Chapter . Data Centers
Store Once, Use Often
Data centers are centralized locations where companies house their business-critical network and server resources. Data centers provide secure centralization of corporate computing resources. Mainframes, application and web servers, Unified Communications services clusters, data storage, secure printers, Internet connectivity, and network core switches are examples of devices that are commonly located in the data center.
IT functions, such as network and server operations and support, generally sit near the data center. Satellite data centers provide regional services as well as disaster recovery for the primary data center. Having these resources centrally located provides administrative benefits but ...
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