What is a datacenter (or “data center,” which will be used interchangeably throughout the book)? It’s a fairly simple question at first blush to many IT professionals, but let’s start with proper definition of this term.
From a physical perspective, a datacenter is a facility used by various organizations to host their mission-critical data. Companies can invest in their own hardware and software resources, which will stay completely under their control, maintenance, and operation, or consume services ...
