#Why can NetApp scale horizontally to the cloud? And what does it mean that you can scale horizontal

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https://spot.io/blog/horizontal-vs-vertical-scaling-in-the-cloud/
orizontal and Vertical Scaling Strategies

The cloud has dramatically simplified these scaling problems by making it easier to scale up or down and out or in. Primarily, there are two ways to scale in the cloud: horizontally or vertically.

When you scale horizontally, you are scaling out or in, which refers to the number of provisioned resources. When you scale vertically, it’s often called scaling up or down, which refers to the power and capacity of an individual resource.

Spot.io
Horizontal vs. Vertical Scaling in the Cloud

Among the many reasons to make the move to the cloud, scalability is one of the most compelling. What is scalability in cloud computing? Scalability is

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So it's the difference of upgrading existing hardware vs. adding more clusters. Think of the pets vs. cattle/herd analogy commonly used in IT.

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But the difference is, you can scale up on-prem, local "cloud", or on GCP/AWS/Azure. You can launch as many CVO instances as you want too.