Cloud Computing vs. Traditional IT Structures: What's Best For Your Business?

When deciding between cloud computing and traditional IT infrastructures for your chip development, you should consider several factors. Scalability, reliability, security, cost-efficiency, and control can all affect your design process.

Below are the pros and cons of cloud computing vs. traditional IT infrastructure.

Pros

Scalability. The cloud offers much more scalability than traditional data centers do. On the cloud, you have access to nearly unlimited storage space and server resources. Depending on the size of your workload, you can scale your cloud servers up or down. You also have the ability to customize the environment and scale to meet your specific needs.

Resiliency. By design, the cloud hosts information and applications on distributed servers that are all connected, so they work together as one. This architecture eliminates single points of failure, which in turn make the data and applications in the cloud more resilient. You also have much more storage space and computing power in the cloud, which allows for faster software and apps.

Management. The storage provider handles hosting in the cloud. Additionally, cloud vendors manage infrastructure. They maintain all of the hardware and ensure smooth operations of the underlying infrastructure. They also keep security measures in place so everything runs smoothly.

Cost. Cloud computing cuts the need for maintaining your own IT infrastructure. Everything is available as a service. For example, with the cloud, you won’t require expensive hardware or backup solutions, as both are available as part of the cloud service offering. Service providers also usually have much larger infrastructures than you would have in-house. The cloud can significantly expand your computing resources while reducing your capital outlay.

Both cloud computing and traditional IT infrastructure face their own set of challenges. But when it comes to developing chips, Synopsys has you covered either way. We have industry-leading on-premises and cloud-based tools to help you meet your evolving business demands and sustain your workflow.

Synopsys, EDA, and the Cloud

Synopsys is the industry’s largest provider of electronic design automation (EDA) technology used in the design and verification of semiconductor devices, or chips. With Synopsys Cloud, we’re taking EDA to new heights, combining the availability of advanced compute and storage infrastructure with unlimited access to EDA software licenses on-demand so you can focus on what you do best – designing chips, faster. Delivering cloud-native EDA tools and pre-optimized hardware platforms, an extremely flexible business model, and a modern customer experience, Synopsys has reimagined the future of chip design on the cloud, without disrupting proven workflows.

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