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Understanding private clouds

Understanding private clouds

- First, for most of these cloud deployment types, there are separate courses that you can find here on that specific topic. This includes public clouds, private clouds, and multi-cloud deployments. So if you want to take your understanding of these to the next level, we suggest you go there next. As stated in the last video, private clouds exist on hardware, such as processing servers and storage servers that you physically own. Thus, it's a cloud that's private to you. They include a private cloud system. For example, OpenStack, which is an open source personal cloud software package. They run on traditional servers in the data center and connect to a conventional network. Private cloud users use this network to access the resources on the private cloud. Private clouds also have their advantages and disadvantages. Let's take a look at both. Some of the advantages include the ability to control the physical servers that store and process data critical to your business. They also…

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