A data center is a
centralized location where computer and network equipment is concentrated to
allow large amounts of data to be collected, stored, processed, distributed, or
accessed. They have been around in some form since the advent of computers.
In the days of
room-sized giants, which were early computers, there could be a supercomputer
in the data center. As devices became smaller and cheaper, the need for data
processing began to grow, and grew exponentially, we networked multiple servers
(industrial counterparts of home computers) to improve processing power. .
Connect them to a communications network, allowing people to remotely access
them or information about them. Many of these clustered servers and associated
computers can be housed in one room, an entire building, or a group of
buildings. Today's data centers are likely to have thousands of very powerful
and very small servers running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Data centers are
sometimes called server farms because the servers are centralized and are often
stacked in racks arranged in rows. It provides important services such as data
storage, backup and recovery, data and network management. These centers handle
large-scale operations, such as storing and serving websites, running email and
instant messaging (IM) services, providing applications and cloud storage,
enabling e-commerce transactions, and enhancing the online gaming community.
You can do many other things that you need. From zero and one.
Almost all companies
or governments need their own data center or need access to someone else's data
center. Some built and maintained in-house, some use rental servers in
colocation facilities (also known as Coros), and some use cloud-based public
services on hosts like Amazon, Microsoft, Sony, and Google
Colossi and other
large data centers began to emerge in the late 1990s and early 2000s, sometime
after widespread use of the Internet. The data centers of some large
corporations are distributed throughout the world, meeting the constant need to
access large amounts of information. Today, there are more than 3 million data
centers in different shapes and sizes worldwide.
How Data Centers Work?
Despite the decreasing size, speed and performance of the
hardware, we have become a kind of data intensive use, which generally
increases the demand for processing power, storage space and information. We
are exceeding the capacity of the companies to provide.
Entities that generate or use data include a certain amount
of data, including government agencies, educational institutions,
telecommunications companies, financial institutions, retailers of all sizes,
online information providers, and social media services like Google and
Facebook. Center required. . Lack of fast and reliable access to data may mean
that we are unable to provide critical services or loss of customer
satisfaction and revenue.
All these media must be stored somewhere. And today more and
more things are moving to the cloud. That is, they are accessed through the
cloud provider's host server instead of running or storing it on your home or
work computers. Many companies are migrating professional applications to cloud
services to reduce the cost of running their centralized networks and computer
servers.
The cloud does not mean that applications and data are not
stored on computer hardware. That means someone else is keeping the hardware
and software in a remote location accessible to customers and their clients via
the Internet. And those places are data centers.
