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Data Center
28 June 2023 /
- A data center is a building or portion of a building whose primary function is to house a computer room and its support areas.
- The main functions of a data center are to centralize and consolidate information technology (IT) resources, house network operations, facilitate e-business and to provide uninterrupted service to mission-critical data processing operations.....
- Data centers can be classified as either enterprise data centers or co-location (co-lo)/hosting (public) data centers.
- Enterprise data centers are privately owned and operated by private corporate, institutional or government entities. Enterprise data centers support internal data transactions and processing, as well as Web Services and are supported and managed by internal IT support.
- Co-lo data centers are owned and operated by Telco’s or unregulated competitive service providers and offer outsourced IT services. Services that data centers typically provide include Internet access, application or Web hosting, content distribution, file storage and backup, database management, fail-safe power, HVAC controls, security and high-performance cabling infrastructure.