2.3 Traditional Data Centres

Question 1

What are 5 drawbacks of a traditional data centre?

Answer 1

• The amount of capital investment it takes to set up and run a data centre is extremely high.
• Forecasting Demand for a product is Difficult.
• It is slow (sometimes several months) to deploy a new data centre and its servers.
• Maintaining data centres and the servers that comprise it is expensive as it requires dedicated resources and people.
• You own all of the security and compliance burden of each data centre.