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Data center. A data center ( American English) [1] or data centre ( Commonwealth English) [2] [note 1] is a building, a dedicated space within a building, or a group of buildings [3] used to house computer systems and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. [4] [5]
Software-defined data center ( SDDC; also: virtual data center, VDC) is a marketing term that extends virtualization concepts such as abstraction, pooling, and automation to all data center resources and services to achieve IT as a service (ITaaS). [1] In a software-defined data center, "all elements of the infrastructure — networking ...
Power usage effectiveness ( PUE) is a ratio that describes how efficiently a computer data center uses energy; specifically, how much energy is used by the computing equipment (in contrast to cooling and other overhead that supports the equipment). PUE is the ratio of the total amount of energy used by a computer data center facility [1] [2] [3 ...
A power distribution unit ( PDU) is a device fitted with multiple outputs designed to distribute electric power, especially to racks of computers and networking equipment located within a data center. [1] Data centers face challenges in power protection and management solutions. This is why many data centers rely on PDU monitoring to improve ...
Google data centers are the large data center facilities Google uses to provide their services, which combine large drives, computer nodes organized in aisles of racks, internal and external networking, environmental controls (mainly cooling and humidification control), and operations software (especially as concerns load balancing and fault tolerance).
A green data center, or sustainable data center, is a service facility which utilizes energy-efficient technologies. They do not contain obsolete systems (such as inactive or underused servers), and take advantage of newer, more efficient technologies. With the exponential growth and usage of the Internet, power consumption in data centers has ...
A colocation center (also spelled co-location, or shortened to colo) or " carrier hotel ", is a type of data centre where equipment, space, and bandwidth are available for rental to retail customers. Colocation facilities provide space, power, cooling, and physical security for the server, storage, and networking equipment of other firms and ...
A network-neutral data center (or carrier-neutral data center) is a data center (or carrier hotel) which allows interconnection between multiple telecommunication carriers and/or colocation providers. Network-neutral data centers exist all over the world and vary in size and power. While some data centers are owned and operated by a ...