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Leonardo Santos
Leonardo Santos

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Before Cloud Computing

Before cloud computing, companies had many difficulties regarding infrastructure and management, for example:

  • High infrastructure costs

Companies needed to invest a lot of capital in servers, data centers, hardware and software and also in the maintenance of this equipment and occasionally replacement.

data centers: buildings or physical installation that houses IT infrastructure for development

  • Lack of scalability

Before meeting growing demands was difficult and very expensive, adding servers or increasing storage capacity required weeks or months or significant investments

  • Maintenance Complexity

Data center maintenance required specialized teams to manage hardware and software, these employees had to be physically present on site or unreliable remote access solutions and this took a lot of time.

  • Limited Backup and Recovery Capacity

Local backups are subject to physical defects and local disasters, such as fires and heavy rains, which could cause irreparable data loss.

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