Virtual data center, often referred to as cloud-based data center, has been garnering quite a lot of attention these days. While, by its nature, virtual data centers do not stray far from its traditional counterpart in terms of service provided, the difference lies in the fact that it does not come with a physical infrastructure to that of the traditional ones. Yes, virtual data centers are the unique virtualized representation of traditional data centers. Consisting of basic resources such as memory, processor, networking as well as storage, virtual data centers are also equipped with networking components, storage clusters, and servers which reside in the cloud or virtual space and then hosted by a few data centers.
Interesting, isn’t it? While interesting is an understatement, it’s not the reason why more and more enterprises are switching to virtual data centers these days – and what reason is better than getting a …