Chapter16

Data Centers

“Big data is at the foundation of all of the megatrends that are happening today, from social to mobile to the cloud to gaming.”

—Chris Lynch

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In this chapter, you will learn how to

Describe classic data center architecture and design

Describe modern data center architecture and design

Explain high availability concepts and procedures

Explain best practices for documentation in the data center

Ah, the data center—those mythical buildings that store all the data that powers our Internet sojourns. Virtually every public server—from Web, game, and e-mail servers, to DNS and certificate servers—sits in a data center, ...

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