On the other hand, a cloud system is scalable to your business needs. It has potentially unlimited capacity, based on your vendor's offerings and service plans. One disadvantage of the cloud is that you will not have as much control as you would a data center, since a third party is managing the system. Furthermore, unless you have a private cloud within the company network, you will be sharing resources with other cloud users in your provider's public cloud. - See more at: http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/4982-cloud-vs-data-center.html#sthash.n9EYWCiG.dpuf