The IoT cloud

Before we go into the details of the IoT cloud, let's first understand the difference between a data center and the cloud.

Data center and the cloud

Traditionally, organizations hosted their IT workloads and systems either in data centers that were on-premises (in-house) or off-premises (off-house) and supported by internal infrastructure teams or third parties or in external data centers supported and maintained by external third parties altogether.

Running and maintaining a data center is not an easy task; if you run a data center on your own, then you will need to deal with things such as finding suitable buildings or data center facilities to host your servers and network infrastructure, power supply and consumption, physical security, and governmental regulations.

From a business point of view, running and maintaining a data center is a business domain in itself. So, the question will be, as a company working in the agriculture, transportation,...