How does Data Center serve the Campus?
“One of the internet’s strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.” ~Jared Sandberg
What is a Data Center?
A data center is a facility that centralizes an organization’s shared IT operations and equipment for the purposes of storing, processing, and disseminating data and applications. Because they house an organization’s most critical and proprietary assets, data centers are vital to the continuity of daily operations. Consequently, the security and reliability of data centers and their information are among any organization’s top priorities.
The Role of the Data Center
Data centers are an integral part of the enterprise, designed to support business applications and provide services such as:
- Data storage, management, backup and recovery
- Productivity applications, such as email
- High-volume e-commerce transactions
- Powering online gaming communities
- Big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence
A data center can be classified into three categories as following:
- Networking: Interconnections between data center components and to the outside world, including routers, switches, application delivery controllers, and more
- Compute: The memory and processing power to run the applications, generally provided by high-end servers
- Storage: Important enterprise data is generally housed in a data center, on media ranging from tape to solid-state drives, with multiple backups
So, How does Data Center serves?
The data stored in data centers are stored in form of a solid-state device. This SSD access the internal storage of the server. The server is a powerful computer whose job is to provide the stored content/data. All the data is mounted on the server which is present in the data center. Each server has its own IP address. In the internet world IP address act as shipping address through which all information reaches its destination. The server holds a website and you can access it by knowing the server’s IP address. The Data is transferred through the optical fiber cable to the WIFI router, the data is light formed. The router converts its analog form. And through the WIFI we can access the data from the Data Center. And for the cellular network, the data is transferred from fiber optic cable in the light form to cell tower. Where it converts the data in form of an electromagnetic wave and then it is connected to a cell phone.
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