[Term of the Day]: Distributed Cloud

[Term of the Day]: Distributed Cloud

Term of the Day 
 

β€œDistributed Cloud” 

 

Definition β€” What is Distributed Cloud? 


The term Distributed Cloud refers to public cloud services dispersed across various geographic locations. Many organizations due to several security reservations usually opt for a packaged Hybrid cloud model which is a combination of public and private computing. It’s convenient, gives more control and responsibility to the customer in terms of operation while skill, investment, and maintenance are all taken care of by the public cloud provider. The Distributed Cloud is the next generation of cloud computing that offers cloud computing benefits along with location-dependency, it is an extension of public cloud infrastructure that can be deployed not only on your cloud provider's infrastructure but also at an on-prem location like a data center, another cloud providers' public cloud, a colocation data center or at edge locations. All of these deployments across the various environments are managed from a single control plane.

 

An example of a distributed cloud is a content delivery network (CDN), which is a geographically dispersed network infrastructure. It is designed for the optimized and fast delivery of content (most often video or audio) to users in different locations, significantly reducing download speed. But distributed clouds are not only beneficial for creators and providers of media content. They can be applied in other areas of business, from shipping to sales. A distributed cloud opens a business opportunity to implement and manage applications in the environment that suits your organization best. This type of computing fixes any errors that are revealed during the work of multi-cloud environments without stopping the entire process.


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