What is a Data Center?

[sevitsil]

The data center is the department in an enterprise that houses and maintains back-end information technology (IT) systems and data stores—its mainframes.

[stefijain]

Data center is a usable place that is available for It equipment to provide the space to store their data.

[mikerock]

Data center is a specified space where company can organize IT operation and equipment. Data center would be serves and storage IT operation that run application and store data and content. This might be a simple rack of equipment depending on the operation of the organization.

[ghsoftwares]

A large group of networked computer servers typically used by organizations for the remote storage, processing, or distribution of large amounts of data

[Rinzarajpoot007]

It is a place that houses large numbers of computers network, backup power supplies, security application, air conditioning and more.

[erriche]

look at Wikipedia for more information about Data Centers.

[britnilinda]

The main purpose of a data center is running the applications that handle the core business and operational data of the organization. Such systems may be proprietary and developed internally by the organization, or bought from enterprise software vendors. Such common applications are ERP and CRM systems.

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[alicemaris558]

A data center, or datacenter, often requires extensive redundant or backup power supply systems, cooling systems, redundant networking connections and policy-based security systems for running the enterprise's core applications.

[arunsingh01]

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[jacobsmith1]

A data center is a repository that houses computing facilities like servers, routers, switches and firewalls, as well as supporting components like backup equipment, fire suppression facilities and air conditioning.

[Rackbank]

TechTarget defines a data center as “a centralized repository, either physical or virtual, for the storage, management and dissemination of data and information organized around a particular body of knowledge or pertaining to a particular business.” By this definition, a data center is akin to a network operations center, where automated systems are housed and continuously monitored to ensure operability, reliability and overall performance.

[swlocums]

A data center (sometimes spelled datacenter) is a centralized repository, either physical or virtual, for the storage, management, and dissemination of data and information organized around a particular body of knowledge or pertaining to a particular business.

[swlocums]

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