{"id":11786,"date":"2011-11-15T11:22:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T11:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/virtual-private-data-center\/"},"modified":"2017-01-18T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T15:05:07","slug":"virtual-private-data-center","status":"publish","type":"definition","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/definition\/26815\/virtual-private-data-center-vpdc","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Private Data Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"what_does_virtual_private_data_center_mean\">What Does Virtual Private Data Center Mean?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A virtual private data center (VPDC) is a type of cloud service model in which a private cloud vendor provides the entire infrastructure over the cloud. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tVPDCs are generally huge cloud offerings, engulfing a suite of enterprise-level IT resources bundled together and provided over Internet to different clients within an unshared or private cloud model. A complete VPDC solution can contain processing, storage, infrastructure, and application and data center management software.\n<\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"techopedia_explains_virtual_private_data_center\">Techopedia Explains Virtual Private Data Center<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>A virtual private data center can be thought of as the amalgamation of almost all the different cloud services available and provided as a single solution, forming a virtual data center powered by the cloud. In theory, a VPDC solution contains all the core elements to operate an enterprise-level data center. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tA VPDC helps an organization avoid the massive capital operational costs incurred for an in-house data center, while maintaining privacy and control over their cloud data center through service level agreements. 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