Understanding and Configuring Data Center Technologies

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- Tim Berners-Lee

A data center (DC) is a facility where an organization hosts all of its data and applications. This facility provides a means of centralizing the applications, thus providing better control over the management of the applications and the server infrastructure. Centralizing the important data and applications also simplifies the security of data and applications as the network administrators can focus on a single facility rather than discrete servers spread across the organization. The DC has evolved from the early days of computing to become highly ...

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