Things You Should Know About Data Center

What is data center?

Data center is a centralized location which houses computing and networking equipment of an IT organization for the purpose of collecting, storing, processing, distributing or allowing access to large amounts of data. It includes servers, storage, switches, routers and firewalls. 

Why Data Center Needed for the Business?

• High availability: Data center reduces down of data availability
• Data center supports virtualized networking, storage and computing
• Data center enables remote monitoring and management solutions to access server, network devices quickly and effectively. 
• Through data center infrastructure we can make data secure, reliable and easily accessible.

Data Center Types

1. Traditional Data Center

In the traditional data center, there are many servers in racks, and each of them performed different tasks, if redundancy required for managing critical applications, more servers are required for this task. 

2. Modular Data Center

A modular data center can be employed anywhere where data capacity is required. A modular data center architecture is a portable system of deploying data center environment. 

3. Cloud Data Center

Cloud provides a comprehensive array of IT services for migrating smooth and cost-effective into the era of cloud computing — end-to-end solutions that ensure efficiency, agility and honesty for your users, data, and applications.

Data Center Component 

• Servers and Racks
• Monitoring system
• Security System
• Precision air conditioning (PAC)/ climate control system
• Fire suppression / smoke detector
• Water leakage detection (WLD) system
• Power subsystems
• Uninterruptible power supplies
• Cooling systems backup generation.

Four Tier of Data Center 

• Tier 1 = Non-redundant capacity components with 99.671% uptime guarantee.
• Tier 2 = Tier 1 + Redundant capacity components with 99.741% uptime guarantee.
• Tier 3 = Tier 1 + Tier 2 + Dual-powered equipments and multiple uplinks with 99.982% uptime guarantee.
• Tier 4 = Tier 1 + Tier 2 + Tier 3 + all components are fully fault-tolerant including uplinks, storage, chillers, HVAC systems, servers etc. Everything is dual-powered with 99.995% uptime guarantee

From where you can get Data Center Services?

There are many companies who provide data center services, some companies have their own data center from where you can purchase space, or if you want to build your own data center then you can contact data center consultants, who can create new data center for you according to your requirement.