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- Vertical scalability is the ability to increase the capacity of existing hardware or software by adding resources - for example, adding processing power to a server to make it faster. On the other hand, horizontal scalability is the ability to connect multiple entities so that they work as a single logical unit.

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05 Jun 2007

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