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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] Since IT operations are crucial for business continuity, it ...
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).
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, storage ...
Meet-me room. A meet-me room (MMR) is a place within a colocation center (or carrier hotel) where telecommunications companies can physically connect to one another and exchange data without incurring local loop fees. [1] Services provided across connections in an MMR may be voice circuits, data circuits, or Internet Protocol traffic.
50+ corporations. Website. opencompute.org. The Open Compute Project (OCP) is an organization that facilitates the sharing of data center product designs and industry best practices among companies. [1][2] Founded in 2011, OCP has significantly influenced the design and operation of large-scale computing facilities worldwide. [1]
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 ...
Data center management[1] is the collection of tasks performed by those responsible for managing ongoing operation of a data center. [2] This includes Business service management and planning for the future. Historically, "data center management" was seen as something performed by employees, with the help of tools collectively called data ...
Server room. A server room in Písek, Czech Republic. A server room is a room, usually air-conditioned, devoted to the continuous operation of computer servers. An entire building or station devoted to this purpose is a data center. The computers in server rooms are usually headless systems that can be operated remotely via KVM switch or remote ...