less sensitive operations and private clouds for critical operations to get flexibility, agility and cost effectiveness.

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The Difference Between Private and Public Cloud

Public clouds are based on shared hardware owned by third parties, ideal for fluctuating demands and scaling easily. Private clouds are dedicated infrastructure hosted on-site or off-site, providing more control and security ideal for larger businesses with strict regulations. Hybrid clouds combine public and private clouds, using public clouds for less sensitive operations and private clouds for critical operations to get flexibility, agility and cost effectiveness.

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The Difference Between Private and

Public Cloud
As your business develops its strategy for implementing a cloud solution, the choice you
face is whether to deploy your infrastructure in a public or private cloud. So what are the
differences between the two? And which is the right solution for your business?

Public Clouds:
These are based on shared physical hardware which is owned and operated by a third-
party provider. Public clouds are ideal for small and medium sized businesses or
businesses that have fluctuating demands. The primary benefits of the public cloud
include the speed with which you can deploy IT resources and the ability to pay only of
the server resources you use. By spreading infrastructure costs across a number of users,
each can take advantage of a low-cost, pay-as-you-go approach to IT provisioning. And,
due to the sheer size of public clouds, you can scale compute power up and down as
business demands, within a matter of minutes.

Private Clouds:
A private cloud is infrastructure dedicated entirely to your business that’s hosted either
on-site or in a service provider’s data center. The private cloud delivers all the agility,
scalability and efficiency of the public cloud, but also provides greater levels of
control and security, making it ideal for larger businesses or those with strict data,
regulation and governance obligations. Another key benefit of private cloud is the
ability to customize the compute, storage and networking components to best suit your
specific IT requirements — something that cannot be achieved so easily in the public
cloud environment.

Hybrid cloud — Getting the Best of Both Worlds


Getting the right cloud solution no longer needs to be a choice of public or private. With
the hybrid cloud you get the best of both.

The hybrid cloud allows you to combine public cloud with private cloud or dedicated
hosting and leverage the best of what each has to offer to meet your needs. Use the public
cloud for non-sensitive operations, the private cloud for business-critical operations, and
incorporate any existing dedicated resources to achieve a highly flexible, highly agile and
highly cost-effective solution.

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