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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 ...
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 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 ...
The IAD71 Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia, US, on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. Amazon.com Inc. plans to spend almost $150 billion in the coming 15 years on data centers, giving ...
A data center is a pool of resources (computational, storage, network) interconnected using a communication network. [1] [2] A data center network (DCN) holds a pivotal role in a data center, as it interconnects all of the data center resources together. DCNs need to be scalable and efficient to connect tens or even hundreds of thousands of ...
A modular data center connected to the power grid at a utility substation. HP Performance Optimized Datacenter, model 240a. A modular data center system is a portable method of deploying data center capacity. A modular data center can be placed anywhere data capacity is needed. Modular data center systems consist of purpose-engineered modules ...
Data center services. Data center services encompass all of the services and facility-related components or activities that support the implementation, maintenance, operation, and enhancement of a data center, [1] which is an environment that provides processing, storage, networking, [2] management and the distribution of data within an ...